u/markovs_gun

I'll believe it when I see it lol. Trump tariff threats just sound like whining at this point because he doesn't have the balls to actually follow through.

I would feel bad for their base for how stupid the Trump admin thinks they are if the admin were actually wrong about that. So far the base has proven them right over and over and over again- they truly are as stupid as the admin thinks they are.

I read another article about this from the New York Times and I am pretty confused about a lot of this. Mostly- where the Hell is he getting all the money for this? That article mentioned another instance where he hired a bunch of child actors to act like he was a celebrity and fawn over him and they mentioned how much some of the actors in this scheme were getting paid and it would have cost a LOT of money. Another detail- the child and her mother (who was apparently complicit in this scheme) are Ukrainian refugees. It is possible this man has lied to the mother or is otherwise using coercive tactics against her. Anyway, I want to know where this guy got all this money and why he's not locked up in jail when he has shown himself to be a pedo pervert time and time again.

This is a mischaracterization of how AI is used for coding and how it can lead to job loss. The use case is not "have the AI develop apps entirely on its own" it's "allow one programmer to do the work of 3 programmers by using AI to write or review portions of code" and "allow people with technical knowledge who are not skilled programmers to write code that's good enough without the need for dedicated programmers." Some companies are trying to do the first one, but almost everyone is doing the second one, and it actually works. That's how AI leads to job loss. A team of 3 programmers can do what used to take a team of 10 or so on.

I'll join some kind of neo-Amish community and live without the Internet before I put up with a shitty Internet that's locked down to that extent.

Usually that works best before you burn the factory down

Idk. On one hand I really appreciate the energy but on the other hand this is kind of fucked up for everyone else that works there, and I assume there were people inside when he did this. Like what are all his coworkers going to do for work now that the factory is burned down? I know that's part of why capitalism sucks but it's not like they can do anything about it as individuals.

Man this will probably hurt the amateur chemistry community due to overreacting crackdowns, even though this is one guy who was part of that community and plenty of other people have done bombings without any interest whatsoever in amateur chem. I do think the community needs more moderation given how frequently I see dumbasses on reddit doing some extremely dangerous shit without realizing it, but this will probably get any discussion of fun chemistry banned everywhere.

EMP shielding. Nuclear explosions release an absolutely insane amount of electromagnetic energy and it fries electronics. This is actually where the first EMP was observed - a high altitude nuclear test fried a bunch of electronics. The idea is that it needs to be able to keep flying even if a nuclear blast goes off even quite some distance away. There's obviously no way to actually nuke proof a plane, it would get vaporized or knocked out of the sky if it were close to the epicenter.

Ah yes the breakup of the USSR went incredibly well, good thing there's no ongoing conflicts over disputed territory from that split up going on in Ukraine

Ah yes partitioning by foreign powers has always gone so well in the past! Why don't we try that again? I mean just look at Israel/Palestine and India/Pakistan! What great success stories 🥲

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afrikaners

This is a braindead take. The word "empire" has a lot of cultural baggage with Russian nationalism and it is totally different than say "the Spanish Empire" or "The British Empire" because when Russians say "The Russian Empire" it is specifically referring to an idea within Russian nationalism that Russia is the successor state to Rome and all of the cultural and religious ideas that come with that. The idea is that Moscow is the "Third Rome" with the first being, well, Rome, the second being Constantinople, and after the fall of Constantinople, it went to Moscow because of the unique connection of the Rus' with the Byzantine empire and Eastern Christianity. To use the term "Russian Empire" would be a huge boost to Russian nationalists and accomplish nothing substantial for anyone else.

Ngl I totally understand this one. When you're Russia it's not like you have a lot of options for international partners and the Taliban are straight up the government of Afghanistan. It's kind of awkward to try to make trade deals with one of the only countries still willing to trade with you when all of its leaders and officials are considered members of a banned terrorist organization. I suppose this is an issue any time there is a revolution, once the radicals are the actual government everyone has to re-evaluate how to deal with them.

I may legitimately lose my supposedly magical and highly important American manufacturing job because of this shit and these dumbasses think that this is all a genius move that will finally Make America Great Again. Everyone else I know who works in manufacturing is feeling the same way. One of my coworkers is mildly Trumpy and was talking about how he thinks it's a negotiation tactic and was shocked when I said I think the people in charge are just legit stupid and think tariffs will magically make things better in their own right. He didn't have anything to offer as a rebuttal he just seemed surprised that anyone would think Trump isn't a turbo genius who is secretly making 5000 IQ negotiation moves.

The historical Arians were a pretty diverse group, much like the early Christian church in general. Arius, the person whose teachings the Arians were named after, was North African, and there were Arians throughout North Africa, the Middle East, and Europe.

FYI "Aryan" is the word you're looking for. "Arian" is an early Christian sect decried as heretical in the later Roman Empire