DoubleDongle

@DoubleDongle@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Say hi to the machine elves for me⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If weed is a walk in the part, mushrooms are climbing a hill, and acid is a hike up a mountain, salvia is skydiving

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can any armchair Cornels or members of the military tell us with your experience how a full out war with Iran will be like?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If the goal is to destabilize the regime until it collapses and then we fund a friendly government into power, it might be doable if we can block their oil exports. But we just lifted sanctions on their oil, so they’ll never run out of money. China may be making shaheds now, so even if we bomb all of Iran’s military manufacturing infrastructure, they can probably keep buying weapons forever.

  Iran is very mountainous. This restricts the use of our biggest and best machines of war and gives them places to hide things. Iran is also big geographically and demographically, much larger than Iraq or Afghanistan. It’s also important to note that while the regime is not loved by many, they ALL really hate us. The regime is evil, but everyone west of Greece or so is a fucking demon to them. They have decent historical reasons to feel this way.

  Occupying them and achieving complete surrender is probably not going to happen, and if we try for it, it’ll cost massive shitloads of money we don’t have and probably also a lot of lives. The best thing that can happen is we bail and try to say we won. The worst is the president nukes them and Russia nukes us back on their behalf. What I think is most likely is a collapse in the dollar and a withdrawal afterwards.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨do I accept?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Would. Both of them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Model⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  All they know how to do is eat ram, hog power, and lie

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is likely to happen when/if trump dies?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The individual you’re replying to may be sincere, but a shill trying to demoralize us would say the exact same thing. If a scary message doesn’t end in a call to action, it’s not helpful.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IYKYK⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sometimes I could use some of these to convince the inspector I didn’t touch the plumbing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ope⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I still don’t know how to articulate the feeling I get seeing my country in decline but also seeing the world rearrange itself in a way that is probably healthier long-term as it happens. The Germans don’t have some long frankenword for simultaneous relief and deep unease at the same time, do they?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nvidia Announces DLSS 5, and it adds... An AI slop filter over your game⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It gave her Mar-a-Lago face

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  unholies your land

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why would you ask such a thing? Did you hear what Trump said today? The world has to know!01!0!0!!0!!!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve got a suspicion I can’t shake that there’s an astroturf campaign to make people tired of talking about this shit rather than tired of the shit itself. It’s defense to keep ideas from entering the cult.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What the fuck is going on with Iran and what will happen next?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Going by the polls, roughly one in ten or perhaps more Americans have changed their mind about him already. They’re mostly independents, but he has also lost most of the literal actual Hitler-hailing nazis, which is a serious blow to his people power.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨God lays out the rules for bad drivers and eternal hell⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I see someone passing me. I notice I’m going slower than I thought, so I speed up.

  Ah shit, now that guy can’t pass me like this and it’s awkward as fuck. Guess I’ll slow down a little so he can get by me, then pick back up. Wash, rinse, repeat. I’m sorry.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can to many hits to the head make a person the R word in animals? My bc loves to run around the house and hits his head constantly but shakes it off. He acts normal and everything exceept4 zoomies?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve heard of it causing dementia regularly in blue-footed boobies because of their habit of high-speed diving to hunt. Every animal I’ve heard of that uses its head to bash things has a lot of special padding in the skull too. I think it’s pretty safe to assume animals can be concussed abd suffer similar forms of brain damage to a human.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨the two party system is just one big party⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is pretty true, but remember that it is fixable. Voting in primaries is where you shape your party.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rabbit holes, girl; have you never heard of them?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The girls I know do this shit too

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I Am Sexually Attracted To Eevee From Pokemon⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not even gonna give it a water stone first?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨how it feels to chew 5 gum⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  How it chews to gum five feels. Sense your stimulate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Expecto patronum my ass!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The gun is his patronus

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Constantly⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Have a burger, then three beers later I’ll talk to you about politics

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Better be a sex offender registry on those damn space ships⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think I can assume from here that there aren’t any aliens, because they would NOT be touching this for a cheap distraction if there was anything of note to see.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨She must be really smart⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Pretty sure this is AI too in addition to being otherwise shitty and tired.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it theoretically possible Trump and ICE are killing a very large number of immigrants (like 25% of those detained) and no one knows?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  ICE has always “lost” suspicious amounts of children.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Twice the rejection⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m a bi guy. While I’m happily married, I can assure you that if I were looking for someone, I would not do this. Hiding who I am is not fun and can lead to bigger problems later.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Twice the rejection⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m actually pretty sure that there are enough people of either gender who will not date a bisexual to make the bisexual dating pool smaller than the straight one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You are allowed flavor⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Just gotta grill that shit and everyone will be drooling for it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do horses allow humans to ride on their backs?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  We have food

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the optimal handle to chain length for a flail?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Far as I know, flails as depicted weren’t really used in war. They may have showed up in tournament fighting, but not war. The flails that did get used in real battlefields were pole weapons. Long shaft like five feet or so, very short chain that’s essentially just a hinge, then a sort of long head something like 18" that may have had spikes or bumps.

  Talhoffer wrote a manual for them, calling it a peasant flail. It has a lot of wonky binds that I would conjecture probably didn’t get a huge amount of use outside duels. In war, it was probably mostly overhead bonk attacks. Fighting against these things in a duel is a real bitch though. A skilled user can shower you in weird bullshit that’s hard to predict or handle and can’t really be done with anything else. There’s a ready stance where you hold it head-down and lean on it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Question for the Americans. If Canada, Venezuela, Mexico, or Greenland dropped a nuke on Washington DC, would you be angry at the bomb dropper, or would you think we had that coming?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  While at this point I’d feel safer if Washington vanished in a blast of nuclear hellfire than I do in its current state, the fact that it comes from another country in this scenario would create a whole new set of problems.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can socialism or communism have incentives (even without markets)?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  People like doing things. Most of them do, at least.

  I think the big thing here is that money and markets only stop properly existing in the most extreme ideas of communism. I think the most communist system that’s still viable would just be one where it looks like capitalism on the surface but unions are strong enough to openly challenge the government and there’s a soft cap on income and wealth. And markets and incentives don’t go away there, so it’s a moot point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you fight doomerism/pessimism in these trying times?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The “no elections” thing is a psyop designed to make you fearful and hopeless. Fraud is possible, but at the rate it’s going, it will probably be super obvious if they try it, which carries risks.

  The assholes are fucking stupid, they’re bad at this, and I think the Kremlin is intentionally giving them shit advice because they want us to collapse more than they want the regime change. We will prevail if we work towards it, and I see a labor revival in our longer future.