Saleh
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- Comment on Welcome to the Labour police state 37 minutes ago:
Yes yes. We do a big police deathmatch between the US and UK. All the cops of both countries in one huge brawl. Whoever comes out alive gets the trophy and a twenty dollar gift card for a Fast Food restaurant of their choice.
- Comment on The Mayor of Calgary, Canada, just received this letter 10 hours ago:
You don’t need to know anything about Alberta or the region. This is just how politicians talk.
If this was about honest concerns he would have addressed why the city plans to build bike lanes. Instead he just talks about “tax dollars” and increasing capacity for “all citizens”. Which shows that he has a complete disregard for the existence of citizens who do not take a car for every small move.
- Comment on Is anyone else not feeling that patriotic for July 4? 2 days ago:
Countries as a whole? That is difficult to say. Typically you won’t here much from such countries, as they don’t enforce themselves on others.
- Comment on Is anyone else not feeling that patriotic for July 4? 2 days ago:
Not necessarily. Problem is when patriotism is not defined positively through your countries achievments and striving for self improvement, but through negativity to other people.
The US patriotism evidently revolves around the latter, so does most patriotism i have witnessed in European countries. I cant speak for so many other countries as i havent visited them enough.
- Comment on RIP America 3 days ago:
The Islamic golden age ended because of centuries of European crusades followed by the mongol invasion. It had little to do with a lack of appreciation for science and scientists.
But there is only so much scholars can do, when under relentless attacks by barbarians.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_Golden_Age
This period is traditionally understood to have begun during the reign of the Abbasid caliph Harun al-Rashid (786 to 809) with the inauguration of the House of Wisdom, which saw scholars from all over the Muslim world flock to Baghdad, the world’s largest city at the time, to translate the known world’s classical knowledge into Arabic and Persian.[4] The period is traditionally said to have ended with the collapse of the Abbasid caliphate due to Mongol invasions and the Siege of Baghdad in 1258.
- Comment on Just keep typing, wage slaves 4 days ago:
No they did not do the right thing. The right thin would have been to come up with the plan to fix the whole thing immediately and then communicate it to potentially affected people and organizations, especially the employees working in that building or buildings that would be destroyed in a collapse.
It is completely unacceptable to omit life threatening danger from people and “face saving” and also likely “cost saving” by not having to rent other office space to stay in until the corrective measures were taken, were put over the life’s of thousands of people.
- Comment on All hail the immortal cleanse 5 days ago:
As an engineer i can tell you that a building being made of concrete and steel in no way indicates it to be safeguarded against fire. With how combustible a lot of interior has become over the past century, it can still turn into a flame engulfed hellhole, unless a high level of fire protection was achieved with proper firewalls and seals, containment design, extinguishing measures etc.
If you subject steel directly or rebar concrete to heat for a long time, the structural integrity will be permanently lowered, often requiring a building to be demolished and rebuilt after a larger fire.
- Comment on Anon loves The Lord of the Rings 1 week ago:
I have been watching LOTR at least once a year when i was younger.
There used to be a LOTR marathon for the easter weekend on one private TV channel in Germany for at least a decade.
Spin off video games like the battle for middle earth have been hugely popular among my friends
The movies are ranked 6, 9 and 12 place in the imdb top list. No other triology comes close.
It will be hard to find a media IP that is as generations defining as LOTR.
At the end of the day it is also one of the last “great stories” an arc of the epic battle between good and evil that is executed well and not just a self referential pile of dung like all the superhero IPs.
- Comment on Anon loves The Lord of the Rings 1 week ago:
NMS looks pretty good though.
Or maybe i am just a bit dated with my expectations.
- Comment on Bernie Sanders says that if AI makes us so productive, we should get a 4-day work week 1 week ago:
My argument is that a lot of what we consider “productive” actually is not at the consumption for which it is produced isn’t intrinsic, but artificially induced to produce more. Production became its own end under Capitalism rather than a mean to satisfy needs.
Also we need to consider, see the farming example, how much we currently buy instead of do ourselves for a lack of time and energy. As for the risk of starvation if it wasnt for modern means of agriculture i disagree in part. In many industrialized countries the majority of agricultural land use is for animal farming. Aside from being destructive to the environment and climate, the overconsumption of meat leads to more diseases like colon cancer.
With your example of internet, how much bandwidth is used to feed people advertisement so they consume more? How much computing hardware is wasted on LLMs and other slop?
Capitalism is self reinforcing. Once you break the cycle you start seeing how much of it just goes to reproduce the capitalist system, rather than serve any human needs.
- Comment on Bernie Sanders says that if AI makes us so productive, we should get a 4-day work week 1 week ago:
However, a decrease in productivity means that stuff like clothes, transport, food, IT services, and pretty much everything you can think of that someone has to produce becomes more scarce.
Would not having 30 dresses make you unhappier, if you have time to spend doing things you enjoy instead of consumption being the only thing you have to show for all the time you spend at work?
How much transportation is actually what we need for living and how much is induced by being forced to go to work?
Food has the amazing ability to just grow with limited human intervention, so there is no reason to assume a reduction in food availability. Also with more free time people could tend to a small garden for some of their food more easily.
IT services… You are on a platform run by volunteers in their free time. More free time would mean more of such services available.
Capitalism has outpaced “intrinsic” consumption since at least a hundred years in the industrialized nations. Most consumption is induced by advertisment and social pressure manipulating us to consume more, so we work more, so we consume more, so the rich can extract more wealth in every cycle for themselves. You cannot separate wealth distribution, scarcity and work time from each other.
For the average people i’d wager the available goods and services wouldn’t change much, as the people who make goods and services exclusive to the super rich like yachts would be producing other goods instead.
- Comment on Chickenslap 1 week ago:
I think we should put more consideration into the fact that slapping the chicken this much will dissipate a lot of energy into deforming the chicken.
- Comment on Restricted data once again leaked on War Thunder forums 1 week ago:
Gajin was founded in Russia and only moved offices to Hungary in 2015.
Giving a temporary ban reserves plausible deniability while keeping the honeypot open.
- Comment on America last night 1 week ago:
There is three major “theaters” right now:
- Eastern Europe (Ukraine)
- West Asia (Middle East)
- East Asia
The US already moved multiple ships from East Asia to facilitate the attacks on Iran. If Iran responds by retaliating against US based in the region, the US will probably commit large amounts of forces and get itself into another Iraq/Afghanistan style situation.
This removes US forces and restocking capabilities from East Asia. Now China can expand itself in that region, which the US had thought to contain by its military presence.
The US has been trying to “pivot” out of West Asia into East Asia for over a decade now. This also explains Israels attacks on Iran now in an attempt to force the US to maintain focused on the region. Think of it like the older child throwing tantrums when their younger sibling is getting more attention.
- Comment on Just one more 1 week ago:
The claim was that everything was copied horizontally, which is evidently not the case in the picture. Also as i have linked the widest “freeway” in the US has even more lanes.
Thank you for posting the article. As you can read in the article they prove the fact that the image is altered by pointing out the number of lanes being wrong, not by “suspicious patterns” in the cars.
The claim that the image was just doubled horizontally simply does not check out. There was more effort put into creating the fake.
- Comment on Just one more 1 week ago:
Where?
- Comment on wtf 1 week ago:
We are certainly not their prey and without modern urban sprawl forcing animals into urbanized areas they would avoid humans as much as possible and this has been true for thousands of years.
Humans are the ones wielding fire after all.
- Comment on Again and Again and Again and..... 1 week ago:
Equating Iran and Al-Qaeda and more generally categorizing all “brown people” as more or less the same is like saying Guatemala is “they” with the US because they are on the same continent.
- Comment on The Elder God 1 week ago:
The politicians running the show and most of their voters are old enough to remember. Young people play less and less of a role in western politics.
- Comment on Again and Again and Again and..... 1 week ago:
Who is “they”? the 9/11 attack was committed by mostly Saudi nationals under leadership of the (former) CIA assets Osama bin Laden (also Saudi).
You know which country the US didn’t attack in its “war on terror”? Saudi Arabia.
Instead the US attacked / attacked in: Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Syria, Yemen, Somalia, Libya
- Comment on America last night 1 week ago:
Well guess what the US bombing Iran makes more likely.
- Comment on Just one more 1 week ago:
Ehm, nope? You know that white and black/dark blue/dark greyish are the most prevalent car colors?
Look at the trucks and minivans that are a bit more distinct. Their patterns with other white cars around do not repeat.
Also the one in the picture only has 20 lanes. The US widest has 26 lanes
- Comment on Again and Again and Again and..... 1 week ago:
Problem is that as they will get bogged down, they will probably have to sacrifice Ukraine to Russia and South East Asia to China.
From a strategic point of view, this will turn out as a huge failure for the US.
- Comment on Again and Again and Again and..... 1 week ago:
The UK already applauded his attack. Given how Germany acted so far, i expect them to follow suit. While urging to go back to diplomacy and restraint the EU speaker also first said, Iran must not have nuclear weapons, while not saying that countries shouldn’t just bomb other countries, whenever they feel like it.
- Comment on Again and Again and Again and..... 1 week ago:
“terrorism”
When people don’t want to be slaughtered and have their resources stolen by imperial invaders it is “terrorism”. When the same invaders are doing their invasions, mass murder civilians, threaten total annihilation and the like, it is “security” or “bringing democracy”…
- Comment on 9/11 was an inside lämp 1 week ago:
Aged like the night
- Comment on So um, america just started another war in the middle east. We're going to need a shit ton more memes to distract americans from the nightmare they are enduring. Thanks in advance... 1 week ago:
Bombing Iran and letting Israel dictate American foreign policy are two things with strong bipartisan support.
Hillary Clinton campaigned in 2008 on the promise to bomb Iran. Biden couldnt even bring it over himself to enforce a demand for Israel to no starve Gaza to death and let Netanyahu humiliate him in public multiple times. And Biden/Clintons are the ultimate Democrats establishment.
- Comment on Bestbuy decided to use fucking **DOORDASH** to deliver my order, I couldn't cancel it. Today I was supposed to get it, and I saw the driver stealing the package after marking it as delivered. 2 weeks ago:
In a better world the driver wouldn’t be exploited in a gig economy and have little incentive to risk criminal charges for a fucking laptop.
You are completely running past socioeconomic factors to be the main driver of small scale crime.
- Comment on 8999 BC 2 weeks ago:
Looks like they invented chain-mail right along with it.
- Comment on Very small deal 2 weeks ago:
Just plug it back in when transporting.
