CapeWearingAeroplane

@CapeWearingAeroplane@sopuli.xyz

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An old excuse⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  if you’re going to claim that “breaking the UN charter!” is your bottom line to determine what is right or wrong, I have a whole oil tanker load of shit of stuff that Iran has done to spew all over that, lol.

  Classic whataboutism.

  I never said Iran was some kind of angel regime. I never defended any of the illegal shit Iran has done.

  I stated, quite clearly, that the US and Isreal have started a war of aggression against Iran, in violation of the UN charter, and tried justifying it as being a “preemptive attack”. The primary point is: That’s a gross violation of international law, and should be condemned.

  The initial point I made was regarding the irony in that by attacking Iran “preemptively” at regular intervals, they end up proving to Iran that their sovereignty won’t be respected unless they have a strong deterrent (e.g. nukes).

  if you’re going to conflate this with the attack on Iraq you’ll have to elaborate a bit more

  Iraq, Venezuela, … the point (which stands) is that the US (and Israel) have shown time and again that they will blatantly violate international law and attack others in order to preserve their “national interests”. No one should be surprised when that results in countries like Iran trying to develop strong deterrents like nukes.

  Lets put it this way: When was the last time Iran launched a “preemptive” strike on Israel or the US?

  Finally, to be completely clear: I’m not condoning any violations of international law. I’m actually sticking to a principle here and saying that one country attacking or coercing another is wrong, no matter who does it. That means russia is the bad guy when they attack Ukraine, the US is the bad guy when they kidnap Maduro, Iran is the bad guy when they organise terror attacks in Israel, Israel is the bad guy when they bulldoze civilian apartments with tanks, etc. etc. etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An old excuse⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  There are two primary points here:

  1. Just the past couple of years there has been an assassination of a high-ranking officer in Iran, and iirc a bombing of their consulate in Beirut. None of these are related to the nuclear program, they weren’t even claimed to be related to the nuclear program. I also mentioned other countries: the whole “Iraq has WMD’s”-thing comes to mind.

  2. Regardless of the above, both the US and Israel have signed the UN charter, explicitly stating that the will not attack other countries just to get their way. Doing that puts them on the same level as russia when it comes to respecting international law. Saying “you should have done as I said and you wouldn’t have gotten beat up” doesn’t justify beating someone up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An old excuse⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  We can flip that argument though: “These people keep trying to make nukes to stop me from bombing them. Maybe if I stop bombing them and instead try to make something like the old Iran nuclear agreement, they won’t see a massive need for nukes”.

  The thing is, the US+Israel have shown time and again that they will conduct bombings and assassinations on Iranian (and other) soil regardless of whether the country in question is actually anywhere close to building nukes. So the idea “maybe we should stop trying to build nukes” just falls flat on its face once the US+Israel bombs you anyway, which is basically what’s happening here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An old excuse⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  unless you’re on their side it’s a very good thing if they don’t get them.

  Of absolutely! I would much prefer that Iran (a fanatic, fundamentalist government) do not get their hands on nukes.

  I’m just pointing out the irony in that bombing them “preemptively” around once a year, and in general breaking all kinds of international law against them (assassinations etc.) is basically just yelling to them that “As long as you don’t have nukes, we can do whatever we want to you, and murder your people as we please. We’re also gonna keep doing it regularly to stop you from getting nukes!”

  If that doesn’t convince someone to do everything in their power to build nukes, I don’t know what will.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An old excuse⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Ironically, attacking someone “preemptively” because you think they’re about to develop nukes really just proves to those being attacked that they need nukes, because you won’t respect their sovereignty without MAD. I think it’s very clear to anyone with eyes and half a brain that the US+Israel wouldn’t have attacked Iran if it could result in Tel Aviv being glassed. Thus, the only logical conclusion from Irans side must be that they need to work even harder to develop nukes if they want the US+Israel to stop bombing them “preemptively” once a year or so.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been at some festivals where the bartering system was alive and well! People would trade beer for camping chairs or a volleyball for some duct tape. Good times :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not 100% true: I know some places in Norway that have unreliable internet connectivity, where they have terminals in the store that will save your purchase and wire it to the bank when connection is restored. Of course, this means you can over-draw your card, but I’ve never heard of that being a big issue in those small places.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Those books are different from how I remembered…⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  My personal tale on this is that given that the brain contains chaotic circuits (i.e. circuits in which tiny perturbations lead to cascading effects), and these circuits are complex and sensitive enough, the brain may be inherently unpredictable due to quantum fluctuations causing non-negligible effects.

  I don’t know if the above is the case, but if there’s anything like free will out there, I’m inclined to believe that its origins lie in something like that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Olympic casual GigaChad⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I love pedantry <3 I got the “three medals per event” from some Wikipedia page, and I know they love pedantry over there as well, so maybe you should make a contribution?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Olympic casual GigaChad⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  In 2020 there were 448 events at the Olympics, let’s round up to 450. Each event gives 3 medals, for a total of 1350 medals. The Olympics are held every four years, so that 337.5 medals are awarded in an average year.

  There are about 8.1 billion people in the world. On average, 0.000004 % of the worlds population receives an Olympic medal each year.

  If this were a completely random yearly lottery, and you lived for 100 years, you would have about a 0.0004 % chance of winning an Olympic medal in your lifetime.

  I would count myself lucky if I won that by the time I was 50.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Somehow USB disks are still the easiest and most reliable way⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t post my memes on the much room bulletin board for everyone to see unless I print them :/

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mildred⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Honest question: Are there no limits in the US to what you can legally name your child? Where I’m from a name can be rejected if it can “cause significant harm or inconvenience to the child”. This prevents idiots from naming their child “Traitor” or “Terrorist”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So is Israel just going to finish Palestine off?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  You are aware that what Israel is doing in Gaza is comparable to the nazi treatment of e.g. the Warsaw ghettos… right?

  Take a step back, and look at the Israeli soldiers mocking Palestinian dead, mistreating the wounded and captured, and shooting at clearly unarmed civilians for fun. All this while they brag about it on video. Look at that and tell me that it doesn’t give you a sick feeling to your stomach of the type you haven’t had since you saw photos of concentration camps.

  There are dozens of children that have literally STARVED TO DEATH if Gaza because of Israel’s actions. They’re dying the same deaths that Jews were put through in concentration camps. Don’t you see the horrifying irony in this?

  Israel is at a point where humanitarian workers from recognised international organisations have been targeted and killed, and they brush it off as a “mistake”.

  I cannot think about anything in the past 70 years that compares to what Israel is doing, and I hope beyond hope that some force will smite their government and armed forces such that the slaughter will stop. Because it is a slaughter. It’s not a war when Israel is counting its dead on its fingers, while there are enough missing Palestinians in the rubble to fill a football stadium. It’s just Israel wilfully bombing, burning and slaughtering, with nobody stopping them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So is Israel just going to finish Palestine off?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Israel recognised Palestinian civilian and security control of the awestruck bank in the Oslo accords from the 90’s. They are blatantly shitting on their own promises whenever a genocidic occupier or their enabling security forces set foot on the West Bank without express permission from the Palestinian West Bank government.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I feel betrayed...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s evidence that knights would dismount before battle to prevent their horse from being injured, even though they knew they were exposing themselves to greater risk. Although we have more technical knowledge about how to “optimally” care for horses now, there’s no reason to believe that we aren’t as or more exploitative of them, rendering them as or less healthy than horses back then.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the equivalent stereotype of 'women should all be homemakers,' for men?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Check out the actual statistics on what women and men choose an occupations when both people-related and non-people-related jobs are otherwise equal. Therese quite a bit of evidence that men and women tend to prefer occupations in one or the other category.

  Honestly, looking at how different men and women are physically, it is slightly absurd to assume that they are identical psychologically (i.e. have the exact same preference regarding people-oriented vs. Technical occupations).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Me to myself everyday.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Please tell me how, HOW, getting up at 5 (and going to bed at 21) is going to give me more time than getting up at 7-8 and going to bed at 23-00.

  Also, I would like to know why “society” thinks you are “better” if you exercise at 6-7 before work, rather than 20-21 after work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨He's not going to go easy on you either⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I would say his mouth-region is neutral, but the region around his eyes are focused, almost to the point of being intimidating.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is currency so essential?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, in a perfect world, yes. The issue comes up when someone wears out or breaks the drill, and it needs to be replaced or repaired. Whoever spends time and resources ensuring that we have a drill needs to be compensated somehow, because that’s time they’re not spending on making sure they have food and shelter.

  Follow along that line of reasoning for a couple steps, and you end up with some kind of economic system, and likely some kind of enforcement system, so you’re suddenly back at an early stage proto-state/government.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon makes money⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I believe there’s a quote by “Taco” in"Better call Saul" along the lines of “I love robbing criminals, because they never go to the cops”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You will certainly not regret⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I may be wrong, but I’ve been told by a German that beer is by German law considered a staple food.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don't passanger airplanes come with parachutes for people?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  You’ll survive for quite a while once you’re below 6000 m. In free fall that would take you around 90 s, assuming a fall from 11000 m, and that it takes 200 m (5 s) of fall to reach terminal velocity of 200 km/h.

  This is quite rough, but gives an appropriate order of magnitude. In those 90 s, you would be very likely to pass out and be guaranteed to get severe frost bite. We’re talking major amputations levels of frost bite, as you would be moving at 200 km/h, exposed, in temperatures in the -50 C to -10 C range. I’ve seen people get frost bites moving at 40 km/h in -15 C for a couple of minutes with just a sliver of skin exposed.

  So short answer: You might survive getting into the survivable range, but at the very least you will require intense and immediate medical attention upon landing. Seeing as there will be potentially a couple hundred people spread out over a large, possibly remote, area requiring this attention, it’s unlikely that many, if any, would survive the ordeal, even if most people survived the initial 5000 m of fall into the survivable altitude range.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Can someone who’s more into gun stuff tell me why people are always talking about the amount of guns someone has?

  What makes 23 different guns better than one good one? I can see the point of having like two, in case the first jams, but based on my (limited) experience I would much rather have a single HK416 than a dozen of anything else.

  Also with fewer guns you need fewer ammo types (unless you for some reason have 23 guns with the same ammo, which to me makes even less sense).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Still wanna know⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Is there some reason they chose to draw them like this? Does anyone with more knowledge than me about making movies or cartoons have an explanation?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Legendary exit for a legendary creator⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩:

  Vsauce for me as well, I like veritasium, because I feel like the questions being asked/answered are legitimately interesting questions/answers. With Vsauce I feel like the whole thing is just about him constructing unnecessarily “out of the box” answers in order to look smart.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is alcohol measured in percentages?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩:

  Also, it’s practical. If you know something is twice as concentrated (12% instead of 6%) you know to drink it more carefully, rather than if you get a jug of something and it just says how much alcohol is in there, then you have to mentally calibrate how strong it is by considering the volume of the jug vs. how much alcohol there is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨1.1 History⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩:

  There seems to be a slight misunderstanding here: If you imagine the “moment before” the big bang that is a state where the entire universe is compressed into a singularity, which necessarily has no entropy, because it can only have one state. Once the universe started expanding, you get a whole lot of disorder, because, while you are forming particles (introducing order) those particles are moving away from each other at relativistic speeds. The available volume for the particles (the volume of the universe) increases extremely rapidly, meaning you have more possible microstates than if all particles were compressed into a point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does it seem like women are more wont to make noise in sexual situations while men don't?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩:

  Y’all need more combined words! Why can’t we just call it “underskinsfat” or “subskinsfat” and be rid of the problem? I much miss the option in the English language of just plugging together whatever words I need in order to create a word that gets the point across. I hope the devs will add that in a future update.

  Without that option you can’t get words like “ashstuck” to describe the specific situation where someone is stuck somewhere because flights are cancelled due to ash in the atmosphere, typically from a volcanic eruption.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does it seem like women are more wont to make noise in sexual situations while men don't?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for sharing! I wouldn’t have guessed that sense of smell could be so heavily impacted! Nice to hear that your emotions are doing better as well :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does it seem like women are more wont to make noise in sexual situations while men don't?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩:

  Cool! I didn’t know about the pelvic tilt either, and it’s interesting to hear that both mtf and ftm transitioners (is that the right term?) have similar experiences regarding emotional accessibility. And thanks for opening for questions, I’m going to fire off a couple right away:

  Have you experienced any change in sleep patterns?

  Any significant change in appetite? If yes, how? Both regarding amounts, and what kind of food you “crave”?

  I’m assuming you don’t menstruate, but do you have any kind of hormonal “cycle” that would be similar? If so, how is it?

  PS. It’s veery late in my time zone, so I have to sleep now, but I appreciate any answers I get, and I’m looking forward to reading them :)