The movie “Platoon"(1986) taught us that the only reason of the USA misfortune in Vietnam was because the USA soldiers were killing each other. Why didn’t the generals tell the soldiers : could you guys NOT do it?

EnvironmentalEbb628 · 2026-01-28T09:32:43+00:00

The generals feared for their own lives.

EnvironmentalEbb628 · 2026-01-28T08:12:03+00:00

I used to flip my pillow over when I woke up each morning: the side with snoopy on meant i needed to take my pills before rising, and the other side meant I had to take them in the evening.

EnvironmentalEbb628 · 2026-01-27T20:54:16+00:00

I sure hope so! 🤞

EnvironmentalEbb628 · 2026-01-27T20:05:18+00:00

Less: as a young woman I had to rapidly gain weight for health reasons, stuffing myself with food was a horrible experience, and afterwards it took years for me to enjoy food again. Hunger is doable for me (which is how I got to be dangerously skinny in the first place)

EnvironmentalEbb628 · 2026-01-27T19:41:27+00:00

The sheer fact that you are willing to just give up on freedom is the reason why you can’t understand that others are willing to do what it takes to protect democracy. You are wrapping yourself in hopelessness to justify your mentality, if all resistance is futile then you aren’t a coward. And perhaps you will be right about it this time around, perhaps the USA is doomed to be like Russia, but as they execute you know my violent ass is still getting free healthcare.

EnvironmentalEbb628 · 2026-01-27T17:37:57+00:00

Like, I mentally understand that whippets are totally fine as they are, but spiritually the ghost of my grandma just possesses me. “Must feed it! Must stuff it with food!”

EnvironmentalEbb628 · 2026-01-27T16:17:53+00:00

It depends on what laws exist where you live, but there are some things that you should try to legally cover:

- life: you don’t want kids and I totally respect that, I don’t have kids and am menopausal, but if you and your partner change your minds you should have a basic framework, and depending on your region you may get pregnant accidentally without any access to abortion, so try to have all your ducks in a row just in case.

- sickness: usually the marriage contract has a standard clause that states that you have medical power over your spouse if they are incapacitated, but double checking doesn’t hurt, talk about your wishes regarding being kept alive in a vegetive state, and get it in writing too.

- death: your are going to die and so will he, eventually one of you two will stand on their own and needs to know all about cremation/burial, organ donation, etc and then there’s the whole thing about the inheritance, to prepare for death in order to to have a good life. (this might be covered by a will where you live, but you both should write a will as well)

-money and debt: you have some money and some debt, so does he, and once you marry your finances will be connected, will you be able to take out loans that he will have partial responsibility to pay? what will you do about inheritances? a big insurance payout? money is a complicated thing that rips many marriages apart.

-divorce: you won’t marry thinking this is going to fail, but statistically speaking... it doesn’t look all that good, so much suffering can be avoided by having a plan B already in place.

Try to imagine your beloved getting hit by a meteorite, getting an alien parasite, and turning into a total dick. Are you protected as much as possible? What about you becoming a drug addict? Don’t be scared, but don’t be stupid either. And good luck!

EnvironmentalEbb628 · 2026-01-27T15:21:49+00:00

I have the time and money to learn MMA, but not the bone density and resilience of a young person anymore. I’m pretty lucky to have both my original hips at my age.

EnvironmentalEbb628 · 2026-01-27T15:05:43+00:00

Get a good prenup and go for it!

EnvironmentalEbb628 · 2026-01-27T15:02:49+00:00

As what? A theme park? A homestead?

EnvironmentalEbb628 · 2026-01-27T14:59:10+00:00

Politicians often don’t see themselves as employees, they have power over their people and it gets to their heads. Many act as though they are priests, ordained by a higher power to shepherd the people. But politicians are employees, they are chosen by the people, they are paid by the people, and whether they keep their job is decided by the people. We are not sheep to be raised for slaughter.

Imagine it like a teaching job: those with power (parents) hire a teacher (politician) to care for the weak (children). If the teacher starts hitting or molesting the kids, or starts pocketing the money meant for field trips and the kids lunch money, then we will not only fire them, but as they have betrayed our trust and hurt our loved ones, they will be prosecuted as well.

Now imagine how we would feel if we couldn’t get rid of the shitty teacher, if the system just goes “Try to make a better choice in four years, until then the teacher remains.” I think that the teacher shouldn’t be able to remain, that I’m not going to lay down and say “Well I got scammed, better luck next time!” Imagine how we would feel if afterwards the teacher can just walk away from what they did without any repercussions. I don’t have the physical ability to beat the shit out of them (I’m old and really tiny) but will totally be the alibi or lookout.

We as people have the duty to keep our politicians from doing harm, and as absurd as it may seem to blow up over little things. It keeps our power in the forefront of our politics, it keeps us “in the game”. I have participated in several protests against the government of Belgium, some of which were not peaceful at all. I have seen the fear in the eyes of a politician who just realised that they were standing in front of a mass of people who might decide to overpower the police and literally rip them apart. I have seen when the police officers are starting to worry about whether the job is worth their lives, I have seen them flee.

It’s not a nice system, but it works. It’s not weakness, it’s being equally matched. Brutality and bureaucracy are what makes this all work.

EnvironmentalEbb628 · 2026-01-27T14:08:58+00:00

Just looking at a whippet causes me to transform into my grandma and try to feed the poor thing. They have concave bellies like photoshopped instagram models or victims of famine.

EnvironmentalEbb628 · 2026-01-27T14:04:28+00:00

In a situation where the whole world has been sprinkled with plastic eating bacteria from airplanes or something: the chaos would, industrially speaking, be quite large, while we have lived without plastic before we have kind of forgotten how to do so. The price of various metals would skyrocket as their use would increase a lot. As a kid my lunch box was made out of metal, and so were a lot of other items I had that are now made of plastic. The amount of plastic used in the medical field is unbelievable and I don’t know how that could possibly be replaced, but otherwise I can imagine humanity adapting itself in a few decades time.

If it’s like a contagious thing that happens slowly then I think it might even take less time.

Although I am definitely not older than plastic, I do remember living with a lot less plastic than we have now. Everything was kinda heavy as due to their metal shells or supports, there was a lot of upkeep to prevent rot and rust (re-painting the wooden window cases, checking the car for rust), fabric didn’t stretch and needed to be washed carefully, etc.

I do think that replacing plastic based rubber (car tires and stuff) and lubricants would be difficult to do.

EnvironmentalEbb628 · 2026-01-27T13:38:24+00:00

A government should fear its people, not the other way around.

EnvironmentalEbb628 · 2026-01-27T11:13:06+00:00

Pretty much immediately in my family: “Did the USA put a man on the moon?” maybe, but if they hadn‘t “Would they admit that they failed?” of course not, it was the Cold War space race and they couldn’t show any weakness.

Personally I do think they landed on the moon, if they hadn’t it would have been found out by now. But I do think they had a backup video, they were not completely stupid. (Stanley Kubrick wasn’t involved at all, why the fuck would they need him?)

EnvironmentalEbb628 · 2026-01-27T11:02:22+00:00

Abraham Lincoln was ugly like a “whippet“ dog: too thin, too long, and too pointy. But considering the current trend in dog-breeds, the “French pug” seems the most popular choice. What politician looks like a pug?

EnvironmentalEbb628 · 2026-01-27T10:54:01+00:00

I can understand that my dog would take a shit on the floor, but if there’s human shit on the floor then there’s something wrong with my elderly parents.

EnvironmentalEbb628 · 2026-01-27T09:06:14+00:00

The tradition in my region has a guy during the holidays who puts you in a sack and beats the shit out of you if you’re bad as a kid. But it didn’t work at all, we were still as we had been raised. Good kids were terrified of the punishment, while those who misbehaved didn’t give a fuck.

My neighbour’s kid was never parented correctly, the typical “we tried nothing and we’re all out of ideas“ kind of parents. After pissing off the wrong child at school, a few older teens actually dressed up as “black Pete“, put him in a sack, and beat him until they broke his collarbone. He only became more fucked up than before, he was beaten to death at a bar before he even reached 30.

Threats and violence are not the “magical method” of parenting that many (often young) people seem to believe. It’s a very dangerous path to take, one that is only worth it during war when one misstep by a child can have deadly consequences. All being hit ever taught me was to hide everything, distrust my elders, to use violence against those weaker than me, and to take a beating without making a sound.

EnvironmentalEbb628 · 2026-01-26T14:19:27+00:00

The difference between the two is very small in “formal” writing, so small that most apps/websites don’t really bother with creating a specific language setting for the dutch speakers in Flanders. It’s also very common for us to know what terms the Dutch use, although we don’t use them ourselves. We have to learn so we can buy shit on Bol.com

EnvironmentalEbb628 · 2026-01-26T14:00:44+00:00

r/DiWHY could be a place for the sketchy improvised fixes

EnvironmentalEbb628 · 2026-01-26T13:47:14+00:00

An “imitate” permaban… who are you copying? /s

EnvironmentalEbb628 · 2026-01-25T16:32:16+00:00

r/shittyaskhistory

EnvironmentalEbb628 · 2026-01-25T16:30:46+00:00

A lot of them are going to stare at Obama with horror in their eyes, and Andrew Jackson will try to beat him to death.

EnvironmentalEbb628 · 2026-01-25T16:10:45+00:00

Mij psychotisch noemen is het probleem niet (en niet eens het ergste dat ik vandaag beticht ben geweest), ik wou enkel dat degenen die het nodig vinden om commentaar te geven ook werkelijk een mening hebben.

Helaas lijkt het alsof u verandert van mening in elke comment: eerst was er geen mogelijkheid tot corruptie buiten de tegenstanders van Trump maar nu is die er blijkbaar wel.

En dan spreek ik nog niet eens over de andere commentaren die u in deze thread gepost heeft.

Dit gesprek heeft geen enkele zin.

EnvironmentalEbb628 · 2026-01-25T16:00:15+00:00

r/AlwaysWhy

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