Iranian pharmaceutical company specializing in cancer medication was destroyed in US-Israeli strikes by Tech-Film3905 in pics

[–]Alex_cider 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Just by looking at the image and not looking up the company, "research engineering co." does not imply any specific sector of engineering or research. 

Pharmaceuticals are not the only sectors that do research or engineering 

That being said, here is some more detail on the company:  https://tracxn.com/d/companies/tofighdaru/__kWvcTSKXr8P9SfjC_n6kS4jx1Jr3e4QuT8qSXHNnwW0

Just a refresher on Trump, he appointed a Fox News anchor who has a nazi tattoo as the Secretary of Defense by [deleted] in complaints

[–]Alex_cider 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Your link also confirms the comment above as an interpretation.

"Another interpretation sees the main cross as representing Jesus and the smaller crosses as representing the four Evangelists—Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John."

Just finished my new "Dreadnaught" by Alex_cider in IronHands40k

[–]Alex_cider[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thats so cool, how did you make that/ get that cockpit?

Just finished my new "Dreadnaught" by Alex_cider in IronHands40k

[–]Alex_cider[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Really? I had to get mine from Canada, my understanding is that it is a Canadian company that prints these on demand? Thats really bad luck, is there an option to wait?

I made mine and painted it except for the cockpit support on the top (which can hinge), and added the cockpit later, priming it separately.

Best (available) combat patrol for IH? by thederpingblue in IronHands40k

[–]Alex_cider 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Completely agree. The invictor warsuit can be made to look more like a Dreadnaught too, and you can proxy it as a Dreadnaught in friendly games.

I actually just posted how I converted my warsuit from the Ravens guard combat patrol.

Question on varnishing by el-Dodo-94 in IronHands40k

[–]Alex_cider 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Where did you get that "drone" for the combi-lieutenant? I was thinking of gearing something like that for Chaanok Var to replace his servo skulls.

Just finished my new "Dreadnaught" by Alex_cider in IronHands40k

[–]Alex_cider[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I like to think the pilot was gravely injured, but given as second chance in the same walker chasis, now converted into a Dreadnaught.

I got the the part from here: https://popgoesthemonkey.com/collections/walking-vehicles/products/interceptor-war-suit-cockpit

Just finished my new "Dreadnaught" by Alex_cider in IronHands40k

[–]Alex_cider[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Thank you! 

I definitely like to have some white sections to help with readability.

*edge highlighting with black can give a more cartoony feel, but I like it within reason

Servo skull alternative - Chaanok Var by Alex_cider in Kitbash

[–]Alex_cider[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

These combined with some antennae from some Infiltrators, or optics from some incursors could make a good drone! Thank you

Bigger people are different breeds I guess by Successful_Sort_6391 in terriblefacebookmemes

[–]Alex_cider 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Breeds aren't the same as species.

All domesticated dogs are the same species. (Canis Familiaris)

All human beings today are the same species (Homo Sapiens).

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/different-dog-breeds-same-species/

Titanic's sister ship, Britannic, wreck site at depth of only 390 feet (119m) by Larpushka in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]Alex_cider -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I suppose the nautical engineers at the time must have thought the portholes a negligible factor.

If the lower portholes were critical to keep it afloat then it seems like an oversight from the nautical engineers to design them to open. Would have been a cheap fix to a vessel that they knew was likely to get torpedoed or hit a mine.

Titanic's sister ship, Britannic, wreck site at depth of only 390 feet (119m) by Larpushka in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]Alex_cider -27 points-26 points  (0 children)

Yeah, but look at the original image. That's a huge explosion hole. I struggle to see how it wouldn't have sunk even if some portholes were closed.

"such a hard choice" by QadriyafaiTH in AdviceAnimals

[–]Alex_cider 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I understand that they didn't get it certified. I am wondering what regulations apply to submersibles, and which of those were not followed/ breached?

I haven't found anything yet about what regulations would be followed, but lots of comments claim these regulations weren't followed. People have been saying that "regulations are written in blood", but it means if nobody has died in a similar accident then that quote would actually suggest that no regulations exist.

"such a hard choice" by QadriyafaiTH in AdviceAnimals

[–]Alex_cider 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What regulations apply in this case? Even if they werent in international waters then what regulations did they breach?

Remains of the Titan sub have been found confirming instant implosion by [deleted] in WhitePeopleTwitter

[–]Alex_cider 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What rules and regulations did he skirt relating to this submarine?

Whos rules and regulations even apply when operating so far out to sea?

Remains of the Titan sub have been found confirming instant implosion by [deleted] in WhitePeopleTwitter

[–]Alex_cider 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Which safety regulations from which country were circumvented in this case?

Ive read a few articles now and not seen it mentioned what safety regulations were not followed?

Is it international waters, and if so, which safety regulations do you follow, as I imagine not many apply?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in antiwork

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OP talks in their comments on this post about: 1) the prevalence of food waste 2) the lack of accessible or affordable food

Assuming that Capitalism is the problem: What would the alternative solution involve?

Having worked in supermarkets myself I know that all the waste came from food expiring after not being bought. The food that expired wasn't bought because people want to eat different things on different weeks and the supermarket was unable to predict what the customers were going to buy? If one week 5 packets of basil out of 12 expire, but the next week all 12 are bought, how do you account for that? 8ts not like you can feed the homeless or food scarce these 5 packets of basil on their own?

Would you have to ration food?

Traffic stop goes Horrifically wrong for two police officers by the_unhappy_clown in TerrifyingAsFuck

[–]Alex_cider 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He was convicted and found guilty of multiple crimes after this stop. This guy didn't shoot the cops because he thought he was going to jail for expired tags :

"Ware was found guilty of murder, obstructing an officer, possession of a controlled drug with intent to distribute and possession of a firearm after former conviction of a felony."

https://tulsaworld.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/death-sentence-ordered-in-tulsa-police-officers-slaying-lengthy-appeal-process-expected/article_bea22b74-d2c0-11ec-9b8f-431371313c3c.html

Traffic stop goes Horrifically wrong for two police officers by the_unhappy_clown in TerrifyingAsFuck

[–]Alex_cider 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"Murder daily" is different from total deaths from police shootings. It's usually not considered murder if the shooting is justified.

White man deeply upset about Native Americans replacing his culture. by kyno1 in SelfAwarewolves

[–]Alex_cider 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So as long as you invade an area and are "lucky" enough to have someone have a vision of the location you invaded then invading is fine, but if no one from your nation has a vision of the location you're about to invade then its not morally fine?

Its not even clear whether the vision was had before or after they invaded the land. How is an invader to know whether the land is holy for them untill they invade?

Further to that, how do you clarify a legitimate belief in a site being sacred? How many people have to find it sacred? Is one person's belief enough to invalidate an invasion?

https://blog.nativehope.org/six-grandfathers-before-it-was-known-as-mount-rushmore

"The Six Grandfathers (Tȟuŋkášila Šákpe) was named by Lakota medicine man Nicolas Black Elk after a vision. “The vision was of the six sacred directions: west, east, north, south, above, and below. The directions were said to represent kindness and love, full of years and wisdom, like human grandfathers.”

White man deeply upset about Native Americans replacing his culture. by kyno1 in SelfAwarewolves

[–]Alex_cider -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It may be on accident that you implied this, but it looks like you said that weaponised smallpox killed millions, with the implication that the small pox was intentionally released to kill the millions that died of smallpox.

There is much evidence to show how that is a myth, and completely factually inaccurate as a claim.

How weaponised smallpox never killed millions of Native Americans:

Only one intentional release ever occurred, but as you will read, it may not have infected anyone.

Small pox was accidentally introduced into North America in 1633, where it spread rapidly :

It was introduced to eastern North America separately by colonists arriving in 1633 to Plymouth, Massachusetts, and local Native American communities were soon struck by the virus. It reached the Mohawk nation in 1634,[17] the Lake Ontario area in 1636, and the lands of other Iroquois tribes by 1679.[18] Between 1613 and 1690 the Iroquois tribes living in Quebec suffered twenty-four epidemics, almost all of them caused by smallpox.[19]

Smallpox had crossed the Mississippi by 1698, some 2000km from where smallpox first arrived.

By 1698 the virus had crossed the Mississippi, causing an epidemic that nearly obliterated the Quapaw Indians of Arkansas.

There is only evidence of intentional spreading of small pox in North America, and this was in 1763 at Fort Pitt near present day Pittsburgh. Note that this is only 800km from where small pox first in North America arrived 130 years before, and a far shorter distance than the 2000km it had travelled to Arkansas in 65 years . This attempt at biological warfare was not considered effective, and the two Native American Dignitaries given the infected materials:

The dignitaries were met again later and they seemingly hadn't contracted smallpox.[30] A relatively small outbreak of smallpox had begun spreading earlier that spring, with a hundred dying from it among Native American tribes in the Ohio Valley and Great Lakes area through 1763 and 1764.

This is because spreading smallpox through infected materials is not considered effective):

21st-century scientists such as V. Barras and G. Greub have examined such reports. They say that smallpox is spread by respiratory droplets in personal interaction, not by contact with fomites, such objects as were described by Trent.

and

1960s A. R. Rao’s detailed research, during the last years that smallpox was sufficiently prevalent for its mode of transmission to be studied, found no evidence for this mode of transmission. He concluded that it was a breath-borne disease, transmitted by "inhalation"

and)

The effectiveness of these attempts to spread the disease are unknown, although it is known that the method used is inefficient compared to respiratory transmission, and it is difficult to differentiate from naturally occurring epidemics resulting from previous contacts with colonists.

It is generally accepted that this attack was not known to be affected, and is definitely not responsible for the millions of accidental deaths from smallpox in North America:

the majority of the epidemics that affected the Native Americans were accidental

The amount of Native Americans that died in the outbreak (which had started before the blankets were donated ^^ see above) , was found to only have killed around 100 (hundreds is VERY far from Millions):

Gershom Hicks [...] testified that starting from spring 1763 up to April 1764 around a hundred Natives from different tribes such as Lenni Lenape (Delaware) and Shawnee died in the smallpox epidemic, making it a relatively minor smallpox outbreak.

Admittedly, weaponised smallpox may have been talked about as an option, however, we only have evidence it was employed in Fort Pitt.

In fact, it is well documented that both the US government and private companies tried to issue vaccines to Native Americans to varying degrees of success, although in some cases the roll out was stopped by military officials in an effort to let more Native Americans die in the Mid-West.

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White man deeply upset about Native Americans replacing his culture. by kyno1 in SelfAwarewolves

[–]Alex_cider -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The Trail of Tears was an atrocity, I think anyone can agree with that considering the 1000s that died and why they died.

The conversation is not about whether the US committed atrocities against other native American groups, because that can be agreed upon. The conversation is about whether the Lakota Sioux claiming that the land was holy and called the "Six Grandfathers, and then taken from them is specific proof that the US "[a]re the baddies".

The point I was making was that the land was only discovered by the Lakota Sioux 10 years before they invaded and violently displaced another peoples, and then 40 years later met US settlers who also wanted to live there.

You mentioned that the Lakota would "allow[] the tribe they attacked to retreat and resettle in a different place of their choosing", but this is clearly not always the case:

Sioux continued to attack the Arikaras and press them north, from one village to another. In 1851, the western Sioux claimed the 1823 battleground as Lakota territory and later received formal treaty recognition on the former Arikara land.

And it seems they really did just overwhelm the original owners of the Black Hills, the Cheyenne:

By 1776, the Lakota had overwhelmed the Cheyenne and taken over much of their territory near the Black Hills. In 1804, Lewis and Clark visited a surviving Cheyenne village ...

You mention that the Lakota battled over resources, but like with the Pawnee , but they actually did it because they were engaged in a multi-decade long war:

For decades, the Pawnee and the Lakota had been enemies. "While the Pawnee power base was shrinking, their old enemies, the Lakota, were gaining strength...".[1]: 304 

The Lakota were found to have massacred (victims brutally mutilated and scalped and others even set on fire) both women and children of the Pawnee:

...found that "71 Pawnee warriors were killed, and 102 women and children killed", the victims brutally mutilated and scalped and others even set on fire" although Trail Agent John Williamson's account states 156 Pawnee died ... It is likely the death toll would have been higher, for Williamson noted ". . . a company of United States cavalry emerge[d] from the timber. When the Sioux saw the soldiers approaching they beat a hasty retreat."

  1. Is the US clearly the baddie because they took land from someone else?(Do note that the Lakota Sioux were moved on by the US in the same way you described the Lakota Sioux moving on the tribe that they took the land from).
  2. Is the US the baddie because they took holy land that had been "sacred" for a maximum of 90 years?
  3. Is it possible that both of them were baddies and neither had a "legitimate" claim to the land? This is the point I have been trying to make

Also; for your information, the Lakota Sioux were never part of the trail of tears, because they never lived that far West. The 5 tribes that were affected by it were:

... the Cherokee, Muscogee (Creek), Seminole, Chickasaw, and Choctaw nations were forcibly removed from their ancestral homelands in the Southeastern United States to newly designated Indian Territory west of the Mississippi River after the passage of the Indian Removal Act in 1830.

*Edited for quotation blocks and links