Sordid

joined 1 year ago
[–] Sordid@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago

Talking is not going to get them to leave Ukraine.

[–] Sordid@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Depends. Do I need to win or is a draw an acceptable outcome? If it's the latter, the blue whale. What's it gonna do, beach itself?

[–] Sordid@kbin.social 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

it’s considered common knowledge that you can’t

I've never heard that before. What I have heard several times is that text is not static, so if you read something, look away, and then read it again, it'll say something different. That I can corroborate, along with the idea that this is how you realize you're in a dream and induce lucid dreaming.

[–] Sordid@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

As does Steam and Epic and every other digital store ever created.

[–] Sordid@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Replaying old games that I have fond memories of. We're in an incredible renaissance of classic games getting source ports or updates that bring them up to modern standards, and I'm loving it. Daggerfall, Blade of Darkness, Jagged Alliance 2, Morrowind, Jedi Knight, Caesar 3... I'm sure I'm forgetting ~~some~~ many. They let me forget the present and pretend that I'm back in simpler, happier times, at least for a little while.

[–] Sordid@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Explain how it was a convenient excuse?

Roosevelt wanted to get involved but had no way to get the public to go along with it. The Japanese helped him out.

if the US could have used nuclear weapons right after the attack to prevent entering the war, regardless of their transportation method, they would’ve

And how exactly do you imagine the US could've used such weapons against Japan without transporting them to Japan?

[–] Sordid@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

The entire reason why the US entered the war was because of the attack.

No, that was a convenient excuse. Roosevelt must've thought Christmas had come early when he got the news.

Do you think if they did, they would’ve used them immediately to force a quick surrender instead of dragging out the war for years causing millions of deaths?

No, because B-29s didn't exist yet either, and they couldn't take off from aircraft carriers in any case. The US would've had to conquer its way across the Pacific to get within bomber range either way.

[–] Sordid@kbin.social 77 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Worse, we're throwing piles of money at them.

[–] Sordid@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

I haven't done any actual math in this respect, but I suspect this meme is still missing quite a lot of 9s after the decimal point.

[–] Sordid@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If the vast majority of the universe is inhospitable, doesn’t that make it more miraculous and unexplainable that earth is?

No, because the Earth being habitable doesn't violate any laws of physics. It's just rare.

[–] Sordid@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago

They did. This is only the oldest, innermost fortification in the city. AFAIK additional layers of walls were build around it later.

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