CarbonIceDragon

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Has this kind of thing literally once in history ever ended well?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Zeppelin can launch and recover planes, therefore its true role in the fight is "aircraft carrier"

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

everyone knows when you cut the sandwich in half, you get two sandwiches instead of one. You cut diagonally because the triangle sandwiches are bigger than the rectangle ones you get from cutting down the middle. /s

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (2 children)

IIRC the space force basically just is taking what was air force space command and spinning it off into its own branch. So they'd not be doing much that wasn't being done before so much as making that operation independent of the air force, same as how the air force used to be part of the army.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

Protests can be an implied threat. Consider that when a state is resisted violently, a certain number of people is generally required for that effort to have a shot at success. When protests gain large enough numbers, there's an implication of "we have all these people angry about this thing. Imagine what might happen if they were to stop being peaceful".

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

this is making the key assumption that the number of people that exist in the future is the same as the number of people that lived up until now, which seems unlikely. A bigger issue Id think is that if the universe ends (or really just the world, the universe is overkill), then all those time travelers from the future never can exist to do this in the first place, making this a classic time paradox.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 weeks ago

Time for them to quit? It may be harder to make something that is clearly satire, but times like these are exactly the times when mocking authority is most valuable.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Whatever his charisma might be, if he runs in 2028, that's good at least in that it would require his father not have managed to remove elections and term limits by then for it to occur

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Consume the upper class? Vore the bourgeois?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Every so often that kind of thing goes badly for them. Just ask the French

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

Honestly I think tariffs could be a good thing if used in certain ways, but certainly not in the manner that the orange idiot has been applying them. They act to make targeted products more expensive, so if one was to specifically tariff goods made under labor conditions that would be illegally substandard in this country, such as under safety conditions that wouldn't meet our regulations or with purchasing power adjusted wages that would be below our minimum, and set the tariff amount so as to make those goods just a bit more expensive than if they had been made under conditions that at least met our standards, you could reduce the economic incentive for companies to outsource to places where they can exploit their workforce more, and reduce the incentive for those places to avoid improving their labor laws. Trump would never use them for something like that though.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

By trying to find the smartest guy around to get expert advice from no less.

 

Not entirely sure if this is the right place to ask this, but I figured it was the closest fit.

I've been thinking about creating one or possibly a few communities, mostly due to missing some that were on Reddit. Before creating any, I wanted to be sure of a few things:

  1. Do communities have to be created on the instance one logs in to (ie, does the fact my lemmy account is from pawb mean that communities I make have to be made here?) I kinda assume it would since going to another instance's page loads their site, which I obviously am not logged into, but given my second question I feel like I should ask if there's a way to make one elsewhere.
  2. Given pawb is a furry instance, do communities made here have to be furry related, or could one make, say, a community for some specific game for example that isn't explicitly a furry game?
  3. Would creating a fetish-related community for one that is popular with some furries be allowable, or should I go to a different instance for such things? I noticed one or two on pawb already but I was unsure if they got any special permission to be created or not.
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