TankovayaDiviziya
@TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world
- Comment on Maybe three towels 3 days ago:
She’s got that “the girl next door” vibe. She’s not sultry and seductive looking, but very beautiful in an innocent way.
- Comment on She only wanted the ring bros 3 days ago:
I’ve always thought about this should I get married and have kids some day.
- Comment on I refuse to let my 45 visa-free days in Vietnam run out without getting DP'ed for the first time. 4 days ago:
Is this an Onlyfans promotion?
- Comment on Miss me 4 days ago:
At least the earnings from the sales of lottery tickets go to charities.
- Comment on Miss me 6 days ago:
I remember in school doing statistics and probability. There was a question to calculate the probability and chances of winning a bet, and we got a near zero answer. I then asked my teacher if that means the person is actually going to lose. She confirmed yes, and warned us that this is why you have to be careful with gambling and being in debt as a result, and being involved with loans sharks who prey on those with gambling problems.
I’ve personally witnessed what gambling does to a person and their loved ones so I despise it. A lot of the gambling are rigged and so you are more likely to lose.
I tell people that if they’re going to gamble, do the ones with more likelihood of success. Poker is rarely rigged, if ever, because it is based on pure psychology of the players. Investing and stock trading has a more established science, despite the occasional stock manipulation. Although, if one invests in more reputable companies with long term growth and only put in the amount of money the person is willing to lose, hardly anybody goes bankrupt with investing.
- Comment on reuters.com 6 days ago:
So Aaron Schwartz was right not to trust Sam.
Also, isn’t this old news? His sister filed a lawsuit last year against him.
- Comment on AAA Dominance Is Eroding: 56% of PC Gaming Revenue Now Goes to Games Outside the Top 20 1 week ago:
Not only, buying £70 of a broken game om initial release.
- Comment on North America contains some of the longest continuous decididous forest records on the planet. 1 week ago:
If democracy is by the people, of the people, for the people-- does that mean people are pedophiles?
- Comment on Iran's shitposts were obliterated, too! 2 weeks ago:
Well like I said, Trump is stupid administratively, but he’s a good conman. Einstein might be good at physics, but he is the last person you would ask on ecology. So to repeat what I said in my original comment: there is no one type of intelligence. It’s not “just world” fallacy, one could argue that it’s “unjust world” fallacy for someone idiotic could con an entire world. To deny that happened is burying one’s head in the ground.
As it happens, Trump did squander his inheritance, but managed to claw back his fortune, first by money laundering for Russian mobsters, then by using his political office for personal gain. Fake it until you make it very much applies here.
It reinforces my point that he is not as stupid as he looks, still having been able to persuade and manipulate people despite having little to no resources. If you have seen the movie Catch Me if You Can, it does take certain skills to get away with so much scam.
Well, call me naïve, but they are pretty cautious around this kind of stuff in Germany, I doubt the US government has access to these kinds of records.
That’s fair enough. But Trump’s Project 2025 buddies have the intention to undermine Europe. Unfortunately, when America sneezes, everyone catches the cold.
- Comment on Iran's shitposts were obliterated, too! 2 weeks ago:
I used Putin as example because any sleazy jobs require the same Machiavellian instincts as with being a devious salesman. Not every dodgy salesman becomes millionaire or CEO with political leverage, because they may either happy with their gains or not ambitious enough and comfortable to remain in their stations. However, those ambitious enough beat their competition with ruthless efficiency. I’m sure there are hundreds of millionaires and billionaires who started as lowly deceptive salesman, but we just haven’t heard of them because they’re not publicly prominent.
Going back to Putin, it wasn’t really a chance on how he came to power. He was a colonel of one of the most feared spy agencies. I mean, what would you do with that much access to power if you are as ambitious as Putin? Sure, luck and happenstance also play key roles, but luck is a residue of preparation. Knowing how to take advantage of those lucky opportunities to forward own’s agenda takes certain skills to mobilise and pull the necessary levers.
A lot of people of dismiss the likes of Musk and Trump’s ability on how they got into power as being the result of being silver spooned. But people conveniently forget that it still requires knowledge, skills and experience to maintain the high status. Plenty of famous intergenerational wealthy families eventually lose their status because their descendants squander the fortunes handed to them. If Trump and Musk are stupid, they would be poor and not have gotten to the White House. So, they still have some intelligence but not about being empathetic.
I’m talking about in general on the anti-Trump camp as underestimating his stupidity. Authoritarian bodies eventually fall because of corruption and stupidity, but that’s not what is happening at the moment. The Trumpian America is just getting started and him and his cronies are smart enough on how to gain power and secure it. You may not be politically active, but they know already that you’re possibly anti-Trump because they took your social security details and other public records, and fed it into their surveillance system. Sorry to be so gloomy but I’m gonna be frank, they’re not stupid for having just robbed you, a nobody Lemmy while they are the ones in charge and spying on you.
I don’t know, I came from a former dictator run country and know how to call a spade a spade. So I will be blunt say Americans are still making heads or tails, on whether or not they are in a fascist state, because they never experienced what dictatorship is before. Constantly calling authoritarians stupid, while you and I are relying on supply chain run by them and could pressure us to conform, maybe we’re the stupid ones. Calling them stupid is coping for not accepting the fact that the inferiors outwitted us and manipulating our means of living.
- Comment on Iran's shitposts were obliterated, too! 2 weeks ago:
Putin wasn’t the only KGB colonel before he became the president of Russia. He had peers and were given equal footing as him. But he had proven to be more cunning and ruthless than them so he gained power.
There are those who started from the bottom, quite literally. Stalin was a pure thug who robbed banks for the Bolsheviks. He was also ridiculed for being intellectually inferior on the communist theory, especially by Lenin. And well, who lived until the ripe old age of 70, while the other was murdered in cold blood with an icepick?
I neglected to mention before and what I’m trying to say now, is to not underestimate the opponent. Once the person underestimates the opponent, is when that person loses. It’s the basic of art of war. I’m gonna be blunt, who is dumber? The person whose social security details were robbed in broad daylight, and that data is sold and fed to the private digital surveillance to train AI? It’s certainly not the dumb ketamine addicted CEO of a conglomerate of grifting companies, nor the dumb orange president who could push the red button at any notice. To think you and I are not dumb, whose details were already put into surveillance AI, are wishful thinking and coping.
Never underestimate the opposition.
- Comment on Iran's shitposts were obliterated, too! 2 weeks ago:
The mainstream should re-think what intelligence is because experts already said there are different types of intelligence. Are math prodigies with autism not intelligent? Are biologists dumb for struggling with quantum physics? That said, someone who may be unempathetic and lack emotional intelligence may have high intelligence on how to persuade and manipulate others. Many would call this Machiavellian (although personally, I don’t see Machiavellianism as inherently bad). It takes certain skill and intelligence to become a mob boss despite doing poorly in school, or even a leader of a country.
A lot on Lemmy scoffed it when I said Trump and other dictators are not as dumb as they might seem to be, because they ended up in charge, not someone on Lemmy with PhD. It possesses a certain kind of intelligence to be a demagogue and take power.
- Comment on Happy Easter Lemmy. 2 weeks ago:
You might be joking, but i think only the older folks will get the joke. After all, apparently, when Justin Timberlake was arrested for DUI, JT asked the police officer if he knows who he is. The police officer, being younger, unironically said “no”.
- Comment on Any day now 3 weeks ago:
It’s the libertarians and retails investors, who root for the ruthless billionaire-owned businesses they invested in, who say that.
- Comment on Asmeinkampf 3 weeks ago:
WoW raid experience doesn’t exactly translate to expert on international relations.
They learned that cooperation is perfect…to coordinate and conquer those who are deemed weaker.
- Comment on Is the "Gen z stare" a real thing? 3 weeks ago:
That’s not genz thing. That’s the hot potato method of where you drop the potato on the ground and don’t play the games the sociopath wants to play.
Yup, I have heard the same complaints about younger generations since the 1990s about Gen X, which are now passed on to us millenials. I’ve always heard the same old versus young fighting since I was a child.
- Comment on Anti-Brexit protesters in front of the Big Ben. 3 weeks ago:
The UK has to adopt the euro, for one.
- Comment on Human experimentation, one way or the other. 5 weeks ago:
I feel like the antivaxxers are more concentrated in the developed north because of privileges; from having better access to healthcare, better economy, and less prevalence of deadlier diseases because of colder climate. So they get treatment more easily if they need one, and don’t see nasty diseases. Meanwhile, the global south tend to believe more in vaccinations because diseases in warmer climate are more common and deadlier.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
It’s mandatory to use calculators in my field to make calculations, so that has been saving me.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
I won’t go too specific but my background is in biotech.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
I already work on STEM, without the E, but a little bit of M.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
I am Asian 😂 I refuse to live up to the stereotype!
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
I’m too dumb for maths because I have dyscalculia, but i am always amazed by the engineering crowd on how they could improve efficiency by finding and tweaking just the little things.
- Comment on Unconventional strategy. 5 weeks ago:
So two state solution?
- Comment on Why conservative men repeatedly crash Grindr 5 weeks ago:
We’re making fun of conservatives being hypocrites and idiots. Like, how it’s not racist to make fun of MAGA immigrants voting for Trump and then being deported.
- Comment on German man says american are savages 5 weeks ago:
His jokes about Germany and being German gets repetitive, but i can’t deny that he still makes me laugh everytime!
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
AI written works are also so stupid. It feels soulless. Indeed, I think authors could command premium for royalty and copyright because human written literature will be priceless.
- Comment on Nuclear energy enjoyers vindicated again after the rise in oil and gas prices. 5 weeks ago:
Nuclear is the lesser evil. Even my former boss who is an environmental scientist agree we should still maintain nuclear power plants, but only as stop gap before renewable energy becomes more ubiquitous.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
This is why I love videogames instead.
- Comment on Fascism bad. 1 month ago:
Kinda like they refuse to admit we all came from Africa and and thus our ancestors are black.