That acerbic Seattle wit doesn't do well on Lemmy, unless you're being catty about some Linux distro
Their state media has done a number on them.
That's exactly the point I'm making.
More like drone versus "strategic targets". Infrastructure, energy, logistics, manufacturing.
Civilians will continue to suffer. Technology can't meditate away the essence of warfare - i.e. "diplomacy by other means".
21st century automated warfare won't require as many warm bodies. Few have any real idea what it will be like.
Just a few weeks ago, a Russian soldier blew his own brains out when he heard a drone approaching. I saw it myself. Modern warfare is a gruesome business.
Drones are piloted for now, but this is already changing. Fewer available soldiers won't matter. War never changes.
Sometimes it's more about the journey than the destination
My billables jumped by 25% when I switched to fully WFH. I never want to go back.
That's the game, always will be - objective truth exists, but rarely can we be sure we have it. It's wrong to presume so, but the bigger issue is in giving up the chase.
I wanna see Crispin Glover's Darth Maul.
Please don't try, that's all I'm saying
It feels like a lot of the new vocabulary and discourse that has developed in recent years has revolved around the insidious idea that reality is a matter of opinion. We focus on "optics" and bandy about "narratives", decry "fake news". We've ceased to get or even expect journalism from the news, and we aren't even surprised that flat earth screwballs still exist. We live in a world seemingly in retreat from the idea of objective truth as people talk about "my truth". Words have meaning. Objective truth exists. We forsake it at our peril.
Wrote this at 4 am so forgive the unhinged rant. Just finding the words for it now and it's been bothering me lately.
I made quesabirria de res and proveletta cheese with consomme. My little innovation is that I gave it a pat of cilantro garlic compound butter with flake salt on top. I'm gonna die happy. These are the best tacos I've ever made. They taste better than being thin, god help me.
Living in a walkable city means my weekly shop is a few hours of walking or biking instead of being stuck in traffic, and I'm only mildly tired afterwards since I use a bike with pretty large pannier bags. Since I have no car related costs I can afford more fresh food, a healthier diet, and I can afford to be more choosy about the ethics of what I buy. There's a twice weekly farmers market about a ten minute walk away, and quiet walks through parks to get to the shops. Living somewhere with car centric infrastructure, as I used to, this lifestyle was far less feasible.
Have your experiences been different with moving to walkable/bikeable cities? Any questions or points to be made? I'm not very up on the theory side of city planning, but my experiences line up with the whole "fuck cars" thing.
Absurdity is cruel, and cruelty is absurd.
But those tomatoes really stole the show
I'm shaking rn
These are basically samoas (the Girl Scout cookie) built on top of full sized Scottish shortbreads, laden with caramel, toasted coconut, and dipped in chocolate. Normal samoas are designed so you can eat the whole box before you hate yourself. These accomplish that aim with just one.
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