yeah it is the door over there everybody keeps pretending doesn't exist but everybody keeps blatantly using???
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Yeah, I used to carry around pocket knives when I was a kid as a sort of power trip thing but then I thought about whether it would be worse to win or lose a knife fight and decided if someone did attack me unless I thought my life was truly in danger (or someone else) I would NEVER pull the knife out...
...like seriously, the movies make it seem like it wouldn't be terrifying, awful and traumatizing for anybody involved no matter how it went.....
Don't take my word for it, wear some shitty clothes you use to do chores, get a friend, get two sharpies and have a fake knife fight with the sharpie as the stand in for the knives and then look at all of the sharpie marks over both of you no matter who "won". You will never desire to get in a knife fight ever again after that point.
Yeah nope, a knife is an awful weapon for the wielder, the victim and the observer. Much better to get a leatherman and have a whole set of actually useful tools along with a knife that doesn't scream "IM DANGEROUS" but rather "Im your uncle who loves woodworking's favorite multitool".
If you threaten somebody with a lethal weapon in a context where they are defenseless and the surrounding context/society does not place a massive red flag on you for doing so, both the person with the lethal weapon and the society are condemnable.
The point of a weapon is for when you have decided that in order to protect others you must take action, when people use weapons like this to threaten it is an admission that they should not be allowed the responsibility of handling such weapons by the adults around them.
I remember one of the first things I learned about gun safety scared me with a jolt the first time I heard it. It was "don't point a gun at someone you don't intend to kill" .... which I think is wise advice and it enrages me that U.S. media not only is so casual with weaving together guns and hero worship, but that the casualness extends to making casual lethal threats which are one of the scariest things you will ever see because they promise a future you will never want to see if they can continue to thrive out in the open while people ignore them and go about their day.
I didn't understand immediately that part of the wisdom of not pointing a gun at someone you don't intend to kill is that someday (already even?) you will find yourself in a situation where you believe you have decisive power over someone when you are only being lead to believe you do, and in that moment how you choose to use that decisive power, whether you let it reside calmly as an almost trickster spirit or whether you rip it out of the holster and brandish it like a baby having a tamper tantrum (how characters use guns in US media mostly) decides whether the far more powerful observer will intercede and snuff you out because it has seen behind your mask.
Trust isn't a plan, it isn't a geometry or particular formula, it is the spontaneous improbable (yet oh sooooo probable) coordination of elements that saw a new fork in the road and took it.
Periodic reminder for any children in the room, being jewish and the religion and history of judaism are "one" concept. Israel as a specific country with laws, streets, courts etc.. is a second concept.
Two concepts, not one
I actually think this would just make her words more powerful tho
Personally, I would smile back to Greta dismantling my ideology, she is smart af : ) and your childish hateful vision of the world is going to topple one day anyhow so why not choose?
This is why life is a verb.
(universal "you" not directing this at anyone in particular)
I voted for Harris because I don't care I just want people to be ok even when they hate me shrugs.
Everybody feels that way at least to a degree when losing, consider that a truly frightening enemy will be patient with you through that process because every moment is a choice.
Now putin will be looking to best that
Why?
All wars require context, and the shift you have seen is Ukraine developed a decisive enough advantage that interests tangential but intersecting to the war in Ukraine realize it.
The decisive advantage is domestic production of self propelled 155mm artillery in Ukraine.
You almost make it sound like putin sacrificed these planes as an olive branch or something.
No, you have this backwards, this is how a more powerful enemy beats you because it allows an opening for the loser to turn to the crowd and make a bunch of noise and get everyone riled up while they know from their strategic military brain that well those bombers were nice launch platforms for loitering with BVR weapons or killing civilians en masse (turns out this is real bad and we shouldn't try to drop as many bombs on people as you can) but they aren't critical elements of a military that if were crippled would make a leader trying to exit a war look weak to rivals.
Anybody in Russia who understands modern warfare will understand that while those bombers were useful and large bomber platforms to launch drones will absolutely be a realm of weapons development, that even in that future war case there are already massive freight airliners being produced all of the world by aircraft companies that will work pretty much as good. This isn't the same thing as knocking out SUPER critical military infrastructure that places a losing enemy leader in a position where they might act existentially vs. keep seeing the tactical benefit of delaying and retreating instead of going on the offensive.
This is basic Klingon anti-war philosophy/theory, you gotta educate yourself on this stuff.
Speak softly and carry a big helicopter
ha, James, that is my heart not some space rock you fool!
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Gimp 3.0.0 Already Has A Killer Plugin -> GUI Batch Image Conversion And Editing (including with PDFs)
(github.com)
Throw this python plugin into your GIMP 3.0.0 installation's plugin folder (if you already have gimp installed, uninstall it and make a fresh install, at least that is my advice).
When you open GIMP under "File" is the "Batch Convert" option, which brings up a really nice GUI for doing conversion of image files, but also basic edits.
I know there are command line utilities for this kind of thing, I know there are paid commercial programs that do this kind of thing.. but having an open source optional-GUI utility that does this that also happens to be attached to an extremely mature and fully featured open source image editor is pretty awesome.
https://kamilburda.github.io/batcher/
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my heart :(
find the places that are full of diversity and life and weave your life into them so that when the forces of extinction come they will face us not them!