Phrogdriver
815 posts
Better looking? Maybe, maybe not, but it's crushed a lot of good men.
Chris_'OH-58D/F-14'-SIMP 🇩🇪🇩🇰🇨🇭🎗️@Chris_OH58D
I will challenge you. Name a better looking aircraft. You cannot do it!
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@MattWalshBlog Yeah, well PTSD would disagree with you. I don’t like taking that shit. I hate it. But I do function better taking it and I’m not as big of an asshole to my family anymore. I don’t like it, but it’s worth it. Oh, and no nightmares every night is also nice.
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It has very recently become acceptable to express skepticism about anti-depressants and anti-anxiety meds. The skeptics used to be angrily shouted down (I know from experience). But the skepticism is meaningless if it doesn’t go all the way and question the fundamental premise. These medications aren’t just “overprescribed.” They should never be prescribed at all. Anxiety and depression are not literal diseases, and any attempt to treat them as such is doomed to fail. We are witnessing the failure right now.
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@Jringo1508 Also, if there was a civilization ending event for those other species, it’s far more likely in my mind that it was AI rather than a nuclear war.
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Some answers to Fermi's paradox:
1. If Terra had 10% more gravity, you couldn't get out of the gravity well with chemical rockets. You'd just be stuck unless you invented some type of anti-gravity.
2. Terra is 'Goldilocks.' We can't see other rocky planets very well, yet, but we have a bunch of examples in the Sol system. And Terra looks different. We have missing crust which means deep oceans and with tectonics material turn-over and long lived atmosphere. Much of this involves an unusually large orbiter. Mars, Venus, Mercury, Titan, don't have these things. Throw all the 'odd' stuff in with earth (that our sun is long lived and fairly stable) and you end up with 'it's gonna be really odd if we find another planet in the galaxy, especially close, that's close to 'earthlike.' Without all those 'things' (the above is a limited list) megafauna and megaflora probably won't exist.
3. Species have lifetimes. You can probably add 'civilization.' They rise, they fall, they go extinct. There are very few that have not over enough time. So... There might have been galaxy spanning species... And they're probably extinct. (The other filter.)
We might not be alone in the universe (unlikely) but pretty good odds we're alone in the galaxy.
𝗖𝘂𝗯𝗮 𝗰𝗼𝗻 𝗛 𝗱𝗲 𝗢𝗿𝘁𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗳𝗶́𝗮@CubaOrtografia
La Paradoja de Fermi es una pregunta famosa formulada por el físico Enrico Fermi en 1950 durante una conversación informal en Los Álamos. La idea es sencilla y devastadora: - El universo es enorme (miles de millones de galaxias, cada una con miles de millones de estrellas). - Muchas estrellas son antiguas y tienen planetas en la zona habitable. - La vida apareció relativamente rápido en la Tierra. - La inteligencia y la tecnología también (en escala cósmica). Si existiera aunque sea una sola civilización capaz de viajar o enviar señales interestelares, debería haber colonizado o al menos dejado evidencia detectable en toda la galaxia en pocos millones de años (un parpadeo cósmico). Entonces… ¿dónde está todo el mundo? Esta es la paradoja: según las probabilidades (ecuación de Drake), el cosmos debería estar rebosante de vida inteligente y evidencia de ella. Pero no vemos nada, ni señales de radio, ni megastructuras, ni sondas, ni colonias. Solo silencio. Las principales respuestas son: - Somos los primeros (o estamos muy solos). - Las civilizaciones se autodestruyen antes de volverse interestelares (el "Gran Filtro"). - Se esconden, ya están aquí pero no las vemos, o usan tecnologías que no detectamos. - O simplemente la vida inteligente es mucho más rara de lo que creemos. Ahora viene la parte Fermi aplicada a la izquierda, especialmente al socialismo y al comunismo. Llevan más de 150 años prometiendo el paraíso terrenal: "Esta vez sí va a funcionar" "El verdadero socialismo no ha sido probado" "Solo falta una buena implementación" "Con más poder y más dinero público, esta vez alcanzaremos la utopía sin clases, sin pobreza, sin opresión..." Es decir; teóricamente, debería haber funcionado ya decenas de veces. Tienen: - Teorías elaboradísimas (Marx, Lenin, Gramsci, etc.). - Millones de intelectuales, activistas y votantes convencidos. - Oportunidades históricas incontables (Rusia 1917, China 1949, Cuba 1959, Vietnam, Camboya, Nicaragua, Venezuela, Bolivia, etc.). - Control total del Estado en múltiples ocasiones. - Apoyo masivo de medios, academia y cultura durante décadas. Entonces… ¿dónde están los resultados? Si el socialismo/comunismo fuera tan superior como dicen, debería haber al menos un ejemplo claro, próspero, libre y exitoso que la gente quiera copiar voluntariamente. No uno fallido tras otro, sino un país que diga: "Miren, aquí lo logramos". Pero solo hay silencio… o excusas: - "No era verdadero socialismo" - "Fue sabotaje imperialista" - "Faltó más radicalidad" Exactamente como el silencio cósmico. La explicación más parsimoniosa (navaja de Occam) es que hay un Gran Filtro: el socialismo choca contra la naturaleza humana, la economía del incentivo, el cálculo económico y la realidad. No es que "no se haya intentado bien". Es que el modelo es incompatible con la realidad, igual que una civilización que nunca logra salir de su planeta porque siempre se autodestruye antes. Cada nuevo intento es como otra estrella donde "esta vez la vida inteligente va a evolucionar"… y vuelve el mismo silencio. Si tu ideología de mierda lleva más de un siglo haciendo la misma promesa y solo produce miseria, éxodo, muertes y autoritarismo, quizás el problema no sea que "no se aplicó bien". Quizás el problema sea la ideología misma. ¿Dónde está todo el mundo, camarada?
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@Jringo1508 I kind of disagree. There are around 250 billion stars in the Milky Way. It seems a little arrogant to believe others from those many solar systems would be interested in us.
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@usmc_colonel I met E-tool Smith back in the day, although that story appears to be apocrypha
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Hammering, chopping, and a field-stool. Met a SgtMaj once that used it to decapitate VC.
Christopher Wipper@SGTWipper1Each
Have you ever used an E-tool for something besides digging? Let's hear it!
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@JustTheTweets17 Or lying pieces of shit, depending on if you actually know things or you are relying on self serving grifters for your information
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Very interested in watching this.
Both men are exactly what this country needs.
Fearless truth tellers.
Remarks@remarks
JUST IN: 🇺🇸 Tucker Carlson to interview Rep. Thomas Massie.
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@MattWalshBlog Are they trying to make this a thing? Just don’t touch rats. Pick them up with a pitch fork when you throw them on a fire after you have killed them. Duh.
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I don’t think this hantavirus thing is anything to worry about. The pandemic risk is extremely low. But the problem is that our “public health authorities” permanently destroyed their credibility with covid, so if there ever is an apocalyptic pandemic nobody will believe them.
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@Jringo1508 Weren’t you an infantry guy? Pretty sure you could handle it. I’m in my sixties and was in the Wing and I figure I could do seven weeks there. I’m on week two of a four week fishing trip right now. (Although it’s a bit more plush than that where I am. We have toilets and such.)
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Depends on if the river floods. The camp should be further up the hill.
And I've survived with much less for more than seven days.
OTOH: That was when I was in my 20s so probably 'No.'
The Rubber Chicken🇨🇦@Gunblaze1969
Could you survive here for 7 days?
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@BasedMikeLee Um . . . When you say “woman”, are you referring to that androgynous pink haired manatee?
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On a scale of one to ten, to what extent does this woman’s words—longing for someone to succeed in assassinating President Trump—reflect the prevailing sentiment within the Democratic Party?
Libs of TikTok@libsoftiktok
She wants a successful ass*ssination attempt against Trump so she can celebrate The Democratic Party is rotten to the core
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@mazemoore @AngelaBelcamino I’ve lived in both. Florida by a landslide. NC isn’t even close. Best: Texas.
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@usmc_colonel And? Thank God the shit I said 30 or 40 years ago isn’t on the record. Or the shit I said an hour ago, for that matter. (Hey, I’m fishing. Cut me some slack!)
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@_InfoGram_ By “brutal” do you mean ignorant and ridiculous?
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@usmc_colonel @JayJosephVet But then came the Mk-19 . . . Better than Viagra.
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@JayJosephVet Most unsatisfying thing I did in the Corps. Expected a giant fireball capable of engulfing entire guard towers. Nope. Just a puff of dirty black smoke. Huge downer.
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Live hand grenade training involves throwing grenades that can have a kill radius up to 16 feet
This training is crucial for soldiers to develop confidence and ensure they understand the proper techniques for handling these dangerous devices
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@MattWalshBlog I’ve never really figured out how this would affect my religious views in the slightest. I would be shocked if God created an unimaginably vast universe and all he put in it was us. It seems like a waste.
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I'm a lot more open to the possibility of aliens than many people here, but the idea that anything related to aliens or UFOs could have "Bible-changing" implications is totally ridiculous. There is no reason why it should shake anyone's faith to find out that God created other lifeforms on other planets out there in the vast cosmos. There are like a hundred billion galaxies. My faith does not demand that I assume they're all completely empty.
Daily Mail US@Daily_MailUS
Religious leaders told 'prepare now' for UFO disclosure to unleash Bible-changing revelations
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I used to listen to her show every day, but no more. She has become intolerable.
Anyone else feel the same way about her?
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@Not_Firestine I disagree. Grab this fuck by the scruff of his neck, drag him out of the courthouse and enforce the death warrant. Preferably by choking him too death like he did to that little girl
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I have a solution to these morons’ conundrum. They deserve to die, but killing them is wrong…
ok, then let’s bring back Marooning. That’s right. Maroon them. Take them to an iceberg or a deserted tiny island, and walk them off a plank.
evan loves worf@esjesjesj
He *deserves* to die but killing people is wrong. It’s that simple. The point of being against the death penalty is for when the person deserves it. It’s easy to be against it for when someone doesn’t deserve it.
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@megynkelly Well, he could just sell out to the lunatics like you have done. But I doubt the antisemitic, wife beating, pedophile crowd would be as excited to listen to him as they are to you.
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Inevitably, the RINOs will take the wrong lesson from tonight's brutal discipline. They will think that because they personally offended Trump, they got defeated. That’s not it. Trump is not our leader. He is our avatar. You dummies screwed with the base, and the base, not Donald Trump, made you pay.
You won’t listen to me, which is OK. You don’t want it to be true, but there’s no free pass once Donald Trump leaves the scene. The same energy and anger will still there. And you can either help us channel it in a positive direction, or have it channeled at you. But there’s no more squish tolerance in the GOP.
As Rush would say, the band not the legend, conform or be cast out.
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@KurtSchlichter Heartbreaking story. He should be taken out back of the courthouse, put up against a wall, and the verdict should be carried out.
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