Dude I just scrolled their history for funsies (I’m sure mine has plenty of dumb shit in it too so I’m not immune to idiocy…)

The guy who wants an auto block option for people who downvote their stuff is complaining about this being an “echo chamber.”. That. Is. Hilarious.

Probably the OPs comment history is my guess.

Anyway, you don’t care about any of that, or listening to anything that anyone would say if you feel they’re not on your team (let alone assuming their good faith), what you care about is scoring points with your tribe, and being righteous, and dunking, and all the rest of the boring litany of social-media ills.

But I’m putting this correction out there anyway.

You could have left all of that out. You don’t need to project insecurities onto other posters like that. It’s not very constructive and will repulse anyone reading. That or it will only invite troll replies and no serious responses.

Which maybe is your goal, just saying personal attacks like that aren’t going to make anyone want to engage with you even if they’re in agreement with you on whatever topics.

I miss when Reddit was in competition with Digg.

Easily the two worst lol

Just as long as those sweet sweet ad dollars keep rolling in; I don’t think the people in charge of Reddit give a single fuck.

They spot targets first then send these fiber optic guides drones on a one way trip to killsville.

At least that’s my understanding. I doubt they launch them from some central drone storage location, these drones are carried by a small team, fired off, then the team leaves the area.

I could be wrong though, I’m not an expert.

I’m not saying I agree with the calculations or even that I’m right but my hot take:

Placing limitations on the weapons systems did a few things. One, kept Russia from claiming xyz NATO country was providing weapons to explicitly strike Russia with which could be seen as further escalation. Two, as a way to put pressure on Russia to back down or accept a peace agreement by allowing a method of ramping up the effectiveness of the weapons systems provided to the Ukrainians. Third, there’s no way if these are used against Russia they either won’t kill civilians at some point. That’s an easy propaganda win for Russia when they can point to the evil NATO bros giving Ukraine weapons to kill Russian civilians in Russia. One could argue we were trying to prevent that by limiting their usage via range restrictions.

Now that the play hasn’t really done what they expected it makes sense to “take the gloves off” and let those weapons systems do more, including strikes further into Russia.

In short, it was meant to be a deterrent to Russia and to have maybe a gentleman’s agreement of sorts that if Ukraine doesn’t use their weapons platform that way then Russia might do the same (ie: try to encourage Russia to not bomb civilians indiscriminately). That clearly failed.

As a person who lives in the USA even I am shocked constantly at how fucked up things really are here.

Then you have people who rejoice that we have the “freedom” for companies to fuck you and they bend over to take it with a smile. They’re the worst. Lumpenproletariat

There is no federal law guaranteeing maternity leave in the USA. We have a law that you have to provide … I want to say 12? … Weeks unpaid leave for new mothers but that’s pretty much it. They may be able to claim short term disability for some time they’re out of work which is half your income not all of it.

Some individual states may have protections in their laws but it’s certainly not the norm. It really comes down to the company you work for. I work for a nice company. They gave me 10 weeks paid leave for parental leave, which is even more rare here for any kind of paternity leave (I’m a dude).

It’s pretty sad honestly.

Yeah need more money to go travel even if it isn’t through time.

Do you currently watch Tasting History on YouTube because it sounds right up your alley if not.

https://youtube.com/@tastinghistory

It’s kind of cool that his channel was the first one I got to see go from early inception (few thousand subs) to where he is now. Impressive, and honestly well deserved.