Take people with low empathy and train them up in psychological manipulation and covert operations. Color me shocked that this happened.

OP, please reword the title to be a question. Thanks.

Rule 5. Locking.

Rule 5. Locking.

In the interest of moderation transparency, we've had a couple of reports about this post.

Here's my thinking about it:

Community purpose

• This post is more political that would ordinarily be seen on AskLemmy, ⬇️
• it is an open-ended thought provoking question, ⬆️
• it is generating healthy and informative discussion and debate. ⬆️

Rule 1:

• the post is not trolling, sealioning, racist or toxic, ⬆️
• the topic is contentious but seems to be worded politely, ⬆️
• the author has voluntarily amended the question to be more sensitive in their framing. ⬆️

Rule 3:

• it does not fit the definition of spam or astroturfing ⬆️

On balance, I'm going to let the post remain up.

Color me shocked.

It’s a Portmanteaux of Lemmy and humans.

Rule 5. Support/Lemmy meta question. Locking.

Support question. Please post in !support. Locking.

It's 4 days late, but I'll wade in.

It's possible to express an opinion without being an asshole about it. That's what Rule 1 is about. Not censorship.

I don't like (factual) Y about country X. <- Doesn't breach Rule 1.

The people in country X are all shit stains <- Breaches Rule 1.

Diplomatic honesty is fine (at least with me).
What isn't fine are:

• Personal attacks,
• Doxxing, trolling, sealioning,
• attacks on whole groups of people because of:
  • stereotypical characteristics.
  • ingroup-outgroup bias,
  • readily disprovable dis/misinformation.

In summary, respectful debate is welcome. Nastiness is not.

Remember Rule 1 people.

Woah, woah, woah. Let's not get too carried way here. Some things we just shouldn't talk about.

Beards, not mullets!

We'll I'll agree that it's better than c:/user/home/technicallythetruth/

Let's start with the second part of your question? How do you make someone understand that invading another country is not a good thing?

The Washington Post estimated that during his presidency, Trump made more than 30,000 false or misleading statements.

Lies like he breathes.

Pretty much. The sides and the back are separately inflatable, so you can tune it for maximum comfort.

https://airmeditator.com/

Recently got one of those inflatable cushions and it's amazing!

Sounds like another reason not to use Chrome.

I'm hoping you just forgot an /s. But just in case, there's nothing 'ordinary' about it. Unless you are talking about the 'new ordinary'.

https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/monitoring/climate-at-a-glance/global/time-series/globe/land_ocean/ytd/0/1850-2024

I actually like it. Thanks.

Groan.

When a wannabe dictator says you won't have to vote any more...

OP, if you feel the need, please call for help if you need it.

https://988lifeline.org/

I wrote Pink Floyd off after Roger Waters supported Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine.

By the sounds of it, they had a lot of miles under their belt.

You have to wonder how they ended up dead? What happened to the EPIRB? Did they not have a PLB? GPS and Portable Radio?

I don't know for sure, but I suspect there aren't many pirates in the middle of the Atlantic.

I gather that many larger ships often either have malfunctioning AIS or don't have it turned on.

AIS is a system that pings identity and location to other ships, and can set off alarms to warn of impending collisions at sea.

Isn't this just more of what caused the problem in the first place? Namely, centralisation. If you store data locally and you lose a machine, that's bad but not the end of the world. If you store it centrally and you lose the data, that's catastrophic. Nassim Taleb nailed this stuff. Keep the downside limited, and the upside unlimited or as he says, "Don't pick up pennies in front of a steamroller."

This man lies like he breathes.

Petty much the view that Russia's neighbours see when looking across the border. And the Russians wonder why nobody wants be friends...

Are you sure you are on the right server? I think Lemmy.ml is probably more your bubble.

The Eastern Bloc suffered an enormous drop in living quality following the dissolution of the USSR. Far from reaping a bounty via free market liberty, the people in these countries found themselves the subject of a historic privatization and looting of national treasuries and resources.

This is a black and white perspective. You have to keep in mind that citizens of these countries were significantly worse off as (involuntarily) being part of the USSR than the countries that were not in the Eastern Bloc, and most of them are now significantly better off as part of the EU. Most citizens remember the repression, shortages, and russification all too well.

Black people aren’t Black people. They’re people.

This! I couldn't believe it when I had to answer a question about race on the entry card into the US.

I get asking about skin color. It's like hair color, or eye color, but race? So many assumptions and biases just in that one word (race).

He knows how to delegate to people who are smarter than him. He also knows the importance of 'tone at the top' in getting the best out of his team. This is what makes him the better candidate.

Sorry, I don't.

I saw some documentary that suggested that they used to chip straight through fossilized feathers and skin to get to the bones because they didn't realise what they were.

Firefighter here. Brush and gently vacuum your smoke detector. Insects are attracted to the LED and can set off the alarm. They may be very small. Dust can also set it off.