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@Mericamemed Except no engineer in europe makes 300k. As a matter of fact... :

Every German engineer

@onehandpolitics Trump mogs every stand-up comedian so hard. Too bad its illegal for a politician to be funny

This country isn’t real man 😭

@saberjet @pplsartofwar It was not the first, it was not the best, but Shahed is such fitting name for a drone. Another case of genericized trademark

@pplsartofwar You’re missing the original one and the first copy.

This is the Maxim machine gun of our era. Endlessly copied, refined, and alters the tempo of combat itself.

People who sell things online: I AM NEVER GOING TO CALL FOR PRICING. Never. I’m going to close your website and move on to the next one that lists prices.

Intrasexually competitive women advise other women to cut off more hair [D.Sulikowski et al.] doi.org/10.1016/j.paid… Intrasexual Mate Competition (Women): Mate Attraction Tactics [L. Wagstaff; D.Sulikowski] doi.org/10.1016/j.paid… And a bunch of other paywalled articles, but you can listen to her numerous podcasts on yt. it really flows from first principles. If evolution is genetical competition, why would you NOT do this?

@Lomanonis @Porkchop_EXP @DrDaniS lmao please tell me you have some kind of source on this

A lot of problems are downstream from the de-sexualization of the workplace. This trend is also inherently non-European - in Europe we have always seen adults as *adults* who are able to make decisions and understand the consequences of their actions and act accordingly. The infantilization of adults as lacking agency, through the lens of “abuse of power” etc. is something imported from the US and their love for exploiting lawsuits. Once you enter the workforce as a young person your colleagues are your main sexual pool. Eliminating this as an option is having tragic consequences for society nobody is talking about.

@JacobAShell @seatsixtyone fine, i rest my case then

@Lomanonis No it's all true man. Once @seatsixtyone saw my OP he did a better job explaining what happened (because unlike me he actually understood the bizarre bureaucratic issues btwn Germany and Italy when it comes to ticketing), but everything I said is accuate.

The European passenger rail system is very cool, but I remember having this horrible experience in '22 where I bought an Italian rail ticket to go from Munich to Rome, and purchased it online. Was told after I completed the purchase that "it was only valid if printed, and it could only be printed at an Italian printer" (I was in Germany). The Italians wouldn't let me return the ticket. Germans I knew rolled their eyes and said I should have just gone to a German train station and bought the ticket there, in person, and that buying anything online, esp from Trenitalia, is bad. 100 euros down the drain. The point of the story is that yes the EU rail system looks cool on a map. And if you go Point A to B inside of one country (e.g. Munich to Hamburg), things usually go very well. But when doing multiple countries, you can wind up back in a situation from early 20th century where you're dealing with various border-bureaucrat "Kafka traps." You'd think the whole point of the EU would be to streamline this, but no, apparently the only point of it is to deprive nations of sovereign control over labor flows.

@JacobAShell Did you just take italians literaly? IN ENGLISH? Absurd if true, but there must be something lost in translation here. I traveled with home printed tickets over a decade ago. Possibly outdated knowledge, but i refuse to believe they lost the technology for single use barcodes.

@Lomanonis This is the message I got...when getting a Trenitalia ticket to go from Munich (not in Italy!) to Italy

@romanhelmetguy His bad takes are too many to count. He might sound smart, but only on topics you have absolutely no prior knowledge about. What a fraud

I still can’t get over this. Please realize that if the West falls, they are not only going to take the future away from your kids, they are going to take away the past. They’ll rewrite everything. They’ll erase your ancestors with the stroke of a pen. The ones they don’t erase, they’ll make the bad guys in every story. The idea that Polybius made up the Second Punic War to justify the Third Punic War is obviously insane. But let me explain to you just how insane it really is. The Third Punic War began only 52 years after the Second Punic War ended. 149 BC vs 201 BC. There were many many Romans who lived through both wars. Cato the Elder, the main architect of the Third Punic War, the guy that ended every speech with “Carthage must be destroyed”, literally fought for 15 whole years in the Second Punic War. Jiang wants you to believe that Polybius completely fabricated a two decade long devastating war, that happened all over Italy itself, within living memory, for which almost every Roman male was recruited and 33% of fighting age Roman men died. He wants you to believe that some 65 year old Roman guy would go “Huh, I didn’t realize my city was captured by this Hannibal Barca character and the population of Italy laid waste when I was 15. I must’ve missed it.” Obviously there is a ton of archaeological and literary evidence for the Second Punic War and the existence of Hannibal Barca that is independent of Polybius. That should go without saying. But I want you to really stop and think about the kind of person who comes up with this theory, makes a video about it, and posts that video on YouTube. This is not a guy with a few facts wrong. This is not an innocent misunderstanding of history. If Western civilization falls, these are the people who are going to be teaching your kids.

@houseofala Best part: the photoshoots don't even happen on the same day as the event anymore. Because, imagine the logistics to carry this sham out. How many takes it took to make that dog stare into the sea?

I am unfortunately developing a disgust reflex towards weddings & marriage. The diamonds, the humiliation ritual engagement photo sessions, the posed intimacy, the exotic destinations. All for show. To post and to outdo. Love is a costume. The union is not sacred, it’s not the entire purpose; it’s just the consequence of a big aesthetic party

NX and Solidworks are fully american products that just happen to be aquired by europeans. In Soliworks' case its a major problem, because the french are making them do absolute nonsense. (the whole 3dExperience disaster). Since the original founders left in 2011, it completely stopped improving. Catia... i mean... just look at it. No wonder Daimler invested hundreds of millions to ditch it. Europeans just cant code. unfortunately

Bitch there’s not a single factory in the world without at least some Siemens parts running the show… NX, Catia and Solid Works are all European. By god, the best “machines” for CNC machining are imported from the Germans or Swiss. Like what the actual fuck are you talking bout?

@emm0sh yeah, and obviously unnecessary stainless steel indoors. But know what? its a public project and engineering problems are never the focus actually. Theres probably 10x more wasted on administrative negligence or kick-backs, so at least it looks expensive x.com/Asso_usagersid…

i don’t know where to start: were these brackets CNC’d or welded? why not sheet? what factor of safety was used? are those bushings? i feel physical pain

Each customer gets assigned a freaking BABBLE FACTOR. Zero tolerance for haggling and yapping at this store. Yesss, i accept your conditions

As most e-commerce business, they employ special price programme. But how do you get EFFICIENCY CLUB PRICE? Do i have to sign up for a newsletter? - HELL NO. /cont

I have stumbled upon this German industrial hardware store. Prices looked almost too good to be true... until... I have read their manifesto. Wow. This is the polar opposite of "CONTACT SALES" guys. They do really, really, hate e-mail jobs.

@Reader77gg @JacklouisP There's Greta Thunberg in charge of european industry. Its irrelevant who is better at engineering. No one is winning here

@Lomanonis @JacklouisP Basic economics, let the ones who are good at engineering do the engineering so the consumer wins

Thread: How China bought Germany's robotics crown jewel Quick story: I recently called Kuka German in a thread and got called out - "Kuka is Chinese now." This sent me down a rabbit hole. What I found was straight out of Succession, and it reshaped how the West thinks about tech sovereignty. This is the story of how a Chinese appliance company bought Kuka & kick-started China's robot dominance. ⬇️

By "lost lives" you mean victims. And victims do not win wars. I must mention significant armed anti-soviet resistance right after ww2, but it was just a memory by the time USSR actually died. What ended USSR then? Were soviet officials tired of the killing? Maybe. But they were also aware that a Tomahawk missile might hit a window of his office if they did anything stupid. >OIL PRICES You mean the second largest and resource rich country in the world (claiming to be #1 itself) had ONE economically viable source of income? Was it related to the fact that their entire econ theory was beyond retarded maybe? People were literally close to starving in late 80ties, and the WESTERN DREAM of rivers of milk and honey was alive in peoples heads. THIS DREAM, (a Psyop if you want) was the nuke that wiped USSR from the map.

@Lomanonis So Baltic States lost only 13 lives since the beginning of wwii? That’s the dumbest take. And btw, USSR largely collapsed due to sustained low oil prices through the 80s which just crushed their economy, and not because of Western dreams

The Baltic States were abandoned to Kremlin occupation after WWII and brutally suppressed for 60 years before finally regaining independence by sacrificing blood, with no help from the West. @SecGenNATO's casual talk of "de facto occupation" is therefore ignorant and terrifying.

@mcames1635 @GLandsbergis @SecGenNATO Existence of thriwing western Germany next to hellish DDR have served as direct comparison, and proved the absurdity of the communist regime, which in turn, slowly demoralised even the most ardent supporters of the Evil Empire. Appreciate your service sir

@Lomanonis @GLandsbergis @SecGenNATO Thank you. I was beginning to wonder what I was doing when the US Army sent me to [West] Germany between 1980 and 1984.