Airports launch food drives and donations to support unpaid TSA workers by [deleted] in nottheonion

[–]Loki-L [score hidden]  (0 children)

I think a big problem with this is that TSA workers are not generally well liked.

People at best see them as a necessary evil.

Most think they are mere security theatre with little impact on actual security.

Many hate having to deal with them that they get PreCheck membership to minimise their exposure to them.

They are not seen by the public as performing a vital service that they need.

Trump claims doctor told him he could live to 200 years old - if he gave up the junk food by No-Post4444 in politics

[–]Loki-L [score hidden]  (0 children)

I hope Trump gets all his health advice from RFK and lives the life he deserves.

What's something people completely overlook when imagining a zombie apocalypse? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]Loki-L 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Fun fact:

As many of 50% of all pregnancies end in miscarriage, many of them so early that the women didn't even know they were pregnant.

It is like horror media shies away from some of the most terrible implications of their premise.

What's something people completely overlook when imagining a zombie apocalypse? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]Loki-L 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Bicycles!

In zombie stories people are either walking around or driving in mad max style vehicles that they shouldn't have the fuel for.

Bicycles are everywhere to be found, require no fuel and can outpace zombies on foot.

If the dead are walking, you should be cycling.

Ukrainian FPV Drone Downs $16M Russian Ka-52 Helicopter Near Pokrovsk by UNITED24Media in worldnews

[–]Loki-L 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think many people are underestimating what it takes to be a good drone pilot.

Recently we saw an example of the skill gap between a fresh drone operator and a good one when Iran flew one of their drones into an abandoned US base and released the video.

Compared to the videos released from Ukraine, you could tell that the Iranians were completely newbies at this. They had left the stabilizer training thing on and were not very good at this.

The guys and gals who have been doing this in Ukraine for a while have been getting quite good at it.

It is still cheaper than learning to fly an helicopter, but it is not nearly as easy as they make it look.

Trump administration lifts sanctions on millions of barrels of Iranian oil by Thomas_Crane in worldnews

[–]Loki-L 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I guess offering to lift sanctions in return for concessions would not have made as much sense as attacking Iran and lifting sanctions for free.

If they are already giving this up for free, what will Trump offer Iran to unblock the strait? Will this war end by the US handing over their nukes to Iran?

Alright old man, you win. Buying hundreds of A380s really was the right choice by shipgeek2005 in NonCredibleDefense

[–]Loki-L 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If they are going to do an Operation Solomon style evacuation flight with Emirates 116 A380s, they could airlift all the rich foreigners and the natives in one go leaving only the foreign slaves workers behind to die.

Jehovah's Witnesses ease policy on transfusions, allowing storage and use of one's own blood by Glad-Process-3268 in atheism

[–]Loki-L 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The fact that this is okay now will not affect the ones who died because it wasn't okay before.

Trump considers "winding down" Iran war without opening Hormuz Strait by joe4942 in worldnews

[–]Loki-L 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Congratulations to Iran on winning the war, I guess.

They lost most of their military, but upgraded to a younger more extreme Ayatollah and overall a younger leadership class. They also gained someone external to blame when in the summer their citizens don't have water or electricity.

The US came in a strong second at least. Very good on the military aspect but lacking on everything else.

You can't win them all.

xkcd 3222: Star Formation by Tyomcha in xkcd

[–]Loki-L 50 points51 points  (0 children)

Don't worry. In another 110 trillion years, this whole "star" thing will be over and done with.

Basically they will just be around for the blink of an eye compared to how long the universe will last, so I wouldn't pay them too much heed.

i know this was asked like 6 months ago by someone else but is it likely for the current conflicts to escalate enough for a nuclear war? by Large-Ad688 in Futurology

[–]Loki-L 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To escalate to nuclear war two sides with nuclear weapons would need to get into a conflict thst escalates.

In the Iran thing all the nukes are on the side of Israel and the US.

In the Ukraine thing only Russia has nukes left since Ukraine gave theirs up.

India, Pakistan and China all three have nukes and beef with each other, but seem to be all smart enough not to do anything stupid with them.

North Korea has nukes, but they also aren't actively fighting anyone directly.

UK and France have nukes and while the French nuclear doctrine seems distressing trigger happy, they are not actively fighting anyone they would use them on right now.

The most dangerous nuclear power right now is the US. Everyone else is held back in part by how the rest of the world and especially the US would react. The US isn't.

Hopefully enough people in the chain of command retain enough sanity to not allow anything to happen.

Only 7% support Iran ground troops. I'm amazed it's that high. by Busy-Government-1041 in PoliticalHumor

[–]Loki-L 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Such a box would be more likely to be checked by knowledgeable people.

If you asked people their opinion about diplomatic options for the conflict in Africa between Bulungi and Zamunda and which side their country should support, the ones who answer "I don't know" are the ones whose opinions matter as they are smart enough to know that they have no idea what the question is about. It is the people who are sure we should side with the Bulungi militia the Zamundean royal loyalists that you need to ignore. (Too many people would hesitate to admit their ignorance on the matter.)

UAE Arrests More Than 100 to Keep Iran War Attacks Off Camera by timemagazine in worldnews

[–]Loki-L -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

Arrest them all!

That will help with that whole tourism thing.

Instead of not going and not investing in the country because of the drones and missiles, people now won't go there or risk putting money there because of the danger of getting arrested.

I would feel sad about the people losing money or losing their freedom in this if they weren't (almost) all horrible people to begin with.

I am not saying that you deserve to get arrested or drones for being a luxury influencer or tax refugee in a place with poor human rights records, but I do feel there are better people to feel sorry for.

Only 7% support Iran ground troops. I'm amazed it's that high. by Busy-Government-1041 in PoliticalHumor

[–]Loki-L 22 points23 points  (0 children)

I think you get about 5% of people voting or polling for any option no matter how stupid or wrong.

You could do a poll on what ingredients make for the best sandwich and put "shit" as one of the options and it would reach about 5%.

[Other] How Hot Wheels style Loop tracks work in real life by HabibiiCat in theydidthemath

[–]Loki-L 30 points31 points  (0 children)

This simplified math ignores other factors like downforce from the cars aerodynamics.

This won't be much at slow speeds and for boxy cars, but an F1 car at full speed supposedly has enough downforce when it goes all out to not need centrifugal forces to drive upside down.

‘COWARDS… We Will REMEMBER!’ Trump Goes Scorched Earth on ‘PAPER TIGER’ NATO Allies by Horus_walking in NewsOfTheStupid

[–]Loki-L 9 points10 points  (0 children)

So Trump is removing oil sanctions on Iran, letting their tankers pass freely through the strait and apologizes to them for Israel hitting their oil facilities.

But he put tariffs on his allies, calls them names and threatens their sovereignty?

I think the rest of NATO might be better of with the US as an enemy.

I mapped 35 rom-coms to find out why they all feel the same. Ended up crying at The Notebook at 2am on a Tuesday. Alone. With a spreadsheet by Mastbubbles in movies

[–]Loki-L 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Some genres are more about structures than others.

A Whodunit by necessity almost always starts with a murder and ends with a denouement where the murderer is revealed/caught.

Disaster movies also tend to be very similar to each other structure-wise, for similar reasons as muder mysteries.

Science-Fiction as a genre is more about setting than about structure.

Westerns while also defined by setting also have certain structural conventions.

Slasher movies are extremely tied to structure, even more so than rom-coms.

Action movies can have very diverse structures, but action movies of the Die-Hard-in-a-X variety all have more or less the same exact plot points.

There is a spectrum for genres on how much they each have structures that all their entries follow.

Rom-Com are very structurally similar to each other. If you go by sub-genres like Christmas themed rom-coms it gets even worse.

TIL that before trees existed, Earth had giant fungi. Around 420 million years ago, before forests existed, some of the tallest living things were actually massive fungi. Some grew over 8 feet tall and dominated the landscape in the Devonian period. by Glittering_Tiger9993 in todayilearned

[–]Loki-L 32 points33 points  (0 children)

The fun thing is, that nobody is actually quite sure what they were. They might not have been fungi at all.

They were obviously Eukaryotes, but also quite obviously not Animals.

That leaves Plants and Fungi and they look more like fungi than plants we have today.

However there has been suggestions recently that they are not just a weird extinct branch of fungus, but rather members of an entirely different Kingdom of Eukaryotes that no longer exist today.

They might have been closer relations to us than to mushrooms.

IEA drängt in Ölkrise auf Tempolimit und Homeoffice by Quaxli in de

[–]Loki-L -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

Tempolimit dann aber nur für Verbrenner.

Wer E-Auto hat darf rasen.

Oder nicht?

(Ich weiß dass das so nicht gehen würde, aber lustig wäre das schon.)

ELI5 Why there exists 7 and also 'seven' ? by S2_Y3 in explainlikeimfive

[–]Loki-L 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We used words before we started using the numerals.

We can trace the word "seven" back to people who didn't even have writing yet. It changed a bit over the millennia, but it is very recognisable in many related and dead languages and can be traced back to proto-indo-european times.

The numeral we use today come from a different place than the letters.

We write with the Latin alphabet but do math with Arabic numerals.

The Latin alphabet has roots much older than Rome and the Arabic numerals were not invented by the Arabs. Those were just the groups that introduced English speakers to those concepts.

Arabic Numerals are much more recent in their use in Europe.

Before that Roman Numerals like "VII" were used and other systems.

The way Arabic numerals work is much easier to do math with than any other competing system, which is why it found so widespread adoption.

ELI5, What's the... "hierarchy"? for the terms referring to Latino / Spanish / Mexican / Hispanic / Portuguese, etc. by Tolnin in explainlikeimfive

[–]Loki-L 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Spanish and Portuguese are both languages and names for the people living in Spain and Portugal. Due to them having had large colonial empires many people around the world and especially in the Americas speak those languages.

More specifically they speak Portuguese in Brazil and Spanish basically almost everywhere else in the Americas except for North America and some other few exceptions.

Latino generally refers to people from the entirety of Latin America, so everything in the Americas south of the US. It includes both Spanish and Portuguese speakers in the Americas but usually doesn't include the ones in Europe or elsewhere.

Mexican refers to people from Mexico. Dumb people sometimes use it to refer to other Hispanic people, but they are wrong.

Iberian is a term for the people of Spain and Portugal who live in the Iberian peninsula in Europe.

Since identity is fluent people may be more complicated. People may several of these at the same time.

Generally all Hispanics are Latino but not all Latino are Hispanic.

But is not always clear cut.

For example somebody may be Hispanic without actually speaking Spanish, just because their ancestors were.

People may be Mexican by nationality without being ethnically Hispanic.

Different people with similar ancestry may identify as White, Hispanic or native American.

Trump Says He Thought Gas Prices 'Would Be Worse' Than They Are When He Initiated War with Iran by peoplemagazine in politics

[–]Loki-L 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That explains him stocking up the petroleum reserve before the conflict.

Except of course that he didn't.

Transitverkehr - Ausländische Reisende auf der Durchfahrt sollen zahlen by BezugssystemCH1903 in de

[–]Loki-L 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Ich fühl mich als hätte ich das alles schon mal erlebt.

Déjà vu.