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- Comment on Lots of blood these days. 9 hours ago:
- Comment on (serious) What would we be losing in a world where most people didn't own a car? Please read the OP before posting. 9 hours ago:
Well, like I said, I honestly think public transit doesn’t make very much sense for remote areas. I think it makes far more sense to give people the types of transportation that work best for their use case, and in remote areas: that’s cars.
- Comment on Lots of blood these days. 10 hours ago:
- Comment on (serious) What would we be losing in a world where most people didn't own a car? Please read the OP before posting. 10 hours ago:
Especially since public transit is usually locally funded (at least in the US), in areas like this the tax base doesn’t exist to be able to functionally fund public transit. We could need to completely rethink and re-organize how public transit is funded and rolled out for this to functionally work in remote areas.
Or, you know, we could continue lettings cars be a thing for remote populations kind of like how in some far northern territories people use snowmobiles to get around part of the year because there’s simply too much snow to try to use another type of vehicle at all.
I think the latter, having specific types of transportation still be a thing in places where they’re needed makes a lot more sense, honestly.
- Comment on Lots of blood these days. 10 hours ago:
US Military: Blood for the Blood God!
- Comment on In the Green Zone 1 day ago:
We have bases still in Iraq, but we fucked up so bad there that major troop withdrawal was done at the end of 2011. Obama tried to keep our troops there longer, but the Iraqi government basically kicked us the fuck out, and we only had 500 soldiers there as of December 2011.
We still have a presence there, but based on cursory research, it’s shared space, like Balad AFB which houses the Iraqi military’s F-16 squadron as well as US personnel. Al Asad Air Base has US personnel from four divisions of the armed forces, and there are Danish soldiers stationed there as well, and it seems one of the main uses of the base is the continued training of Iraqi soldiers. There may be more in Iraq, but they are smaller and likely short-term use.
An amount of US soldiers were deployed all over the middle east starting in 2014 as a support role in the overarching war against the Islamic State (ISIL), but they had been brought in as a support network for Iraq defending itself from ISIL after ISIL made significant successes in Iraq in 2014. Seems like there’s only about 2,500 US personnel in Iraq all told since the end of 2021, and that was from agreements Biden organized for a continued US presence with an advisory and training role for US soldiers.
- Comment on In the Green Zone 1 day ago:
We actually were deployed to Afghanistan by October 2001.
Also we were in Iraq until 2011 and in Afghanistan until 2021.
So while the gap between 2001 and 2026 seems large, its actually only been five years since we ended occupation of Afghanistan.
- Comment on Stellar Blade 2 May Not Be Published by Sony, As Shift Up Strengthens Its Capabilities As A Multiplatform Publisher 1 day ago:
So glad
Stellar BladeGoonerstorm 2 will be more widely available to legitimize chuds claiming they need unrealistically proportioned half naked women to enjoy a game and that anything less is “woke nonsense.” - Comment on In the Green Zone 1 day ago:
Pretty sure September ended on September 10th, 2001.
- Comment on AI Bros Wanted Trump. Now They Learn What Happens When You Tell Him No. 1 day ago:
Even worse than my initial understanding of it. Of course. These people are fucking wild.
- Comment on In the Green Zone 1 day ago:
What’s really wild is it’s almost 23 years on the nose since the war in Iraq started on March 20th, 2003.
At least Bush and the military apparatus at the time was willing to at least pretend they had legitimacy by calling it “Operation Iraqi Freedom” whereas “Operation Epic Fury” just describes Trump throwing ketchup covered plates at the wall because he’s an irrationally angry bitch baby.
- Comment on AI Bros Wanted Trump. Now They Learn What Happens When You Tell Him No. 1 day ago:
Also, important to remember the distinction here. This was all because the only aspect Anthropic was actually against was AI being allowed to make kill decisions. They are fine with the DOD using their AI tech, just not fine with AI making kill decisions. So it’s not like they were saying “no, you can’t use our tech at all.”. Anthropic AI is definitely still in use by the US government… Just not using it for AI to make decisions on who to kill.
I mean… imho that’s a distinction without a difference. Sure a human will have the final say, but they will be working from what the AI produced, which could be hallucinated and unless the human checks the output against the actual evidence, they will just sign off on a kill order from hallucinated AI “analysis.”
- Comment on RIP Bozo 2 days ago:
Looks pretty aligned to the original to me.
- Comment on A joyful reminder 3 days ago:
- Comment on A joyful reminder 3 days ago:
- Comment on I am an amateur propagandist. A hobbyist. Enthusiast, if you will. 3 days ago:
You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. You must be cautious.
- Comment on I am an amateur propagandist. A hobbyist. Enthusiast, if you will. 3 days ago:
I won’t dispute your lived experience, I just know that I have read about families with prior military service being more likely to have children who similarly prioritize service. Thanks for being a support for them.
- Comment on I am an amateur propagandist. A hobbyist. Enthusiast, if you will. 3 days ago:
Fixed it for you.
- Comment on I am an amateur propagandist. A hobbyist. Enthusiast, if you will. 3 days ago:
The one small consolation is that we don’t have a military draft, and most young people who pursue the miilitary either have a family with military service background. However, the other largest cohort are young people with no family support structures at all, so they give their lives to the war machine to try to do things like get an education.
Still, people choosing to enter military service is way down and more US citizens than ever fail to meet the fitness standards and requirements.
So, it’s not really “your kids” unless you chose to push them to military service or were such a bad/absent/dead parent that they had few other choices.
Now, if they try re-instating the draft, than this meme will be a lot more accurate.
This of course is not meant to minimize how insane this push for war is, nor how damaging it will be to those who are in military service, for whom this meme is very accurate.
- Comment on women 4 days ago:
- Comment on accused of being a man pretending to be a woman, CCP incel, ragebaiter, let know i've been blocked... but i'll keep going on here🫶 4 days ago:
Technically, you are a ragebaiter if people are enraged by what you post, even if you didn’t intend it as ragebait. Simply because you succeeded in getting people enraged. It’s annoying and stupid, but you could also just wear the ragebaiter badge with pride, knowing that you existing and being you pisses people off. No higher honor, in my opinion, than the spiteful existence.
- Comment on 4 days ago:
Attitudes like this is why people reverse engineer systems and build emulators.
To an extent I understand why Miyazaki and Sony felt they shouldn’t let outsiders mess with it lest it was an underbaked and bad remake, but at the same time, it’s locking the game to a historical artifact, and one that many people (including myself) had hoped to one day play on PC without using an emulator.
- Comment on that's just science 4 days ago:
The UK says it’s A-OK!
…as long as it’s real life and not porn.
- Comment on Jason Schreier says Sony is backing away from putting single player games on PC 5 days ago:
Even if they cannot hoard that much themselves, anything they hoard will contribute to the death of the PC space and I don’t think Sony is just going to let their consumer electronics division, which has been a huge part of their brand for decades, go quietly into that good night. They might not have as much money to spend on it, but they’re not going to just stop making PS5s and other consumer electronics devices. That also means that if there’s PC hardware shortages for the foreseeable future, that they’re waiting for those shortages to strangle the PC gaming industry and revert a lot of those PC gaming converts back to console.
- Comment on 5 days ago:
quadra baybeeee
- Comment on Jason Schreier says Sony is backing away from putting single player games on PC 5 days ago:
My guess is they’re watching the PC parts supply issues due to AI and have decided they will use their institutional weight to also hoard parts to push consoles back to the forefront since it’s harder to pirate on consoles and easier to resell the same game on new console generations.
Sony is and has been a big institutional player and I would not be at all surprised to see them moving on hoarding parts themselves.
- Comment on Classics 5 days ago:
What I came to ask. He should be here.
- Comment on me btw 6 days ago:
I fucking love the default video. Classic.
- Comment on "You look great! How'd you lose all the weight?" "Ozempic helped." 6 days ago:
“This too shall pass.”
- Comment on "You look great! How'd you lose all the weight?" "Ozempic helped." 6 days ago:
So is this just like Olestra all over again? It technically works but you get explosive greasy shits?
