MrEff

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[–] MrEff@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It shouldn't. Older mags with poor tolerances and poorly designed followers used to have this issue and that is where people got into the habit of saying/doing/teaching that. Newer mags with better openings and followers no longer have this issue. This is true for both the AR and the AK platforms, the two most popular platforms in the world.

[–] MrEff@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

I did human intelligence. It was literally my job to interact with the people. And we did. And not just to hear what they say to our face, but to get sources and find out what people say behind our backs too. I can, with high confidence, say that close to 90% of the population wanted the taliban gone. It was the other 10% that were the issue. And they were the very loud minority that news stations loved to interview just to claim "accurately showing both sides".

Under taliban rule Afghanistan was economically devastated and the second poorest country in the world. They had one of the lowest literacy rates in the world. And they had no healthcare system to speak of other than what was gifted to them from Iran or Pakistan depending of what half of the country you were in. No to mention their lack of infrastructure with the not even completed one highway ring around the country.

That all changed under ISAF and the people noticed. And now their past is about to become their future.

[–] MrEff@lemmy.world 98 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

Lol. I did two tours over there. The people loved us. They loved the government. They loved the schools for women. The problem is culturally, they didn't see a need to fight for it because of apathy. They figured "ISAF was always going to be here, so why need to fight for ourselves? And is ISAF isn't here anymore, then we can't support our selves, so why try?" As far as the schools go, they are voluntary. There are no truancy laws. They don't even take attendance at most of the schools. It was completely up to the family if they wanted to send their boys OR their girls. Under pre-ISAF taliban the literacy rate was about 15% and at the time of withdrawal it was almost 40%. The people wanted to go to school, the taliban just didn't let most of them or the schools that they did keep open were so severely limited in what they could teach.

The biggest red flag of this post, to me, is the use of the word Afghani. Any time someone says it with an 'i' at the end, you know they don't know what they are talking about. Afghani is a currency, Afghan is a person.

[–] MrEff@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Look up TASS news. That is all.

[–] MrEff@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I would also add:

I like to only make (cloud), so when people ask me for cloud(s) I can just give them (cloud)(cloud)(cloud). It's the same thing and also more accessible.

[–] MrEff@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] MrEff@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago (4 children)

I would also encourage people to go to midnight showings of Tommy Wiseau's 'The Room' and watch as people throw handfuls of plastic spoons at the screen. Also fun.

[–] MrEff@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

You either lost money, or you lost time. If you are implying that you lost nothing because you didn't cash out and therefore can wait for a rebound, then you are going to lose the time you have to wait for the rebound. In economics that is also called an opportunity cost. You have now lost the opportunity to invest that money into something profitable because you have now tied it up in something that is unprofitable. You still lost. You are just too dumb to realize it with this mentality.

Worst case is when people with this mentality ride a stock to the bottom insisting it will just take more time to come back, and it doesn't. Then forcing the person to lose both the money and the time.

[–] MrEff@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

I miss HEB. family owned and private. Thus why they get away with treating their employees so well, paying them well, and supporting their communities all while also being the largest private employer in the state of Texas. That company is a great example of how a company can both grow to a large size and not be evil. If they ever go public you know all of its charm will instantly get cut in the name of shareholder value.

[–] MrEff@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'm going to be honest here, as an American I fully support you in this and hope the best for Canada. Many of us totally understand the resentment and know that our government and republican party asked for this. I hope the boycotts work and I hope they send the clearest message back. At the same time I don't have much faith I our leadership to react rationally.

[–] MrEff@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago

This article is written with some wild speculations by both the author of the article and the source they are quoting. When cell phones are cracked for evidence they have to use write blockers when they copy the phone. They do the analysis on the copy. The original is then re-copied in court to show what was found. This way the original is never tampered with and made inadmissible, and whatever analysis bullshit you did isn't mixed in with your court room copy. What this also means is that your AI can hallucinate all it wants and make up any evidence you can imagine all day long, but when you get into the court room and have to then point to where the conclusions came from and you can't-you will be standing there with a dick on your forehead and with a case being tossed out.

[–] MrEff@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

Think of a more direct democracy. I will oversimplify enough to annoy those from Switzerland:

Differing levels of law require differing thresholds. Country votes on a law, the majority above the required threshold vote it in. It becomes a national law. That is easy. What about when it fails? Then look to the state level. Did it pass the threshold for your state? Yes? Then it is a state law. Failed state level? Let's look at your county/city/local level. Passed threshold? Local law.

Again, over simplified, but general idea.

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