NGL you’re right, this is pretty crazy

I read that and then imagined it was a lecture by some sort of an insect, likely an ant-type, wearing a monocle and a top hat.

Imagine having that smart-arse teenager be that annoying for like, a few decades.

Or just… the emotionality that comes with hormones. Although one would imagine since elves do end up being more wise and whatnot, that they sort of start gathering more wisdom even though it’s slower to start with. As in, they’d be horny like a teenager for a decade or two, but they’d learn to somewhat manage it after the first five years.

Sarumon, nice typo.

Popeball

So basically they went through extra effort to teach you what masturbation is?

Nice.

An investigation conducted by the agency found that the woman had not recently been exposed to fresh water but had performed the nasal irrigation using non-boiled water from the RV’s potable water faucet “on several occasions” before her illness.

The potable water tank, the investigation found, was filled before the woman bought the RV three months ago and could have contained contaminated water. The investigation also concluded that the municipal water system, which was connected to the potable water system and bypassed the tank, could have caused the contamination.

A bit misleading to put so definitely “tap water” in the headline when this was 3 month old RV water.

“Son, if you’re interested in biology, you’ll have to learn to understand that the definitions of terms are rather… loose.”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Species

I mean it’s very often used in that way, but evolutionary psychology isn’t quite the same as phrenology. To be clear, there are definitely people who are using evolutionary psychology to justify their racism, but like… how would you discuss the evolution of depression unless you’re speculating about something that could be considered to be evolutionary psychology?

I mean I guess you could argue that all psychology is sort of just a byproduct, but that hardly seems scientific at all.

So while I’m equally concerned about racists and bigots using pseudoscience to justify their backwards beliefs, I don’t believe the whole approach of evolutionary psychology is complete bunk.

Please do enlighten me if you can.

You know what else is pretty unfalsifiable, but still pretty darn usable? Proto-Indo-European, but I’m pretty sure they’ve got some of it right.

To compare Libya and Iraq to an all out attack on Russia by some imagine combined European pan-national military is just… ugh, too naive for me to even be care about writing a breakdown for.

Enjoy your weekend

“The first blow was delivered to the locomotive, after which the train began to lose speed and was stopped. The enemy destroyed most of the equipment without hindrance.”

Seems to mean something like “guide”.

My phones translator translates it as guide in English, Finnish and Swedish and from all those three the same so I’d say it with some certainty it’s more or less correct.

Googling gives “Madrikh” (מְדְרִיך) is a Hebrew word meaning “guide” or “leader”. It can also refer to a specific program or role within Jewish communities, like a Jewish professional who guides and serves their community."

Here’s a somewhat reliable seeming source talking about it

“After Netanyahu finished giving millions of dollars to Hamas, he moved on to giving weapons to organizations close to ISIS in Gaza, all off the cuff, all without strategic planning, all leading to more disasters,” Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid said on social media.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/israel-hamas-war-netanyahu-arming-gangs-gaza-clans-activated/

Thanks.

I’ve had training. And I’m not talking about my military training, but the several years I spent in customer service.

Big bad neo-Nazis afraid of showing their faces.

Cowards.

Ukraine soldiers are trained for 3 months. There can’t be much infrastructure needed for an attack since the battle is on enemy territory when it starts.

Dude. Stop. You don’t know what you’re talking about, and every addition is making it more cringe.

I have the training to train basic jaegers in two weeks. Those are the simple infantry for the front. More specialised soldiers, like NCO’s, especially specialist NCO’s like me, take far longer to train. You know in strategy games it takes longer and costs more to churn our specialised soldiers?

Imagine that you have a league of legends/starcraft/CIV game going and at more than halfway through you decide to just sell all your units and pivot entirely? How would that ever make sense in any game, if not as some weird YouTube challenge? No actual pro-player would ever try something as silly.

That’s a rhetorical example that I hope will convey some of what I’m trying to communicate, since you don’t seem to understand how complex military strategy on a national level is. It’s not like a sentence or two. It’s systems upon systems relying on other systems which are regulated by resources or practical necessities, leaning on other things which are dictated by something else entirely etc etc.

Iraq, Libya and others. At worst we call it a special military operation in support of Ukraine.

So you’re genuinely advocating breaking international law? You don’t actually care about morals? That’s… off-putting, to say the least.

“After these comments…”

Was it you who commented earlier in the thread about something something “fantasy, not reality”? Because you live in some weird warmongering fantasy war fetish laa-laa land. There’s no fucking NSA looking at what people have been writing if you’re conscripted to be infantry. You’re taught how to march, then how to obey, then given a gun, taught how to shoot it, then how to shoot it while moving forward, then taught how to move forwards while shooting it under enemy fire, then how to move while shooting while under enemy fire and communicating with your group (or listening to your group leader/fighting pair).

So, which country is it then? Because you’re saying “we will attack…” but see if there was an offensive from Europe to Russia, it’s highly likely I would be fighting, but I suspect you wouldn’t.

So perhaps stop it with the childish warmongering.

Edit and yes, there is a need to wait for Ukraine EU membership, which there’s attempts to rush through, but international politics don’t work as willy-nilly as online forums. You can’t pretend to ignore global geopolitics.

I don’t think you understand just how large thing a country’s entire military strategy is. You don’t just up and change it like getting a new patch on your favourite game.

There’s infra built literally almost a century ago for these very purposes, the entire reserve would need to be retrained basically.

That’s how we’ve been able to keep Russia from attacking us since the previous bout; by being extremely prepared to defend against an attack.

Also, surely you’re aware that wars of aggression are banned in international law? We can’t just attack Russia with thr combined might of EU armies, as it stands rn.

That’s why we need to get Ukraine to the EU, so that then it’s not a war of aggression, but honoring the mutual defense clause.

That’s also why Russia is pulling off their sabotage like cutting cables and jamming GPS, etc. Because as long as it’s not a direct military attack, EU cannot respond with military force.

Oh and, in which country’s military forces would you be participating in this attack fantasy?

Because the lawmakers are easily led idiots?

Easy to say. You say “we will attack” so I assume you — like me — are part of at least some European military?

I’m in the Finnish Defence Forces. Our entire military strategy is based around defending an attack from Russia, not actively attacking it.