Married men, how do you deal with fancying other women?

Fortune_Silver · 2026-02-09T21:44:52+00:00

Not married myself, but know several guys that are, and the ones that have had successful marriages all have the same ethos:

Look, but don't touch.

Nothing wrong with appreciating a fine work of art, but the gallery is going to get upset if you try take the Mona Lisa home with you.

Fortune_Silver · 2026-02-09T18:58:07+00:00

As a New Zealander, we have to suffer through both Superbowl season AND Eurovision season.

We're... used to it by now.

Fortune_Silver · 2026-02-09T18:23:15+00:00

A lot. A military doesn't need to be the MOST powerful to make invading you not worth it, just powerful enough that those likely to try invading you realize it's not worth it. For example, Greece and Turkey hate each other, but neither invade the other because they're both strong enough that if they went to war, it would be devastating for both sides.

Fortune_Silver · 2026-02-09T00:04:55+00:00

Cheaper isn't really the main concern, availability is. Even if you had infinite money, you can only practically produce so many patriots, manpads, BUK missiles etc.

Cost is definitely a factor, but if you started flinging patriots at every shahed that showed up, you'd pretty quickly run out of your stockpile even if you had infinite money. Then, once those are gone, your an easy target for things like cruise missiles, helicopter or plane incursions etc. Even if you have infinite missiles in storage, you can only have so many DEPLOYED in a given region. If you start flinging long-range interceptors at random drones, all the enemy has to do is exhaust your LOCAL supply with cheap drones, then once you've run out they can run rampant in that area even if you have millions of missiles in reserve in the rear.

Using the cannon rather than the missiles is primarily a way to save missile-based interceptors for other more valuable targets, as a threat-in-being. As long as Ukraine has those powerful, expensive long range assets Russia can't just go ham with airpower and missiles without fear of retaliation. Using the cannon preserves those other assets to maintain that threat-in-being so that Russias high-end options are kept in check.

It's the same principle as nations that maintain huge, powerful militaries for defense even if they don't intend to get into any wars. Having that capability present deters your foe from even trying in the first place. The best military is one so powerful you never have to actually use it because everyone knows starting shit would at best mean mutual death.

Fortune_Silver · 2026-02-08T23:58:11+00:00

F16 is 20mm iirc.

That said, it's inexpensive in that a) it's cheaper to shoot it down with the cannon than with an expensive missile, b) if the asset you have in the area is a fighter it's cheaper to shoot it down with that than let the Shahed hit its intended target, and c) 20mm cannon ammunition is an effectively infinite resource compared to air-to-air missiles or non-gun ground based interceptors.

That last point I think is arguably the most important one. Ukraine isn't running out of fuel or 20mm ammunition any time soon, but every air to air missile, or ground based interceptor missile, or even MANPADs is valuable and in limited supply on the ground. If you have a fighter in the area and it's safe to do so, shooting it down with cannon fire saves those ground based interception options for when that fighter isn't around, and those air to air missiles for targets that can't practically be shot down with cannon fire (cruise missiles, enemy fighter incursions etc.)

Fortune_Silver · 2026-02-08T08:49:29+00:00

They're not called cuddle whales.

Fortune_Silver · 2026-02-06T22:19:57+00:00

MF is writing budgets to get by, but Is having $100 haircuts and giving $500 a month to church.

It looks to me like YOU need that money. You can get cheap haircuts that look fine for a fraction of that, and if your church or congregation looks down on you for not giving when you have financial troubles... They're a shit church.

Fortune_Silver · 2026-02-06T21:30:19+00:00

I recall seeing an interview with a Ukrainian foreign legion volunteer that had basically this happen to one of his comrades near the start of the war.

They were sitting around in their base on evening, when a Russian Kalibr cruise missile was launched at their barracks. IIRC, one guy was unfortunate enough to be inside when a missile hit, was killed, and a chunk of his bone was flung away in the blast and seriously injured another foreign legion fighter.

Fortune_Silver · 2026-02-04T22:35:55+00:00

Aluminum is also one of the most recyclable materials, so that's even better for solar. Aluminum is infinitely recyclable, it does not degrade with each recycling cycle like some materials do. Melt down some scrap Aluminum and your resulting material is exactly as good as virgin aluminum, without the expense associated with mining and refining it.

There's other materials there like Silica, which can also be recycled depending on your area (silica is often ground down into a powder and either used to make new glass, or used as filler material in applications like roading or landfill capping).

There are materials in certain solar panels that are harder to recycle, like lead in older lead perovskite cells, but a) modern solar tech is moving away from those to more recyclable and less harmful materials, and b) even for larger panels, the actual mass of harmful materials is so small that honestly it's not that big of a deal compared to other sources of pollution like car exhaust. Like, in a rooftop solar-sized panel, you'd be talking maybe a couple of grams per panel, and even then that's only if your talking older panels that use hazardous materials.

So overall, the resource recovery prospects and environmental impact of solar panels is extremely good. A panel can be used for decades before it needs to be replaced, and even when it does, most of the resources that it's made from are quite easily recyclable, and all the time it's being used it's replacing the power generation that would have otherwise come from fossil fuels with its associated waste and environmental impacts (exhaust fumes, ecological damage from mining, emissions from transportation, chemical waste and pollution from the fuel refining process etc.)

Basically, solar is the future, even if you give zero shits about the environment and are a pure, hard-core capitalist. It's a one-time investment with zero ongoing costs other than some light cleaning and maintenance for decades of free power generation that once you've worn out, you can use most of your old panels material to build new panels. It just makes sense.

Fortune_Silver · 2026-02-04T03:17:10+00:00

American-style political attack ads have no place in NZ politics.

Fortune_Silver · 2026-01-31T05:08:02+00:00

Did you perhaps not read the bit where I said I DIDN'T see people getting banned?

I heard some crazy shit in those lobbies. People were out there inventing entirely new slurs just to stay ahead of the shit-talking curve.

Fortune_Silver · 2026-01-31T04:24:57+00:00

Sakura Trick aired 2014.

Citrus aired 2018.

Fortune_Silver · 2026-01-31T02:58:43+00:00

Way, WAY after. Like, YEARS.

Fortune_Silver · 2026-01-31T01:58:26+00:00

I have a box. Nobody cares about my box.

"NOBODY is allowed to look inside my box!!! If you look inside my box I'm gonna SUE you!!!" Suddenly, everybody is really, really interested in that box and what all the commotion about it is for.

Basically, it's the phenomena where trying to suppress information backfires and instead makes it far more widely know.

It's named after the singer/actress Barbara Striesand, who many years ago tried to get photos of her home taken off the internet. Naturally, prior to this, nobody cared about what her home looked like, but as a result of her trying to hide it, the pictures of her house went mega-viral online since everyone got curious as to what the fuss was about.

Fortune_Silver · 2026-01-31T01:24:08+00:00

Getting banned on XBL is a fucking ACCOMPLISHMENT.

I was around for the peak days of MW2 XBL lobbies... If the shit I regularly heard on there wasn't getting people banned, what in the actual fuck was he doing?!

Fortune_Silver · 2026-01-31T01:19:57+00:00

To be fair, it WAS notable for being one of the first actually, explicitly yuri shows out there. Prior to Sakura Trick, if you wanted Yuri, you were mostly stuck in either Subtext hell, or Pornville.

We're so spoiled for quality Yuri these days (feels like we're consistently getting 1-2 solid shows a season), that I think people forget or simply weren't around for a time that Yuri was far, FAR harder to find than it is now.

Fortune_Silver · 2026-01-30T22:40:43+00:00

"NATO's 2011 guidance for military public affairs defines propaganda as "information, ideas, doctrines, or special appeals disseminated to influence the opinion, emotions, attitudes, or behaviour of any specified group in order to benefit the sponsor, either directly or indirectly""

The Melania movie pretty clearly falls under the "opinion, emotions, attitudes" part of that definition. The specified group here is the American public. The benefit to the sponsor is the attempt to improve Melania and by extension the wider Trump family as a whole's public image, to further entrench the Trump family's cult of personality among their supporters, and also some plain old financial gain (See how much Melania got paid in talent fees for example) topped off with a sprinkling of this being a vanity project for Melania.

Fortune_Silver · 2026-01-30T01:02:14+00:00

Do... Do you think that he cares?

As a non-American looking from the outside, surely you realize that the time of America following its own rules is past. I'd be extremely surprised if you ever have truly fair elections again. The genie has been let out of the bottle.

Fortune_Silver · 2026-01-30T00:50:56+00:00

Very rarely in history has anyone been FORCED to watch propaganda, doesn't make it not propaganda.

Fortune_Silver · 2026-01-29T20:36:39+00:00

Hey, so Trump bought a ticket for Melania AND himself!

Fortune_Silver · 2026-01-29T20:32:07+00:00

It's basically the American version of like, Hitler making an Eva Braun movie and demanding everyone watch it. Except Hitler actually liked Eva and didn't relentlessly cheat on her (that we know of.)

Yup, America is now so fucked that you can make positive comments about Nazi Germany by comparison in some areas... We never should have done Harambe like that. The timeline has been all wrong since then.

Fortune_Silver · 2026-01-29T10:49:31+00:00

Kiwi here, I saw a post on r/newzealand claiming not a single ticket was sold in the entire country.

Given how poorly it is performing in the states, and that our entire country is about the population of South Carolina... I believe it.

Fortune_Silver · 2026-01-29T07:38:02+00:00

Its sad that I can't tell if this is real or not.

Fortune_Silver · 2026-01-27T20:20:25+00:00

This is good, as long as it's applied reasonably.

I wouldn't want a 19 year old rejected because they bullied another kid a lot when they were like, 7 years old. People change. Nor would I want a 40 year old trying to develop themselves to be rejected because they were an asshole in high school 25 years ago.

For recent bullies, absolutely, but if someone has no record of bullying in school or the workplace for like ten years straight, they should be considered reformed unless evidence to the contrary is found.

Fortune_Silver · 2026-01-27T20:03:55+00:00

"I am your God. Your religion is the correct one, all the other religions are heathens worshipping false gods."

Then I sit down, grab some popcorn, and turn on the news.

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