amber whataboutism

This guy is about ready for a standing ovation in Canadian parliament

I want to read more of the thought from that time period, because it definitely seems to coincide with the Americans having nuclear weapons at a time when the soviets didn’t- I can see the rationale to not want to be contesting something that is so essential that it risks a wider war, but by getting bluffed into inaction they effectively surrendered in the long run.

amber whataboutism

if it wasn’t the 50s , but 1946 I would actually send weapons and support to the Greek civil war. absolutely headass maneuver. without the Tito/Stalin split things would have looked very different going into the 50s

whenever I play as the Soviet Union in hoi4 I always purge krushchev, just on principle

He should make and sell them to all sorts of rich dumbasses first. Bonus points if it also locks when it ignites

bump amber whataboutism

goat@sh.itjust.works is constantly dropping transphobic comments, I would stop being a vegan just to turn them personally into kebab

And we can get 90% of that value without a single human stepping foot on the given body

Considering the toll long-term low gravity takes on people it’s almost certain that’s going to be the case. Having human habitats there is a lot of unnecessary complexity, but maintaining healthy humans in those conditions is categorically worse.

In terms of other planets it really doesn’t make any sense outside of pure scientific exploration (frankly it’s a good thing that it doesn’t make economic sense) and for the strategy I described the moon is a better candidate anyways, for the reasons mentioned. That’s what the Chinese moon missions have been investigating at least.

Personally I always thought the prospect of colonizing Mercury in a non-earth-like way at our current technology level made more sense (if not financial sense)- it could be done in subsurface caverns, harvest energy from the surface, ice is present inside permanently shadowed craters. Water is constantly being created from solar wind blasting the surface (sputtering creates water vapor when solar wind hits oxide-laden rocks. ).

The real problem? While the average distance between Earth and Mercury is only 48million km, around a third the distance to Mars (140 million km), the orbital speed is 47.87 km/s per second compared to Earth’s 29.78km/s, and Mars 24.08km/s. The transits could potentially be relatively short, but still end up consuming as many resources in the end. Mercury is also considerably less mass- while Mars and its gravity is 1/10th earths, Mercury is half that, which could have pretty bad long-term consequences for colonists.

Termites are masterful soil engineers capable of erecting cathedral-like edifices out of dirt, saliva and feces. To create and maintain their homes, they become miners, masons, scaffolders, plasterers and roofers. Working together, they don’t just build simple nests; they install air-conditioning, central heating and even security devices. In Namaqualand, the termite activity over thousands of years has resulted in the formation of a hard layer of calcite (the same mineral that limestone is made of), which protects the colonies against predators that are strong diggers, such as aardvarks. “When we dig a soil profile that breaks any part of the mound, we see that the termite soldiers and workers switch into a sort of emergency mode and appear almost instantly,” Dr. Francis said. “The soldiers guard the tunnels and the workers do the repair work.

Unlike ants, which run out of their nests en masse and bite, termites are amazingly efficient.”

What’s frustrating was that it happened along racial lines, too, specifically favoring ethno-nationalism in the republics, and scapegoating ethnic minorities as “stateless cosmopolitans” to be removed in order to secure border regions- and allow for compliant ethnicities to take their place. it just allowed shitty people who were okay with going along with that to gain power and influence

I operate in the frequency domain

Demanding/enforcing ‘civility’ to shut down opposition in a discussion about an ongoing genocide is perverse

Putting down CIA-backed anticommunism is actually the worst form of state authoritarianism, according to the CIA guy, working for the world-historic forces of oppression and white supremacy

It’s worse than reddit because it’s full of people desperately trying to recreate the reddit site culture that resulted from the largest traffic souces being US military bases, while using a platform that’s clearly overrun with communists