TIRM
16d ago
Yes: using a silly and false theory we can purposefully contrive false conclusions.
So what, exactly, are our leaders thinking?
I've said it before, I'll say it again: bleeding Russia is on sale right at an amazing discount right now, so we're buying a bit.
"But [list of reasons why long term Ukraine is screwed, won't be able to get back lost territory, etc, etc]." Yeah, sure. Also Russia is exhausting itself at a very small cost to the American taxpayer.
If Russia spends years grinding away to a standstill in Ukraine, then they won't have the ability to attack any further anytime soon.
And very optimistically, it serves as a warning to other countries wanting to invade their neighbors. If they badly desire a drawn out conflict that drains their resources for no obvious gain, we'll give it to them.
TIRM
16d ago
But GW isn't introducing female space marines. So that's a non-issue.
Females custodes is a change. I'm not sure I'd denounce it as wokeness.
TIRM
16d ago
Tabletop Games (W40K)
Assuming this is a racial issue: Shouldn't a true to the setting depiction of 40K be full of POCs? If anything it's weird that all of mankind 10s of thousands of years in the future produces mostly white guardsmen and space marines, given their depiction in various media.
TIRM
16d ago
And what happens when more than one party has this attitude? Wild mutual escalation that most people people involved don't even want. Turning what could have been a mild contention into effectively a blood fued.
TIRM
16d ago
The classic story of Chuck Palahniuk being a diesel mechanic while writing Fight Club. Frankly a grittier man than some other authors.
TIRM
16d ago
but the signal-to-noise ratio has increased exponentially
To be a nerd about this: you mean decreased.
TIRM
17d ago
Israelis built a truck with a remote control gun on it and killed Iran's top nuclear scientist with it in Iran.
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17d ago
TIRM
17d ago
Yes. And their male child would unite the Atreides and Harkonnen families. The emperor has no male children. His daughter would be married to this person.
“ban all the good cars by 203x” initiatives? Does it look like that will happen?
California, Washington state, Massachusetts, the EU, Canada, etc are banning the sale of ICE cars in 203x. Hypothetically it is happening. Maybe they'll push back the deadlines as we approach them.
TIRM
26d ago
I excessively love bitter rich flavors. Like 85% cacao chocolate or dark black coffee. I wish great tasting very dark coffee existed so I could have it all day.
I like black coffee because it is so great. Huffington Post videos be damned.
TIRM
26d ago
"Let's shut down some nuclear power plants and replace the energy with imported Russian fuel."
-Actual for-real recent German policy.
It's like they read Frank Herbert's bit about hydraulic despotism and decided to become the dependant helpless party in that exchange.
TIRM
28d ago
There was a "as a black guy worried about my low-IQ genes contaminating my white girlfriend and our future kids" post on the reddit SSC culture war roundup thread shortly before it was permanently canceled. I didn't bother responding to it, but it was so clearly bait. Just the perfect example of intolerable wrongthink.
TIRM
28d ago
It is really quite amazing how genetics so horribly strikes Haitians but not to remotely the same degree other black Caribbean populations or black Africans or black British people, etc. It does make one suspicious that maybe a second factor could be at play.
I thought the Russian economy lacked the ability to replace expended or destroyed high tech equipment. Or recently destroyed oil infrastructure for that matter. They could be throwing large amounts of effectively unreplacabe materiel at Ukraine. And then none will be left for other uses. Bleeding them.
I have little doubt in their ability to field many men for a long time and gradually grind at the Ukrainians. I don't take more men under arms as a sign of economic strength for them. But it doesn't matter since our ""allies"" in Europe will fund them more and more through oil purchases so their GDP will grow merely by being a petrostate.
Ukrainians have agency and I am not at all sympathetic to arguments we are egging them on when we give them the arms they ask for. Or that hastening their brutalization by Russia is somehow a moral good.
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