TranscendentalEmpire
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- Comment on Get ya every time 3 days ago:
Yeah, Giáp is undeniably one of the greatest minds in modern military history. Not only did he defeat some of the most powerful militaries in the world, he did so in strategically different positions.
I can’t think of another commander who excelled against an occupying force as an insurgent, was successful in counter insurgency, and defeated a better armed opponent in a head to head battle.
You’re totally right, if America had a general as successful everything in the US military would be named after them, we’d never hear the end of it.
- Comment on Get ya every time 3 days ago:
Feel like this is really belittling to the VC and PAVN, the Ho Chi Minh trail is rightfully known as one of the greatest achievements of military engineering in the 20th century.
The North Vietnamese military didn’t win because America was just that incompetent, they had arguably a couple of the best generals in modern history. I mean they defended against the armies of France, America, cambodia and China within a couple decades.
- Comment on Special Forces blocked 2,000 credible asylum claims from Afghan commandos, Ministry of Defence confirms. 3 days ago:
Man UK conservatives want to be American politicians soo bad.
- Comment on What keeps Americans from being mad about the state of their country? 4 days ago:
Lol, and what are you doing besides belittling other progressive people on the Internet?
What would you suggest we all do that were not already doing? Or are you just going to continue to only respond via virtue signaling?
- Comment on What keeps Americans from being mad about the state of their country? 4 days ago:
don’t scare me and you have failed in your attempt to discourage
At what point did I try to scare you? I’m just trying to make you realize that people are upset, they just don’t see a lot of options to do anything about it.
You complaining on the Internet is not doing anything more than any other american currently upset at the government. Trying to posture yourself as some warrior of justice from your computer chair doesn’t validate belittling other people’s feelings on the matter.
Once again I ask, what makes you think you are any more upset than anyone else? What actions have you committed that makes your anger more real than others?
- Comment on What keeps Americans from being mad about the state of their country? 4 days ago:
By doing? The government doesn’t care about protest, and anything more extreme than protest is met with extreme violence.
What actions are you doing that validates your superior sense of self worth?
- Comment on At this rate, why not. 1 week ago:
Thanks, that makes things make a bit more sense.
- Comment on At this rate, why not. 1 week ago:
There is no crazy difference. If water can get to the rocks, so can the dissolved CO2.
Oh, I was just pondering the efficiency. If Co2 is held in suspension and only the top layer of sediment is going to be exposed to the carbon in the water, and not to a degree of co2 more concentrated than normal.
- Comment on At this rate, why not. 1 week ago:
Do you know if Co2 that dissolves into water is less buoyant, or is it held in suspension? Or is this relying on the sediment being suspended in the ocean for a while before being deposited back on the ocean floor?
- Comment on At this rate, why not. 1 week ago:
And does ERW work if the pulverized rock is in a big pile on the sea floor? Or would we have to dig the highly radioactive area up and spread it around the surface?
Yeah… Doesn’t the carbon sequestering happen from rain absorbing carbon in the atmosphere and then attaching to the rock to mineralize it? Something tells me 6-7 km of ocean might impede that process.
And does the radioactive water truly stay at the site of the explosion? Or will it be spread through the entire ocean via currents?
Dilution is the solution…ocean big?
- Comment on No beans, only dogs 2 weeks ago:
What do they sell during Honkbal Hoofdklasse?
- Comment on It really is like this 3 weeks ago:
I mean yeah… Far right is kinda a big part of distinguishing authoritarian left vs authoritarian right. I think the only way you could possibly conflate the two is by ignoring economics.
- Comment on We appreciate your community service. 3 weeks ago:
When I bought my house it had been abandoned for years, so I had to remodel the whole thing. When I built the counters and cabinets I accidentally built everything based on my height, so everything in the house is a good 3-4 inches higher than most houses. Everything looks fine and works fine for me, but I have to get a lot of things down for the wife, and we have to have a couple different steps stools around.
- Comment on The basics should be affordable. Yes even eggs. 4 weeks ago:
Well you see…it’s because we as a people reverse financed happiness. The previous generations spent all their good times, so they leveraged the promise of future generation’s fun to subsidize their own fun.
Then later generations whos fun was used as leverage decided they also would like a little fun decided to once again to borrow against an already leveraged future generation’s happiness to supplement their own.
Unfortunately you can only borrow against the future fun for so long before you are only able to finance happiness with subprime fun loans. Climate change is affecting the speculative value of happiness futures which has caused the happiness bank to seize any fun collateral we had left.
- Comment on From during the Tiktok ban 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, also… Relying on social media of any type to get a realistic depiction of an entire country is really really dumb.
Imagine if you moved to America because of Instagram, thinking everyone here did nothing but travel and thirst post.
Social media app users are primarily middle/upper class millennials and younger. You know the people most isolated from the general public and not in charge of anything.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
My condolences, dealing with shitty parents is always hell. He sounds like a real piece of shit.
My partner’s father has a similar second family scenario going on still and he’s like in his late 70s. Never understood how these dudes found the energy to be that much of an asshole.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Ouch, would have imagined they had already separated. This screams divorced man energy.
- Comment on Disappointed. Immeasurably. 4 weeks ago:
Ain’t nobody got any time for that. Imo smokers are overrated for the amount of time and effort you have to deal with them.
If I want to do a fancy steak I’ll usually just do a sous vide.
- Comment on Disappointed. Immeasurably. 4 weeks ago:
Yeap, kinda the epiphany on my end. Had a steak I was wanting to reverse sear but already had the oven set for something else. Figured the air fryer was just a fancy oven and gave it a shot. Steak came out better than normal and have been doing it ever since.
I haven’t tried finishing it in the air fryer yet, been worried it might not sear correctly since it’s not getting direct heat.
- Comment on Disappointed. Immeasurably. 4 weeks ago:
It’s actually really good for a reverse sear. The air circulates at a more even temp than a regular oven and can be kept at a nice low consistent heat.
Just pop it in the air fryer at 250f and bring the steak 10 degrees from your desired cooking temp and then finish it off on some cast iron.
- Comment on Is Soviet playground! Is fun! Go play on playground while Papa reads Pushkin. 5 weeks ago:
Kinda looks like it once had a layer of sheet metal attached to it at one point.
- Comment on James Gunn's Superman | Official Teaser Trailer 1 month ago:
Eh, I mean I generally think the whole old actor and young actress trope is creepy as well. I just never would have thought the guy playing Superman was in his thirties, he just looks babyfaced to me.
I also was under the impression that this was going to be more of an origins story, with Clark making his way to the big city kinda thing, but that may have been a misconception on my part.
- Comment on James Gunn's Superman | Official Teaser Trailer 2 months ago:
Idk about the casting in this… Superman looks like he’s in his early 20’s and Louis looks like she’s in her mid 30s. I don’t mind either actors individually, but together it just seems like an odd pairing.
I feel like the reverse would be kinda creepy, like if Superman was in his mid 30’s trying to pick up a Lois as a fresh out of school intern at the daily planet.
- Comment on Black Myth: Wukong producer on The Game Awards top prize snub: "I came all the way here for nothing!" 2 months ago:
You are so sensitive to immediately tell someone to F off which screams American.
Lol, have you been to East Asia? Getting told to fuck off isn’t exactly a hard thing to provoke in Asia, it’s not something that only happens in America.
You claim yourself as Chinese which means you know best about all Chinese culture right? Which is such a common Chinese xenophobic tactic.
Almost as common as white people explaining Asian culture to Asians on this social media platform. I’ve been lectured to about my own culture by European and Americans who have never left their own countries.
But at the same time you’re so disconnected from your own culture you feel the need to share you and your own parents ethnicity
My dude… Your ethnicity doesn’t change just because your parents migrated to another location. The fact that you can’t recognize stripping someone’s ethnicity away from someone because they weren’t born in there families homeland is just another form of forced assimilation, and is incredibly racist.
mandarin in university level ABC
Again, utilizing an acronym to other delineate someone from their ethnic heritage is disgusting. Especially considering that I doubt you’ve ever had to deal with navigating the social stratification of being an immigrant.
Accosting a Chinese person for not being Chinese enough is just about the most 4d chess move of racism a white dude can pull off. Congrats.
- Comment on Moderation not keeping up with influx of violent rhetoric following the assassination of the UHC CEO. 2 months ago:
Why? No one is inciting violence, commissioning violence, or even inciting hatred.
Hoping something bad happens to a person you dislike is not the same as an actionable threat. Celebrating something bad happening to someone for the actions they committed isn’t incitement. That’s just a consequence of the person’s actions. CEOs are not a protected group of people, it’s just a job title.
I don’t really see anyone getting in actual legal trouble, I think you’re just clutching at pearls for no particular reason.
- Comment on Standoff 2 months ago:
If you like fantasy the series Empire in Black and Gold by Adrian Tchaikovsky is basically that concept in book form.
- Comment on Joe 3:16 2 months ago:
amphetamine promotes dopamine release, it doesn’t inhibit reuptake.
Amphetamines are also DRI…
“The following are a selection of some particularly notably abused DRIs: cocaine, ketamine, MDPV, naphyrone, and phencyclidine (PCP). Amphetamines, including amphetamine, methamphetamine, MDMA, cathinone, methcathinone, mephedrone, and methylone, are all DRIs as well, but are distinct in that they also behave, potentially more potently, as dopamine releasing agents (DRAs)”
Amphetamines are dopamine releasing agents, but they also affect dopamine re-uptake.
- Comment on Joe 3:16 2 months ago:
I mean, coke is basically an amphetamine with a shittier half life. They’re both stimulants with a dopamine re-uptake inhibitors.
Coke is just the shittier and less ethically sourced option.
- Comment on Thought-provoking 2 months ago:
Oh, nope. Rereading it, you’re totally right. Just a little of my dyslexia seeping in lol. My bad!
- Comment on Thought-provoking 2 months ago:
Yeah, and helping feed people wasn’t exactly his original motivation for the haber-bosch process either. During the late 19th century empires were running low on natural sources of nitrates for making gun powder, as the British had held a near monopoly of the guano mines in South America and India.
Judging by this, his time as an artillery man for the prussians, his combustion research after he finished the haber process, and his over all obsession with creating weapons of war… It’s pretty safe to assume fertilizer was an afterthought.