Doubledee

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[–] Doubledee@hexbear.net 11 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Does Iran only have 1,000 missiles? For some reason I was thinking they had stockpiled way more than that as their primary deterrence.

[–] Doubledee@hexbear.net 17 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

How do we weigh that given the censorship we know Israel is attempting to impose over footage of damage?

[–] Doubledee@hexbear.net 18 points 2 weeks ago

Trump got that Witch of the Wastes condition from Howl's Moving Castle.

[–] Doubledee@hexbear.net 3 points 2 weeks ago

Right, to be clear I mean that there is no substance to the supposed offers of diplomacy, even if Iranian leadership has prior to this been holding onto that illusion. The US cannot do diplomacy, they can only issue demands and use force.

[–] Doubledee@hexbear.net 22 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Deadline ran out on Trump's supposed negotiations, if Iran isn't constrained by a treaty or some other arrangement there is little to keep them from just going for it, is my guess. Turns out when you give up on diplomacy then diplomatic solutions stop having any power to constrain anyone.

[–] Doubledee@hexbear.net 4 points 2 weeks ago

Certainly true, however in my case we don't have a store nearby that does bulk really, we go to a little market and get things in the one size they sell, which is what I bought when I was single. So it's not JUST bulk.

[–] Doubledee@hexbear.net 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

COL is huge, I'm not being particularly thrifty and I feed my family of 3 on 150 or less every week. I could easily feed myself on 60.

[–] Doubledee@hexbear.net 5 points 3 weeks ago

This and Western AF have gotten me into so many good artists. Good find!

[–] Doubledee@hexbear.net 22 points 3 weeks ago

I mean the war wouldn't end just because you killed the other side's leader, they have other people who can step in, so it's not really about slow walking winning. But both Putin and Zelensky want an end to the war in which they don't personally get blown up. So yes they'll let a lot of other people die instead to let the war play out without risking their own lives.

[–] Doubledee@hexbear.net 22 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Ukraine has, probably through the help of NATO/US intelligence, the capability to target some of Russia's most significant and expensive military assets with things like drones and sabotage. If the gloves come off because Zelensky gets got, Putin and basically all the high ranking officials in Russia could reasonably expect to be targeted in response.

What I'm saying is they appear to have an unspoken agreement not to do that currently because it's in each person's best interest.

[–] Doubledee@hexbear.net 20 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

I think killing leadership is a Pandora's box, especially given the high profile bombings deep in Russian territory that they were very clearly not prepared to defend themselves against.

[–] Doubledee@hexbear.net 22 points 1 month ago

"Nobody else can be trusted to run any of this stuff like I can. I'm essential to the running of this system and can never go away or even take time to consider that I might ever stop."

Also I think a lot of them hate their kids, hate their spouses, don't like their lives and don't want to be home alone dwelling on how alienated and empty they are.

 

che-si

 

Hey so, I was raised in a very sheltered religious environment, I have changed a lot since I became an adult and accepted that I was just gonna have missed some stuff. I have a kid now though and I don't want to be like... a weird caveman who knows nothing about basic ass science stuff when they have questions or are learning these things in school or wherever. Is there an approachable book or resources about science that fundie-raised folks might have missed? I appreciate this is a weird question but I have to imagine I'm not the only person in this position. (TEST EDIT for reasons)

 

Sorry if this is the wrong comm for this, I never post, but I'm most of the way through Age of Extremes and I'm a bit baffled. I get that he lived a long life and saw a lot of stuff but his analysis of the 20th century seems really defeated and... I mean liberal?

He has some pointed critiques of RES states that veer really close to saying revolution is impossible, that the market cannot be stopped, that basically we have to accept that communism was never a possibility and move on. It is really jarring after the previous titles. Am I misreading him? Some of it might just be old dude stuff, I guess, he has some old man takes on art at least. It just seems like he is totally despairing by the end of the last book, but everything I saw about him made it sound like he was a committed Marxist until he died.

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