Stellula
1mo ago
I agree with you, but just to make the case: could the person living in the UK be drafted into the US military in a war?
Stellula
1mo ago
Without getting into describing how to make an explosive out of a battery...a LiPo won't make an explosion, just a big fire.
Stellula
1mo ago
What would you check for? I’m pretty electronics literate (simple PCB designs, simple circuit designs, lots of IC use) and I’d have no idea what I was even looking for.
Stellula
1mo ago
People keep saying this as if it's gospel, but it's based on a tweet where he was being critical of Trump. The format basically being "I thought you were different man but it turns out you were a fraud this whole time! I voted for you in 2016 because I didn't think you were a total complete fraud but it turns out you a fraud and always have been and people should vote for my lord and savior, Kamala Harris! Or he Republicans, you should support Nikki Haley!"
People lie. Especially delusional people on the internet when they're trying to push an agenda may lie about things like who they voted for 8 years ago.
Meanwhile he's been donating to Democrats since 2012, has Kamala stickers on his truck, and obviously champions Democrat causes.
It's an absurd level of cope to try and claim that the guy who has been donating to Democrats, litearlly volunterring in Ukraine, putting Democrat stickers on his car, and trying to murder Donald Trump is somehow mysteriously a Trump voter.
Stellula
1mo ago
Why you want rail for Kalashnikov? Is not good enough as procured from Izhevsk Mechanical Works? You think needs improvement? Then maybe you find job with army of Russia! You have drinks with Mikhail Kalashnikov, trade story of many weapons designed and details of school for engineering!
Or maybe you not do this. Probably is because you never design weapon in whole life. You look at fine Russian rifle, think it need crazy shit stick on all sides of weapon. You have disease of American capitalist, change thing that is fine for no reason except to look different from comrade. You put cheap flashlight of Chinese slave factory on one side, you put bad scope of American middle west on other side, you put front pistol grip on bottom so you are like American movie guy John Rambo. Maybe you put sex dildo on top to fuck yourself in asshole for making shameful travesty of rifle of Mikhail Kalashnikov, no?
Rifle is fine. You fuck it, it only get heavy and you still no hit largest side of barn. Go to firing range, practice with many magazine of cartridge. Then you not need dumb shit put on side of rifle.
(Mods plz no ban this isn't even the active thread anymore)
Stellula
1mo ago
Trump has repeatedly said that, if elected, he will negotiate an end to the war before he even takes office.
Presumably what this means is telling Ukraine they get no more assistance until they agree to a truce.
Stellula
1mo ago
So far Ukrainian and Ukrainian inspired terrorism has: attempted to assassinate a US presidential nominee, attempted and nearly assassinated a European Prime Minister, blown up a major piece of German infrastructure causing serious damage to their economy.
Also: lied about Russia shooting a missile into a Poland in a very obvious attempt to grow their war into WW3 by dragging NATO into it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_missile_explosion_in_Poland?useskin=vector
(It was a Ukrainian missile)
Stellula
1mo ago
Trump has been pretty vocal about ending the war. I’d go as far as saying it’s one of his main talking points.
Frankly I’m surprised there hasn’t been more of this.
I mean no offense here but some random “they them” with 700 followers and a rainbow flag in their name doesn’t seem like an official spokesthem for the Ukrainian military[1]. Here’s another equally uncredible person saying the opposite: https://x.com/raheemkassam/status/1835440928074736007
Also your first link had like 10 different redirects and popups and stuff. Here is just a direct link: https://x.com/v8mile/status/1804097069876916506
[1]: what I mean is that this person seems focused on some sort of gender crusade. An equivalent would be linking me to a page dedicated to the San Francisco 49ers football team, but that wants to talk authoritatively on Iranian nuclear policy.
Stellula
1mo ago
It looks like this guy served in the Ukrainian military.
What should I, an American citizen, make of that? A presidential candidate is trying to end their war, and one of their soldiers shows up here to try and kill him?
What in the hell?
Stellula
1mo ago
Press conference happening now: https://youtube.com/watch?v=2W1Yi_Np64U
some live thoughts:
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They found the vehicle because an eyewitness got the plate of the shooter (how TF is there not a least 1 drone orbiting wherever Trump is literally at all times??)
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Guy is in custody and alive
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Witnessed ID'd the guy
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In the bushes where the guy was was an AK with a scope, a gopro, and ceramic plates.
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SS spotted the guy before Tump was actually near him and engaged him first.
Stellula
2mo ago
wasted equipment
This idea is just fundamentally incompatible with my morals. Where does this lead?
Just about everything about your life is a “waste of resources”…but human life is valuable.
If you have a heart attack and need an ambulance to take you to the hospital, isn’t it a waste of diesel, and an inconvenience to everybody having to wait for the ambulance to go through lights?
Stellula
2mo ago
Abortion is in my mind due to the debate last night which has led me to this article:
The state recorded eight deaths among infants who survived abortion attempts during Tim Walz’s tenure as governor.
The gist is: in Minnesota, if a baby was born you were required to care for it to keep it alive. Sometimes an abortion would result in a living baby being born, and doctors were required to give that baby supportive care (they were likely premature, so wouldn’t necessarily survive, although premature babies born wrong 23 weeks survive frequently, that said none of the cited instances of this led to a baby surviving).
In 2019 this was changed to allow doctors to let a baby sit there until it just dies on its own.
Here’s some thoughts about this:
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At the point where this is even a question, you’re clearly talking about a living human being.
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Simply ignoring a baby until they die is the way that infanticide (usually killing baby girls) is done all over the world
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This is another instance of “conservative politician says something that gets immediately ‘fact checked’, but it turns out is at least directionally and likely just literally true.
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We should be caring for living human babies whether the mother wants to kill them or not. “Oops I meant to kill it before I could see it out here in the world” is not a valid excuse.
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If anything the fact that there were so many cases of this in a single state in such a small period of time moves my needle even further towards being aggressively anti abortion, up to jailing the doctors doing this and charging them with murder.
Stellula
2mo ago
Who do you think is unfamiliar with this story? My extremely normie family members I was with this week were all talking about this.
People are acting like normies arent all on Facebook sharing shitty memes all day.
Stellula
2mo ago
Recently "hell" and "damn" have become a way for politicians to signal anger. It's really annoying.
Stellula
2mo ago
I hate blaming the refs, but it is extremely annoying that the moderators want to """fact check""" Trump but not Kamala.
Stellula
2mo ago
I think the tempering is because he was shot in the face about 2 months ago.
People are trying to kill him. He avoided death by about a centimeter.
I think that’s what caused the mood shift.
0% tax rate for people with 3 or more children.
The ultra wealthy would game this to pay no taxes, which would also make 3+ families a sort of status indicator.
The main goal is making it high status to have kids. It honestly seems like this is already starting.
On immediate material things: tax breaks for “pro kid” businesses. If you are a restaurant, bar, coffee shop, etc. with a dedicated area for children to play, you get a tax break.
A paramilitary force to aggressively remove drug addicts and anti socials from child spaces like parks and playgrounds.
Death penalty for child abusers and child traffickers (as a social signal that we care about kids)
I will say until the end of time that the most politically brilliant thing Biden could have done was to immediately pardon everybody involved in J6, commit to blanket pardoning Trump for any stupid bullshit anybody tried, and leaned hard into national unity.
If he had done that, even with the rest of the woke bullshit, I’d probably be campaigning for him right now. Instead we got pseudo angry grandpa, endless lawfare, and more endless division presented as unity.
Stellula
2mo ago
Are there any other industries that AI has really had an effect on aside from coding and graphic design? Search maybe?
I use it daily for these tasks and I think most people like me do, but are there other industries like this?
Stellula
3mo ago
Do you realize that Elon Musk has absolute domain expertise in several, unrelated engineering disciplines (aerospace, rocket engine design, electric vehicle design and integration, and manufacturing for all of these), and that before he got started in his current arc he had domain expertise in several other unrelated engineering and regulatory disciples (software and banking regulation)?
Stellula
3mo ago
She’s is to white women what The Beatles are to redditors/college freshmen men.
Imagine no religion
Its easy if you try
Wow poetry.
Stellula
3mo ago
I think you answered your own question.
The republicans don’t do a good job of communicating this.
Look at people like Elon Musk, though. You can see about the time he started believing this (about when his son was victimized by it), and the effect it had on him. I choose him because he is very public, but I think every parent has friends who have gone through the same transition.
It’s the conservative version of getting “woke” (the original meaning before it became an insult - basically becoming aware of something which radically shifted your perception in one direction)
Okay I’ll respond here and say: my drivers license or any of my “documents” would be among the last things I would think to grab. I’d want:
Kids/wife/debit card
Hardware authenticators (irreplaceable)
Laptop
Gun
“Survival” stuff like a fishing rod and a water filter and some lighters.
I realize this makes me very stupid, and this event has made me reevaluate my thoughts. For instance if I lost ALL of my “documents”, could I reconstruct them? My intuition says: yes, easily. Just “steal” my own identity. I have my DL# and SSN memorized. I know my full name, DOB, all of my addresses, employment history, etc.
What would it actually take, I wonder?
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