giantofthenorth 10 months ago • 85%
I think it's important enough to note, there's no evidence showing this was the plan in any Soviet campaign in WW2. (But this is based off memory so there could be a single digit number of times)
In WW1? That would be accurate. Say what you will about Soviets but weapons were something they could produce and properly supply unlike the tsar.
In the Ukraine war though you are probably correct.
giantofthenorth 11 months ago • 100%
I can go point by point in his comment, but the core issue I am point out applies to all of it. We have the laws to have prevented this, we have the tools needed to stop so many mass shootings. But the overwhelming majority of the time cops don't enforce the laws, they're either incompetent, lazy or refuse to do the job they signed up for.
You can have every law in the world, you can have the best piece of legislation that perfectly outlines and covers every single possibility, but if nobody enforces it you don't have shit.
Guns in society can exist just fine, they already are one of the smallest types used in Violent crimes, we can repeal the NFA and get back fully automatic weapons and still be safe if we could have a functioning police force that enforces the laws that matter instead of revenue generating ones.
giantofthenorth 11 months ago • 27%
It's amazing how much you have typed just to completely ignore the entire point of my argument. Please get some reading comprehension.
giantofthenorth 11 months ago • 35%
This article is terrible, Maine has yellow flag laws, which is a much more constitutionally acceptable version of red flag laws. the family did what they were supposed to do, it seems likely (they won't talk about it) that the cops once again won't do their jobs and because of that even more people died.
We already have the laws needed to prevent the majority of mass shootings but unless we get better cops no law will meaningfully help and tyrants will use this as an excuse to just get rid of guns rather than maintain rights, not alienate half the country and actually solve the other underlying problems.
giantofthenorth 11 months ago • 100%
Yeah, our cops are horrible and legal system ain't great either.
giantofthenorth 11 months ago • 100%
What we know so far, the guy was also committed to an asylum for hearing voices telling him to kill people.
Seems like yet another failure of people not doing their jobs yet again.
I'm currently using an Astro mixamp (2011 version) for my headphones but it's starting to die, I don't really know much about dacs/amps or what my options are to replace it with something better? I mostly use my setup for gaming, with some music listening or creation here and there, and I'd like to keep the price at or below 200$
giantofthenorth 11 months ago • 100%
I'm fairly fresh into act 3, just did the shadowheart part and man, that was heavy.
Definitely gonna be doing a new play though with my opposite choices though.
I do gotta say, I'm enjoying the challenge of tactician but man does my lvl 11 monk suck and is just so squishy, anyone got any recommendations to strengthen her up to take more than 2 hits?
giantofthenorth 11 months ago • 100%
Karlach, 100%, she starts to grow more in act 3 too, though shadowheart does the whole story.
giantofthenorth 12 months ago • 93%
Maybe not 100% of the time but at least 80-90% of the time it's always the police, or DA failing to do their job properly. If you're pending a felony trial you cannot own/buy guns until you're proven innocent, and they should be confiscated. I cannot imagine how this man would not be chargeable.
Similar goes for many shootings, they plea down to a lesser charge or the cops just don't do their job and let go obvious crimes.
giantofthenorth 12 months ago • 100%
I haven't looked into them, but I'd bet they're just in a both mature and oversaturated market. There's not much they can do to gain new people, everyone knows what Netflix is across all first world markets and a corpo won't care about the others.
giantofthenorth 12 months ago • 100%
Here's what I've done when attempting at my workplace via the postal workers union.
Get in contact with an organizer, they are there to help guide you or who ever wants to be the main leader of this effort. I will say, as the lead organizer in my attempt, it's just talking a lot, and getting people to a meeting, it kinda sucks but isn't a huge ordeal to do, and takes maybe 2 hours in a busy week.
I went through the AFL-CIO website aflcio.org/formaunion and filled out my information, during my major attempt it took half a week to get in contact with an organizer, though it could take a bit longer.
You'll get in contact with an organizer and they'll get a rundown of your workplace and what it looks like.
After that there's about an hour's worth of training to know your rights and what works for your union.
Then you'll be pretty much ready to go to start talking with coworkers to try and get an organizing committee (10% of your workplace) which will be your main coworkers who should be all about the idea, after that 10% then you'll start convincing everyone in your workplace and soon after that collect signatures.
Then you'll go to an election, sadly I do not have much information to get beyond here as the movement fell apart in my workplace during signatures due to a weak organizing committee.
Hope this helps ya out and if you want any additional information I'm happy to share, we need more unions especially in IT!
giantofthenorth 12 months ago • 100%
I've asked the same thing to my organizer and it was basically telecom is the closest to it under the AFL-CIO umbrella, and i believe he said they may end up getting an IT specific union once enough get unionized.
giantofthenorth 12 months ago • 100%
As everyone else has said if you feel like the speed is fine, stick with it, but before you upgrade your next GPU maybe up that CPU next. I'd recommend going with any AMD X3D CPU that should help your performance the most and maybe it'll be your next 12 year old CPU if you go x800x3d or higher
giantofthenorth 12 months ago • 50%
The most famous victims of all, armed men in broad daylight with firearms.
giantofthenorth 1 year ago • 98%
Love that most of the world's governments came together and said "collective punishment is bad, we should make it illegal during times of war" and shit like this can still fly within any first world country.
giantofthenorth 1 year ago • 100%
Why wouldn't we? The PS5 is already 3* years old, most cycles are around 7 years
giantofthenorth 1 year ago • 100%
I've seen phone games look better
giantofthenorth 1 year ago • 90%
Imma say it, he's kinda based, evades taxes and "illegally" owns guns, free my boy.
giantofthenorth 1 year ago • 95%
if only they were this serious about actually completing their "new" "game"
giantofthenorth 1 year ago • 50%
Glad I haven't played a cod game in years.
There's already a report button if someone has an issue with it let them report it, this is just going to lead to a ton of false positives or be completely useless.
giantofthenorth 1 year ago • 87%
I'm someone who studies history a lot.
Everything you said could be replaced with 1910-14 as the current year and you'd be pretty close to prevailing opinions of the day.
Wars need men. Well trained men ideally, but he who has the numbers usually wins.
In WW1 It took 3-6 months to churn through the professionals, in WW2 I don't recall off hand but we're looking at months. In Vietnam it did take 5 years yes, but that's not the kind of war that Europe is or should be preparing for. In Ukraine it seems likely to be around 9 months, for Russia at least (unless you're paratroopers then 3 days).
Outside of huge technological and leadership gaps you need the bigger army to win and that's why conscription is the necessary evil.
giantofthenorth 1 year ago • 93%
You are by no means wrong. But outside of ancapistan types, I think everyone can say the governments job is to protect it's citizens from would be invaders. With world tensions rising along with various other crisis' it's just the best move, being prepared for the worst and taking precautions.Trained vs untrained soldiers could be the difference between 500 casualties and 2500 (the infamous German school battalions of WW1 for example)
It's one of the few actual necessary evils, unless your country is on the offensive of course.
giantofthenorth 1 year ago • 100%
You should check out plusschraupe on Instagram for their hamster "cages" if you wanna see something even bigger
But this one is very cool
giantofthenorth 1 year ago • 100%
To be fair, Austin has to be not far behind LA as some of the worst. Everything in Texas is made for cars only basically.
giantofthenorth 1 year ago • 100%
Don't forget for trying to form a union too!
giantofthenorth 1 year ago • 93%
I do still lose by having to over pay the bloodsuckers either way 👉😎👉
General financials: I can afford to pay them off in full and have plenty left over for general life needs The interest rates on them should be 4.53% according to their chart of when it was awarded. If I do hold onto the money and pay off monthly I can put everything into a CD but I'll still be losing .03% if I lock in the student loan money maybe I'll beat but .07-.43% so not a ton of upside unless there's sudden political will to actually follow through on student loan forgiveness. Is there anything else I'm missing when considering this? I am leaning towards just pay off as I've been planning for this, but I want to make sure there isn't something else to do.
giantofthenorth 1 year ago • 100%
Subsidize/pay off entirely local farmers for this year based off of 2022 earnings, ship the grain through an inland route to the Mediterranean and get it to the third world countries that need it.
Farmers aren't that large in number and don't make a ton of profit, seems like it's a bit expensive mostly in shipping but you could also be the politicians to prevent a humanitarian disaster not that far from your borders helping prevent another refugee crisis which much of Europe would riot over and could be the final boost needed for the already rising far right.
giantofthenorth 1 year ago • 100%
What a dogshit article.
Sure what sen. Blum. Said taken out of context is bad but the people he's trying to get some support out of with his statement is the right wingers/capitalist types to be less anti us support in Ukraine.
Romney as always is indefensible.
From real Politik perspective they're 100% right based off only the title.
From real life they're correct that helping Ukraine helps the USA indirectly and even if somehow lives weren't being lost to this war it would still help the military industrial complex greatly in ways that actually benefit the USA at least somewhat (we're tossing out a bunch of outdated, expensive to maintain vehicles and getting up to date ones instead) and this is one of the rare times that the USA is doing something for a relatively good cause for once.
I get this is an anti war publication but be fucking real, war ain't leaving anytime soon, every ideology, tribe, government type, and religion has and will again engage in it with very few exceptions. And those exceptions usually mean tiny island tribes where there's no land to conquer/reclaim/defend
giantofthenorth 1 year ago • 85%
Damn. Maybe he should run again so we can at least get a good old man in office
giantofthenorth 1 year ago • 100%
There's plenty of 2010-2015ish cars with dogshit radios that are hard to find, expensive to get or literally impossible to find good replacements for, thanks to vehicle manufacturers killing of the DIN system.
giantofthenorth 1 year ago • 7%
It's pretty easy to point to how he's getting his son handled in court. While a far cry from trying to overthrow the government it is corruption regardless.
giantofthenorth 1 year ago • 100%
I'll fuck her before she's cooled off. Hot tieflings need love too.
giantofthenorth 1 year ago • 100%
I just beat tcg2, I'm onto the end game content trying to get that 50 wins in a row
giantofthenorth 1 year ago • 96%
If they're willing to make sacrifices why not ~1-2 hours a week dedicated to unionizing their workplace
giantofthenorth 1 year ago • 100%
All of those things are within the dedication to privacy. A lot of upfront time commitment but near effortless after the fact. On desktop it's even easier.
giantofthenorth 1 year ago • 50%
Unless there's something beyond switching DNS, using a VPN and your own router/modem. It's maybe 100$ up front and ~3-5 per month to be able to circumvent any telecom.
giantofthenorth 1 year ago • 100%
Hope this is what he wanted
giantofthenorth 1 year ago • 21%
Anyone celebrating this is a fool.
This will lead to more spying on you, gives police even more power, and offers you only less noise for how many cars?
Trees, greenery and better housing design might solve the issue or make it not bad.
Self reporting, followed by an inspection to verify the car's sound could solve this issue.
But more surveillance for another ones of the world surveillance states is so fucking stupid.
giantofthenorth 1 year ago • 55%
I don't know if you know this, but it's pretty easy for someone to make private their phone, search history, etc. You just need to be a little dedicated and sacrifice some usability.
You cannot do the same with microphones listening everywhere that you do not own.
Have some sense.
giantofthenorth 1 year ago • 75%
I beat this game a few years ago and i cannot for the life of me remember anything about it