Quick way to tell: when it was functioning, did it appear as a 6, or a 12 TB drive? If it appeared as 12, that means you were using RAID 0.

Is it RAID0, or RAID1? If it's the former, you're fucked. No problem if RAID1.

I love that they added a separate line item for number of submarines killed. LOL.

I love this guy's channel. Two of my other favorite things he's done are: Uppest Case / Lowest Case, and that time he Reverse Emulated a NES.

... Ok, fair. 11,000 years was the wrong cut-off date. 12 - 13,000 years would have illustrated my point better.

You are entirely correct that the agreement itself did not obligate the US to take any action in the case of aggression against Ukraine unless it included the use of nuclear weapons. However, the main point of the agreement was that the US, the UK, and Russia all made a commitment to Ukraine to respect its independence, sovereignty, and territorial borders. A lot of diplomatic negotiations had to occur behind the scenes to make that happen. For Russia to sign this treaty, then 20 years later violate it without the other signatories even so much as lifting a finger in protest is pretty unconscionable.

But you are right. I worded my initial post poorly by implying that the US had obligations to defend Ukraine. In the legal sense, they did not. I will argue, however, that in a moral sense, they very much did.

I mean, better late than never. Still, I would have loved to see us doing what we're currently doing back in 2014. If we'd done that, Russia would probably not have invaded a second time.

Edit: Alternatively, we could have not induced Ukraine to destroy its nuclear stockpile, in which case Russia would never have invaded them in the first place. Of course, I'm torn on this one, as more nuclear weapons = more chance for the total annhiliation of all humanity. So, I'd prefer they remove their nukes, and we defend them as promised.

Not even anywhere near that long. There have been humans for probably more than 200,000 years. Probably more. It gets confusing when you go back that far. But our written history only accounts for maybe 10,000 of those years. So 5% of total human history, if we take the minimum estimate of what it takes for us to be human. We have no evidence to support the fact that human advancement even lasts as long as written history. I mean, shit... the Romans had central heating and cement, and then they died out and we forgot how to do those things for 1,000 years. Our knowledge, and the acquisition of same is not exactly linear. Lots of fits and starts over the course of the various human civilizations that have occurred.

What happened 11,000 years ago? I mean, we've got some pottery fragments. Other than that, ???

Depends on your definition of "long-term". The biggest accomplishments of Man have been acknowledged for maybe 10,000 years at the very extreme limits. 10,000 years is not even a drop in the bucket of geological or celestial time. So it very much depends on your perspective.

'Cause I'm drunk on a Thursday (Friday very early in the morning), and I've lost control of my life.

What's hilarious about this is that the Tankies are kind of right, that Russia invading Ukraine is at least partially the US' fault. Of course, this is more of a "A broken clock is right twice per day" kind of thing. The US promised Ukraine that it would defend them from Russian aggression in order to get them to sign the Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances in 1994, which got them to destroy their nuclear stockpile. Until that point, Ukraine actually had the world's 3rd largest stockpile of nuclear weapons due to their Soviet heritage. Then, Russia invaded Ukraine in 2014, and the US did nothing. So Russia felt confident in invading once again in February of 2022. If the US had stuck to their word in the Budapest Memorandum, Russia would not have attempted to invade them again. But, alas, the US was too concerned with Russia's nuclear stockpile to do anything other than send Ukraine MREs back in 2014. So, here we are.

Shit - I love "Commandos". Such a rad game.

I'd watch that tape.

See - shit like this is why I don't really get my hopes up for the UAP hearings. Trump randomly throws out nuclear secrets just to impress people, because he's a dumb piece of shit. Does anybody really think that idiot could keep his trap shut about proof of alien life?

MLA format would be something like this:

Maneuver, The Picard. The Delusion. Picard, 2023.

Then, in your paper, to reference it, just write "(Maneuver 2023)".

Definitely makes sense. They know they can't count on the Kerch bridge being there. Still, with the heavy fortifications they've got around Tokmak, it feels premature to abandon it. I welcome it, of course, but it really feels like a lynch pin.

That's... one hell of a goodwill gesture. Calling Tokmak "strategically important" is kind of burying the lede. All of the rail transport from Russia to Zaporizhia, Kherson, and Crimea go through Tokmak. Gerasimov's "goodwill gesture" would mean that Russia would be unable to effectively supply the vast majority if its current holdings in Ukraine. They'd have to rely on road transportation (which is all within range of HIMARs), sea transportation (which is vulnerable to drones), or air transportation (which in addition to being totally insufficient, would also be in range of a lot of AA systems). Basically, he's saying that the war is over.

... Or you could just read a history book that wasn't written by a Mao fanboi.

First time on the internet?

It's kind of shocking to see a politician standing by their principles, and stepping away from a position of power when their priciples clash with the stance of the organization they were a part of. Good for him.

I love this book! I first read it, I don't know, maybe 20 years ago, back when Pargrin (he went by David Wong then) posted one chapter of it at a time on his website. A few years after he got it published, Don Coscarelli (director; does mostly indie movies including the "Phantasm" series) read the book, flipped out about it, and decided to buy the rights to the story and make it into a movie. It's a pretty great adaptation, too! I'd rate it as mostly faithful to the source material. It's got Paul Giamatti, Clancy Brown, and Doug Jones in it.

Anyway, if you like JDATE, you should check out Coscarelli's movie of the same name. And also read the rest of the books in the series (book 4 was published about a year ago). And if you like the movie, you should also check out another Coscarelli classic, "Bubba Ho-Tep", starring Bruce Campbell as Elvis.

Hey - I read through some of your post history to get the back story. I know we're strangers, but I just wanted to say that I'm proud of you, and I'm happy that you're seeing positive progress on your journey, even if it's just a "simple win". It's rough not being able to count on your parents to have your back. I hope you have someone else in your life to at least partially fill that hole, but if not... just keep posting, and keep going. Strangers on the internet being proud of you and happy for you is a poor substitute for parental affection, but hopefully it's at least something. You got this. <3

I mean, that's just realpolitik. It's more advantageous for Ukraine to have Russian nazis attacking Russia than it is to denouce them and deprive them of an operating base. Ultimately, the Russian Volunteer Corps' interests are aligned with Ukraine's interests in that they both want to depose Putin. As odious as it is, it's the way global politics are done.

I had to take a friend of mine to her colonoscopy today, and this was the first thing I saw when firing up lemmy after getting home. It's like the universe is committed to trolling.

Translation: Bjørn Gulden is putting out feelers to see if Kanye is still universally hated for his antisemitic comments so he can decide whether it would be a good business decision to reinstate the Yeezy line.

To be fair, Anton Chigurh also flipped a coin to decide people's fate, and that dude was fucking terrifying. And he didn't even use a gun. Most of the time, anyway.

LOL wut? Fuckin' Tankies and making shit up. Can anybody name a more iconic duo? The protestors were pro-democracy and were shot / squished by the CCP. It wasn't even that long ago, either. Only, what, 34 years? Amazing how much people can twist shit in such a short period of time.

Nah, your weird attempts at persuasion via stilted language

I'm not sure you know what the word "stilted" means.

are real fuckin tiring already and I just joined this conversation.

Ok. Well, you're under no obligation to post. Thank you for your contribution, though.

Ok, so I guess we can add "poor reading comprehension" to the list.

I did not make excuses for nazis. The person that I was responding to made an incredibly slippery slope argument, and I was using hyperbole to point that out. If you don't understand that, I suggest you take a remedial class in English at your local community college.

No, I had very good reason to insult them. If you would like to know my reasons, I'm more than happy to discuss it.

So, does that mean that you cannot articulate an answer, or just that you don't choose to?

Everyone that disagrees with @bucho@lemmy.one is insane and deluded, a bedtime story for smug crybully liberals.

Well, I didn't say that. You did. And I disagree with it. What I said is that "hexbearians" are generally delusional, and I feel pretty vindicated in that assessment by the many, many posts by them in this thread. As an example of delusion, you decided that you know enough about me to infer that I believe that everybody whose opinions differ from my own must be delusional, despite very little evidence to back that claim up.

Fucking rich that you cry about “combativeness” when you lead with the above post.

Pointing something out that is true is not crying. And yes. You're very combative.

Uh... how's that, then? Don't worry - I don't work as a road paver.

I agree. Your mods suck.

I've seen that in a lot of threads, and there never really seems to be a common definition for what that actually means. Could you enlighten the class?

... Ok. You've already contributed several times to the "delusional" pile of evidence, but more is always appreciated, I suppose. Thank you for your eagerness.

Well, that post is actually where I learned about you lot. Granted, I'd heard quite a bit about tankies beforehand, but just never realized how far divorced from reality y'all actually are. Then, I was greeted with a whole horde of absolute morons with such incredibly braindead takes that I felt compelled to ask a couple of them if they had suffered brain damage as a child. It was that question which got me banned, actually. Asking if they had been dropped on their heads as a kid.

And it made me realize that in addition to being delusional, y'all are also generally crybabies to boot.

That's a mighty big leap there, skipper. The nazis also occasionally paved roads. Does that mean that all DoT workers are secretly nazis, too?

Seriously though, you are the one saying that we are not “sane” because we don’t believe in your liberal delusions.

That is some nazi shit.

See - this is a perfect illustration of the "delusional" aspect I mentioned. You are so far up your own backside that you believe everybody who doesn't believe the specific set of things you do are nazis, or reminiscent of same. It's why no sane, rational person should ever take you seriously.

I applaud you, actually. You jumped to provide concrete examples backing up my thesis immediately. Super bro move of you.