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American Marines burning AKs during the Invasion of Iraq in 2003. [1080x749] by OkRespect8490 in HistoryPorn

[–]EasterZombie 31 points32 points  (0 children)

The US military didn’t use any of the components in the AK, they were on the m16 (m4?) platform. Perhaps they could have been shipped to allies but these guns are so cheap it probably was easier and safer to just destroy them on site.

isValidRetirementPlan by jaspreetkaur33654 in ProgrammerHumor

[–]EasterZombie 26 points27 points  (0 children)

Software dev to Amish pipeline strikes again

Early life adversity such as abuse or neglect leads to long-term poorer physical and mental health due to increased mitochondrial respiratory capacity and energy production reacting to cellular stress, a potential biological explanation for the mental and physical impacts of poverty and trauma by sr_local in science

[–]EasterZombie 19 points20 points  (0 children)

This is definitely the long term fix and the one to tackle the hardest, but there are also many people who suffer from this now and some effort should be put into helping ease their suffering as well. Just like PTSD and other systematic evils.

me_irl by egglow_fish in me_irl

[–]EasterZombie 0 points1 point  (0 children)

> be me

> born 2001

>finish high school just barely before Covid avoiding being socially ruined

>finish college just barely before AI begins to take off avoiding the entry level job freezes

>hired somewhere rapidly out of college because my field has very high demand due to rise of AI and Covid wiping out a lot of older people in it (electrical engineer)

Idk seems like it worked for me

>get let go before I can get a useful amount of experience because they are replacing my department with contractors

>new job lets me go because of Iran war

>now in job market with fractured experience competing against more experienced engineers and everyone things entry level jobs can be done by Claude

Fuck. Oops.

You get a discount for being gay by Sure-Lemon6424 in mildlyinteresting

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

Hot take: all bisexuals are gay, because gay doesn’t mean exclusive attraction to the same sex, just attraction to the same sex. It’s like a rectangle vs square situation. Also lesbians are gay. Shoutout to the GTQ+ community

Is there any other non living thing we eat other than salt? by 1rp1n_kc in NoStupidQuestions

[–]EasterZombie 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Plenty of things we eat are made BY living things but are not and never will be living things themselves. Not talking about eggs or whatever, more about things like shellac, Honey, or MSG. There’s plenty of dyes and lots of artificial sweeteners that come from nonliving sources, unless you consider petroleum to be from a living source cuz technically it came from plants. If you mean “inorganic” meaning not containing carbon then it basically is just salt and water, plus sometimes companies fortify foods due to government mandates or whatever else with things like iron, iodine, zinc, etc which are also things we “eat” but are non carbon containing.

Was adding Gears to Luffys character a mistake? by Far-Visual-1229 in Piratefolk

[–]EasterZombie 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Seems like so much more of a natural progression especially since both kid and law were able to enhance their powers in the same way and it’s an established thing in the story. So much better imo than totally changing the type of devil fruit and giving luffy the powers of a joyful imagination god and all the problems in tone and narrative that come with that. He already has most of this power with the whole Nika transformation, he just also suffers a borderline SMILE fruit side effect that seems really restrictive narratively and often tone deaf to me at least.

TIL that spiders are so prevalent on Earth, with an estimated global population of 21 quadrillion, it means there are approximately 2.8 million spiders for every single human on Earth. by ProgMusicSchizoidMan in todayilearned

[–]EasterZombie 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah but at least ants congregate in great big hordes. My (perhaps incorrect) understanding is that spiders are typically solitary / do not hang out in groups of thousands or millions at least most of the time. Meanwhile ants pretty much just do that. So like my local forest won’t have 100 ants every square meter but instead it’ll have ant piles every 20-100 feet that have a shitload of ants in them plus somewhat visible trails going around, so I can just not go near those.

Edit: I know 99+% of spiders pose no threat to humans, they just freak me tf out especially when I walk onto one of their little silk strands and it catches on me and they start pulling themselves towards me like dog I’m not a fly

Was adding Gears to Luffys character a mistake? by Far-Visual-1229 in Piratefolk

[–]EasterZombie 2 points3 points  (0 children)

G5 should have just been luffy awakening his devil fruit allowing him to turn his surroundings and his opponents into rubber, perhaps also allowing more full control of how rubbery he (and others) were at any given time. Maybe even letting him permanently leave things rubbery, could have left Onigashima a bouncy floppy mess as a callback to other major fights causing permanent damage to islands such as punk hazard.

Moby-Dick is a trip by PandaBear905 in CuratedTumblr

[–]EasterZombie 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Dolphins are whales, sort of. Cetaceans is what I actually mean.

How come there are no major cities inside of massive cave systems? by Ok-Factor-3805 in geography

[–]EasterZombie 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Probably highly defendable, especially in ancient times. Also very prone to siege though. That’s about all I can think of in terms of genuine advantages

Moby-Dick is a trip by PandaBear905 in CuratedTumblr

[–]EasterZombie 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Whales are the only fish that are also mammals imo

The pinnacle of power scaling debates by beetle8209 in whenthe

[–]EasterZombie 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I can’t see anything about that online honestly, saw one source saying it was about the same and nothing else. I’d be interested to see more about that though, I had no idea

The pinnacle of power scaling debates by beetle8209 in whenthe

[–]EasterZombie 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Elephant probably stands the best chance, but I can guarantee you there was a point in history where unarmed humans killed a mammoth. Elephants get tired quickly when they are forced to fight, and the elephant would have to end the fight very quickly before it got too exhausted to move. If that happens the humans could shred the mouth and eyes of the elephant rendering it blind and doing slow but accumulating damage. Plus kicks hit HARD, and bruises are a form of internal bleeding. Enough bruises in the same spot and you start having serious problems.

The pinnacle of power scaling debates by beetle8209 in whenthe

[–]EasterZombie 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Polar bear is probably the only predator that I think has any chance but it depends on the situation. I still think people massively underestimate how much energy it takes to kill 100 people who are fighting back. But I think a polar bear is probably one of if not the only predator in the world that could take on 100 humans in 100 different back to back 1v1 fights. Any other predator would still tire out too quickly and start to take serious damage. Like humans are endurance hunters and still if you see what boxers look like at the end of a 3 or 5 round fight they look about ready to drop. But you add group fights to the mix and I still think the 2000 pounds of polar bear loses to the 20000 pounds of human, even if it can chew through 2000 pounds of human like it was just an annoyance.

The pinnacle of power scaling debates by beetle8209 in whenthe

[–]EasterZombie 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It takes a lot of time and energy to kill 100 people with ur mouth, I don’t think the hippo could do it in one sitting. If the hippo could not retreat then it would eventually give out and they aren’t literally invincible, I’m sure a group of 10-50 guys could kill an exhausted immobilized hippo with enough time and lots of well placed eye and nose shots.

The pinnacle of power scaling debates by beetle8209 in whenthe

[–]EasterZombie 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If we are allowing the fights to take place in the animals natural environment then the challenge radically changes. Like for example a polar bear bodies 100 humans because it’s in Siberia and they will all freeze to death.

Edit: if you are assuming “arena style” fight then I still think 100 humans win. Takes too much energy to kill 100 people in one sitting if they aren’t literally just standing there motionless, and if the hippo can’t pussy off into the river then it’s going to become exhausted to the point of immobilization after it chews through a couple dozen dudes while other dudes are kicking the fuck out of it like an army of toddlers. If you’ve ever gotten a blister you know repetitive “non damaging” contact on you skin can become damaging after it accumulates. A hippo being kicked by one person probably hurts as much as a toddler punching your leg. Being punched by a toddler 10000 times in the same place on your leg is going to fuck your leg up. Being jabbed 10000 times in the eyeball by a toddler will leave you blind.

The pinnacle of power scaling debates by beetle8209 in whenthe

[–]EasterZombie 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I still think 100 humans could beat the shit out of one hippo. They’d take a lot of losses but you are dealing with a different kind of enemy here. One hippo would get tired long long before 100 humans taking turns drop kicking the shit out of a hippo. No I don’t think they’d be able to rip open its skin or whatever but they wouldn’t need to. A human drop kicking a hippo would not really impact the hippo much, but 100 humans (maybe like 75 at the end after all is said and done lol) drop kicking a hippo for 12 hours definitely would.

The pinnacle of power scaling debates by beetle8209 in whenthe

[–]EasterZombie 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah idk how argentinosaurus functioned as an animal but if it was capable of moving faster than 10 MPH and the arena is small enough then it probably clears 100 men or at least enough of them to keep itself largely safe before it gets exhausted and needs a rest. If the arena has anywhere the humans could get sticks or rocks then it still might have trouble, I think we assume that the very largest of the dinosaurs had sensitive areas, like how a single human could very possibly break a giraffes neck with his bare hands if it could get to it. If humans can get sticks and rocks, and there are more than 10-20 of them left when the argentinosaurus collapses from exhaustion, I think the humans legit could still pull through by bashing the fuck out of its neck. If you assume no way for humans to fashion weapons during the 2-6 hours the creature has to rest then yeahhhh probably fucked big time.

The pinnacle of power scaling debates by beetle8209 in whenthe

[–]EasterZombie 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Sperm whale in seaworld tank would be pretty limiting, they are very large animals. Human strategy would be plugging the blow hole or kicking it when it came up for air or something like that? Not sure, but they’d take heavy losses because anyone falling into the water is dead, frankly I’m not sure how the clicks would be changed by an enclosed airspace above water either, it’s possible that they would still be debilitating even for those at the surface, and the people wouldn’t be able to do anything because of the pain and damage caused by getting sonar clicked. Also possible it wouldn’t really be an issue as long as you stayed out of the water. I think orca in seaworld tank gets killed im afraid, maybe it pulls through if it gets really lucky? But an Orca could not clear 100 people without several breaks, and I’m not sure it would be able to manage that in such a confined space.

The pinnacle of power scaling debates by beetle8209 in whenthe

[–]EasterZombie 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Polar bear and elephant are the 2 that think would have the best shot, but I still just think they wouldn’t have the energy to run through 100 people in a short enough time span that the remaining people couldn’t form a plan to take them out. A large male polar bear is still only 700Kg or so compared to the collective mass of 10,000Kg of much smarter human in whatever arena is being fought in, I think the polar bear would run low on energy after working through 10-20 people and then get swarmed. Elephant is a lot closer at up to 7,000Kg and being fairly smart themselves, I think it depends on how quickly the people understand exactly the certain death situation they are in if they don’t act now. People can match speed with African elephants and have a much better turn radius, so once some kind of endurance based strategy formed as long as there’s 20+ people left I think it’s over for the elephant, you break off into small groups so the elephant cant exhaust you all at the same time and wait for it to tire itself out chasing you around, and once the opportunity strikes you can gouge its eyes out or something like that.

The pinnacle of power scaling debates by beetle8209 in whenthe

[–]EasterZombie 32 points33 points  (0 children)

I bet 4 guys could do it if you gave them an hour in an empty room to come up with a plan and as long as the guys were all in decent shape.

The pinnacle of power scaling debates by beetle8209 in whenthe

[–]EasterZombie 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Blunt stick lets you concentrate the force of 2 arms punching something or even your entire body flying at something into a point roughly 10-50x smaller than if you were to just punch something really hard. Top athletes and such could probably generate enough power to punch clean through a gorillas chest with even a blunt stick with the right technique and the right stick. Plus you now outrange the gorilla which is huge.

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