U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Jamie McDonald said after court, "No grievance, political belief or ideological cause can ever justify murder."
Hilariously false, but ok, sure.
What is a soldier?
A state sanctioned, politically and ideologically motivated, often personally aggrieved, murderer.
The only difference is 'well our rule says that's ok because we said so.'
We broadly call them murderers when they kill non-combatants intentionally, but ... not when they kill other soldiers, combatants.
Agreeing to be potentially murdered does not somehow make you not murdered, if you are murdered.
I learned how to drive in the snow because I grew up in the foothills, the boonies. Snow and inclines, flash floods, windstorms take down so many trees that all the routes to ... fucking anywhere are blocked for days to a week, along with the power grid.
I, foolishly, expected that that was normal, that everybody learned how treacherous weather can be on driving.
All these damn city slickers just be fucking playing bumper cars, watchin their tiktoks, gorramit!
Oh absolutely, 9/11 didn't occur out of nothing and nowhere.
To me, the main point to drive home to Americans is we lost, we did what he wanted us to do.
We took the bait, hook, line and sinker.
We made a fundamental strategic blunder, and effectively, it seems to be our... collective character, hubris, as operationalized by our flawed social and government structures, that is what made that blunder.
Afghanistan remains the graveyard of western empires.
Its just hard to get across to many Americans the idea that we can and have totally failed, because our national myth/religion is American Exceptionalism, the overriding supremacist idea that there is some magic force that makes us better.
We are going to have to actually, truly internalize having fucked up continuously, for a long time now... that we're losers, not winners, that we are being humbled because we are not invincible, nor infallible.
Man, I saw a single post from Rimu some months ago and pegged them as a scratch a liberal and a fascist bleeds, censorious control freak totalitarian, months ago, blocked em.
Is this person like... actually important in some way, or do they just... loudly think that about themself?
Extremist Republican Jesusites cannot tolerate anything other than total loyalty to their incoherent and contradictory world view.
9/11 worked exactly as OBL intended it to, it drove the US completely insane, provoked a counter religious extremism, and caused us to destroy ourselves.
Scary is a semi truck with failed brakes barreling down a 14 degree grade with a 1000ft drop awaiting it if it can't maintain control untill it hits a designated crash zone 5 miles away.
Scary is a literal fucking volcano exploding with the force of many nuclear weapons.
Scary is whenever the Cascadia superquake hits and maybe also triggers the San Andreas fault at the same time, and turns the West Coast into an actual 90s/00s disaster movie.
I've met and known a fair number of Japanese people from spending a fairly significant amount of time doing Karate, and living in areas of the US with significant numbers of Japanese immigrants, 2nd 3rd or 4th generation.
Most of those I met were actually quite funny, making puns and jokes... in my experience, they would make a good number of jokes based around the difficulty they have learning/speaking English, and the difficulty English speakers have learning/speaking Japanese... like, very self-aware humor, self-deprecating sarcasm, sarcastic jabs, etc.
I actually learned the "Don't touchee my moustache" 'joke' from a Japanese person ... explaining to me that that had started as a common English speaker corruption of dou itashimashite... I remember feeling a strange kind of ... 3rd hand embarassment, if that makes any sense.
... maybe we just met/knew different groups of Japanese people? I don't think I met too many uh... salaryman types... ???
I mean, honestly what I think is that... well in America, I'm an introverted autistic nerd with a sense of humor that is too complicated and particular for most Americans. Compared to most Japanese I've met? I am a polite yet clever, outgoing goofball.
I think most Americans are just basically just extroverted assholes with fragile egos and projection problems, whose 'humor' is mostly based around genuinely insulting other people, but with flashy/evocative vocabulary.
A healthy work environment is welcoming to a new employee, happy and eager to see that the collective enterprise everyone is involved in is growing and changing, still persisting, like a living thing.
An unhealthy work environment fundamentally views work as toil, pain and suffering, where a new employee is a foolish outsider to their particular trauma based clique because the noobie has not yet sufficiently suffered.
So, barring something like impostor syndrome, no its not no reason, the reason is that you've entered into a toxic dysfunctional work culture.
So... it has less effective mass than it otherwise should?
Then it has less contact surface area with the ground... it has less mass pressing down on that less surface area, and thus has less traction and control.
This is an unavoidable physics problem.
Like, technically, Superman has a magic ability to alter the surface tension / tensile strength of large objects he lifts... because if he did not, he would simply puncture them, or they would collapse around where he is lifting them.
... I'm gonna need to replace the rubber footie things on mine soon.
Hilariously false, but ok, sure.
What is a soldier?
A state sanctioned, politically and ideologically motivated, often personally aggrieved, murderer.
The only difference is 'well our rule says that's ok because we said so.'
We broadly call them murderers when they kill non-combatants intentionally, but ... not when they kill other soldiers, combatants.
Agreeing to be potentially murdered does not somehow make you not murdered, if you are murdered.
No see, you don't understand.
The 'free market place of ideas' needs an 'invisible hand' to make sure it doesn't make any uh... mistakes.
And obviously, my particular and specific ideas about how to puppet that hand, well they are objectively correct.
/s
Well it is, so, take it up with God I guess, or maybe try something more productive than that.
Well TIL, thank you.
... fucking hell, goddamnit.
I learned how to drive in the snow because I grew up in the foothills, the boonies. Snow and inclines, flash floods, windstorms take down so many trees that all the routes to ... fucking anywhere are blocked for days to a week, along with the power grid.
I, foolishly, expected that that was normal, that everybody learned how treacherous weather can be on driving.
All these damn city slickers just be fucking playing bumper cars, watchin their tiktoks, gorramit!
Ptooie!
I said I met a bunch of Japanese people from Japan, and also lived in areas with Japanese Americans.
... who often host visitors who are Japanese, from Japan.
Its not small pp shit, its intentionally being a troll and watching what bites, ahahahah!
Yeah, obviously I didn't build the mountains, I don't care about this that much, ahahah!
Its just funny watching people get mad over stupid shit.
Should we do sportsball next?
Ahahhah!
Oh absolutely, 9/11 didn't occur out of nothing and nowhere.
To me, the main point to drive home to Americans is we lost, we did what he wanted us to do.
We took the bait, hook, line and sinker.
We made a fundamental strategic blunder, and effectively, it seems to be our... collective character, hubris, as operationalized by our flawed social and government structures, that is what made that blunder.
Afghanistan remains the graveyard of western empires.
Its just hard to get across to many Americans the idea that we can and have totally failed, because our national myth/religion is American Exceptionalism, the overriding supremacist idea that there is some magic force that makes us better.
We are going to have to actually, truly internalize having fucked up continuously, for a long time now... that we're losers, not winners, that we are being humbled because we are not invincible, nor infallible.
Man, I saw a single post from Rimu some months ago and pegged them as a scratch a liberal and a fascist bleeds, censorious control freak totalitarian, months ago, blocked em.
Is this person like... actually important in some way, or do they just... loudly think that about themself?
They're a piefed dev/contributor or something?
Extremist Republican Jesusites cannot tolerate anything other than total loyalty to their incoherent and contradictory world view.
9/11 worked exactly as OBL intended it to, it drove the US completely insane, provoked a counter religious extremism, and caused us to destroy ourselves.
Such as myself!
This entire profile is a fake person!
...or is it?
Aha, gotcha!
You see, by the power of AI, I have made you entirely unable to tell if I am fake, or just delusional!
Now who could put a price on that...?
Me, of course!
Whoever/Whatever I am! Pay me money now!
The royal we is a thing corpos use pretty often.
They gaslight everyone, including themselves.
Lol at all the East Coasters in this thread.
Our mountains are old, show some respect!
Our mountains are haunted, oooo scaaaarrrry!!!
Hahahahah!
Nah, nah.
Scary is a semi truck with failed brakes barreling down a 14 degree grade with a 1000ft drop awaiting it if it can't maintain control untill it hits a designated crash zone 5 miles away.
Scary is a literal fucking volcano exploding with the force of many nuclear weapons.
Scary is whenever the Cascadia superquake hits and maybe also triggers the San Andreas fault at the same time, and turns the West Coast into an actual 90s/00s disaster movie.
Seattle, just the city limits of Seattle, has hills taller than things I've heard people in the midwest call mountains.
That being said, yeah, you are absolutely correct that almost fucking nobody in the PNW knows jack shit about driving in the snow.
They also know jack shit about driving in the rain, which is... baffling for hopefully obvious reasons.
... eh?
I've met and known a fair number of Japanese people from spending a fairly significant amount of time doing Karate, and living in areas of the US with significant numbers of Japanese immigrants, 2nd 3rd or 4th generation.
Most of those I met were actually quite funny, making puns and jokes... in my experience, they would make a good number of jokes based around the difficulty they have learning/speaking English, and the difficulty English speakers have learning/speaking Japanese... like, very self-aware humor, self-deprecating sarcasm, sarcastic jabs, etc.
I actually learned the "Don't touchee my moustache" 'joke' from a Japanese person ... explaining to me that that had started as a common English speaker corruption of dou itashimashite... I remember feeling a strange kind of ... 3rd hand embarassment, if that makes any sense.
... maybe we just met/knew different groups of Japanese people? I don't think I met too many uh... salaryman types... ???
I mean, honestly what I think is that... well in America, I'm an introverted autistic nerd with a sense of humor that is too complicated and particular for most Americans. Compared to most Japanese I've met? I am a polite yet clever, outgoing goofball.
I think most Americans are just basically just extroverted assholes with fragile egos and projection problems, whose 'humor' is mostly based around genuinely insulting other people, but with flashy/evocative vocabulary.
A healthy work environment is welcoming to a new employee, happy and eager to see that the collective enterprise everyone is involved in is growing and changing, still persisting, like a living thing.
An unhealthy work environment fundamentally views work as toil, pain and suffering, where a new employee is a foolish outsider to their particular trauma based clique because the noobie has not yet sufficiently suffered.
So, barring something like impostor syndrome, no its not no reason, the reason is that you've entered into a toxic dysfunctional work culture.
So... it has less effective mass than it otherwise should?
Then it has less contact surface area with the ground... it has less mass pressing down on that less surface area, and thus has less traction and control.
This is an unavoidable physics problem.
Like, technically, Superman has a magic ability to alter the surface tension / tensile strength of large objects he lifts... because if he did not, he would simply puncture them, or they would collapse around where he is lifting them.
You're gonna need better defined magic.
Hahaha do people still use this spyware?
Ahahahahah!