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@Steam @thetiffopotamus @thanhuki Man, valve, never change. Your pro consumer stance and pro people stance are a big light in this dark and grim world.

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@Germanic_Aryan This music gives me fucking earcancer. Never associate yourself with germanics again

Die Germanen waren gewaltige Krieger von unglaublichem Mut und meisterhafter Waffenkunst – viele konnten ihren wilden Blick und das stechende Leuchten ihrer Augen nicht ertragen. – Julius Caesar

@1llegalEngineer @BotasHimself You’re twisting information and therefore incorrectly informing americans. Now we’ll have americans think the EU can happily make laws that override a country’s laws (happens with many connotations) and they are federalized (they’re not). Just say it the way it is.

@BotasHimself Most of my followers are American so I am trying to make it understandable for Americans heute.at/s/eu-plant-waf…

@1llegalEngineer What federal jail? What EU regulations? Firearm laws are done per country, this would be illegal in nearly all EU countries by default as it’s a firearm to begin with

@helldivers2 Is this a joke? No details, just big headlines, don’t question it, just play the game! Fucking pathetic

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@PalantirTech i wish anyone who applies a genuinely miserable life

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@Steve_Laws_ FDR said something similar. I wonder what the fuck happened to that? Stop believing anything politicians say.

“I will not send young British men to die in pointless forever wars”

@SxxxxxDxx @jposhaughnessy It’s not like written down science is suddenly forgotten. It’s forgotten when it’s no longer used. If all blueprints for cars disappeared today, there’s plenty of mechanics who could recreate it and tell you how a car works.

@Rodeje25 @jposhaughnessy But if that knowledge is science based, it might actually be improved upon and there would be a base to start from, but in this case everything was destroyed completely

Socrates thought writing was a bad idea: "this invention will produce forgetfulness in the souls of those who have learned it, because they will not use their memory; they will trust to the external written characters and not remember of themselves." ~Plato, "Phaedrus"

@sheewaass @realstewpeters Cocaine doesn’t make you hallucinate nonsense. Dumbass

@realstewpeters Is cocaine alone enough to come up with this level of nonsense, or do you mix it with something else for stronger results?

Netanyahu is dead, the US/Israel war machine is getting handled, they killed Charlie Kirk, the Epstein files won’t go away, and billions in oil are on fire. Iran won’t back down. They’re lying about everything, the cabal is all-in, and they’re going for all of it.

@SxxxxxDxx @jposhaughnessy Then the knowledge would have transformed. Look at stories, songs, how sentences change when they’re directly whispered from person to person. Writing preserves the original much better

@Rodeje25 @jposhaughnessy Imagine everything was memorized wouldn't that knowledge have survived till this day?

@wylfcen You said 🧃 were the superior race. We do not claim this guy and pass him on to the blacks.

They’re SO jealous lmao

@3kliksphilip they made csgo available again

It appears that Iran has strategically targeted every connecting airport between me and England so this should give valve some more time to cook up some decent updates

@Jibriel4548776 @GravyHound12 @ripplebrain @alexandrosM october 7th relatively succesfully got branded as the "start" of a "new" war. it's stupid but it is what it is.

@Rodeje25 @GravyHound12 @ripplebrain @alexandrosM I don't get why it's so hard for people to understand this point. Now I understand why IQ levels have been on the decline worldwide.

I'm going to explain this in detail for people aren't familiar with it. It's going to sound somewhat unbelievable because it's some of the most stone cold Sun Tsu Machiavelli shit of all time, but Sinwar openly described it in these terms. First, put yourself in his shoes. Gaza is an open air concentration camp, and there's no indication this will ever change. The Israelis are gobbling up increasing amounts of Palestine outside of Gaza. They're also normalizing relations with the Sunni Arab states to an unprecedented degree. The Abraham Accords were signed in 2020, and Israeli relations with the entire Sunni world are on an upward trajectory. The only faction within the region that could possibly come to your rescue is the Shia. The Iranians have huge military potential, but their strategy is to keep themselves at a distance while slowly attriting the Israeli axis with proxy forces, and this is having mixed results. The Iranians are under severe economic pressure and have no interest in a wider war. It looks unlikely that they'll be able to change the picture for the Palestinians if this continues. So what do you do? First, you need to understand the mindset of all the factions involved: Israel, the US, Hezbollah, Iran, the Gulf monarchies, Egypt, Ansar Allah, and so on. The Israelis are almost as dissatisfied with the present situation as you are. While they're achieving diplomatic success, their goal is to fully ethnically cleanse Gaza and the rest of Palestine, and start gobbling up territory in Lebanon and Syria to drive towards a future Greater Israel. Even if their position is gradually improving with the Sunni states, ultimately they're nowhere close to their long term goals, and have serious regional enemies in the form of Hezbollah and Iran. And they have the largest military in the world at their disposal if they need it. Sinwar's strategic decision was to force a "great battle," a "flood for Al-Aqsa." His calculus was that if Hamas initiated a massive, open attack on Israel, the Israelis would use it as a casus belli to implement their strategic goals with regard to Palestine. With relations still not fully normalized with the Arab states, this would heighten the contradictions within the Middle East and lead to a massive regional war. As the Israelis would be forced to go for broke, they'd attempt to also resolve their goals in Lebanon, which would of course suck in Hezbollah, and in turn suck in Iran. Perhaps the most crucial second-order effect without which this plan could have failed is the reaction of Ansar Allah. Their actions in the Red Sea and decision to regularly lob missiles and drones at Israeli territory kept the situation from cooling off. If they hadn't been willing to take on the US Navy solo, the plan might have failed. It's taken until this latest outbreak of hostilities between Israel and Iran to get the Iranians to fully break with their strategy of caution and de-escalation. Sinwar understood the US/Israeli relationship. The Israeli ability to wield the US military like a tool ensured that a direct American attack on Iran was inevitable, forcing the Iranians to adjust their posture. This plan required a willingness to make enormous sacrifices. Gaza has been destroyed, Hezbollah is severely degraded, and the Iranians are now under existential threat. But much of the public worldwide is rapidly coming to grips with the true nature of the US/Israeli relationship. Support for Israel around the world is at a 70 year low. Tel Aviv has been hammered with hundreds of ballistic missiles in four separate True Promise operations, and there are active blockades in both the Red Sea and Persian Gulf. The US has openly abandoned its Gulf allies, paving the way for a total collapse of the geopolitical picture as it stood in October of 2023. The Israeli position is more tenuous than it's been in decades. The most mind boggling thing is that Sinwar set all of this in motion and then took up a rifle and went out to meet the IDF head on. Once Al-Aqsa flood began, the situation, which would pull in dozens of countries, was beyond his control.

@AMK_Mapping_ Eh, i don’t buy it being a 2kg warhead. youtube.com/shorts/xrqPYMi…

The explosion size is very small, which means a very small missile was used - likely a Mikholit launched from a Hermes-450/900 drone. Mi-17s are large, strong helicopters. What you're seeing is likely the 2 kg warhead detonating against the front of the chopper. Also, there is a shadow seen under the front of the helicopter and under the rotors. Considering the low video quality, it is *possible* that this was one painted on the tarmac, but to me it seems more consistent with a small warhead. Hopefully we will get some satellite imagery to confirm this.

The IDF published footage showing a recent airstrike on an Iranian Mi-17 helicopter.

@GravyHound12 @ripplebrain @alexandrosM What is this nonsense? Palestinians are actively genocided but they should just make peace? Recognize they’re beaten and have been for decades so just sit down and die? Israel started by insurrection, got the two state solution, and then israel immediately started taking more.

Nice analysis overall, but it completely ignores two factors. 1- If Israel is willing to normalize relations with all Arab nations in the Gulf, then why would it not normalize relations with the Palestinians in order to complete the circle? Surely the other Arab states would make that a precondition of their normalization, unless Hamas is so diplomatically inept that they isolated themselves even from their own co-ethnics in the Gulf? 2- The assumption that Israel is at once trying to Lebensraum into neighbouring Arab states to create Greater Israel and able to normalize relations with those states is contradictory. Too much of this simply boils down to the fact that the Palestinians (in Gaza) are too stubborn for their own good to make peace and believe that only a millenarian showdown with Israel will achieve a “from the river to the sea” result. They simply want nothing else, and cannot admit that they are beaten, and have been for decades.

@RWApodcast @ripplebrain I think everyone involved absolutely knew it was a gamble and they were under no illusion that all plans can fail.

@ripplebrain Honestly, I'd push back a little on this... If you read a gambler's behavior backward from outcomes, it'll always make the gambler look more calculated than they were.

@CountDankulaTV They’re shooting at countries harboring bases of their enemy? If they randomly shot at india then yeah, ok, random. But it isn’t is it?

Iran just firing rockets at random other countries and places is like the geopolitical equivalent of punching holes in the wall as you are getting kicked out of the house party.

@realCaptainMike @CompletedStreet They’re not. Put pedestrian crossings near them and cars will stop. If they don’t, traffic cameras and smack em with a fine.

@CompletedStreet Roundabouts are nightmares for pedestrians

Roundabouts are the closest thing to a cure-all. -Better traffic flow -Lower injury and fatality rates -Lower maintenance costs -More aesthetic than traditional intersections We need more of them.

@dilanesper Uniquely retarded take. In europe they work fine, and enormously improve traffic flow.

traffic circles suck and one of the reasons i don't trust a lot of policy wonks in this area is because they advocate this drivers do not understand them which means tons of accidents and near misses. Go back to signals and stop signs.