radiosimian

joined 7 months ago
[–] radiosimian@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

Talking about cars in the UK, one Aussie chimed in with "it's like driving your car on the beach at low tide while it's high tide"

[–] radiosimian@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

I usually steer clear of religion but the Rorschach test idea is amazing, never looked at it that way until now. Cheers!

[–] radiosimian@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

I think most rational people would like an opposition party who brings good ideas with solid justification to the table. A group of professional politicians who argue in good faith, working for the betterment of their electorate. People who can at least be respected by the international community, willing to tackle the real problems facing the world as a whole.

If we're talking about dictatorship perhaps it's worth scrutinising the people arguing for total immunity for the president. It's especially worth an in-depth look at the relationships they form with leaders of other nations and the principles they share.

[–] radiosimian@lemmy.world 16 points 5 months ago (1 children)

As a non-US person, I want to point out that US politics has shifted so far to the right that centrists in any other country would look like far left to you.

[–] radiosimian@lemmy.world 31 points 5 months ago (8 children)

A heads-up to anyone running old laptops; buy genuine replacement batteries while they're available!

I have an aging XPS 13 and of course, Dell have discontinued the battery line. Opened it up one day and every cell had puffed out. It took buying a couple of fakes before finally finding a decent reseller on eBay who stocked what I needed. The fake batteries were not recognised by Dell's hardware detection system thing, I imagine lots of other manufacturers might implement the same feature.

[–] radiosimian@lemmy.world 20 points 5 months ago

And you sound like someone who puts their political stooges on a pedestal.

[–] radiosimian@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

It's like the Fonz jumping the shark all over again.

[–] radiosimian@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

And with the decline in birth rates armies are going to have smaller pools of people to recruit from. Even the US army is experiencing a shortfall, and it's not getting better any time soon. Perun did a great video of this just recently.

It makes sense that if militaries won't be able to recruit the quantity and quality of troops that they would like to, they'd need to supplement those numbers with some kind of force multiplier.

https://piped.video/watch?v=Ga2PA-vEiFk

[–] radiosimian@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago

Replace 'Trump' with 'Russia'.

They are both entangled in a fight for survival. Both of them need the support of the US people if they have any hope of making it. It's imperative for either party that they win this and nothing is off the table when it comes to politics or influence.

There is an existential war at hand and none of the embattled parties give two shits about the aftermath.

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