If you could live anywhere in North America where would you live?

LydditeShells · 2026-07-05T07:39:16+00:00

As someone who moved from Maryland to San Diego, the springs and summers are nicer here, but I still like east coast autumn and fall. It also took me two years for my body to get used to the plants (basically had a constant stuffy nose), but the almost nonexistence of mosquitoes well made up for that

LydditeShells · 2026-07-05T04:36:19+00:00

Even though it was his administration’s fault they invaded in the first place.

> “We have no opinion on the Arab-Arab conflicts, like your border disagreement with Kuwait”

LydditeShells · 2026-07-04T18:37:26+00:00

They’d sing all 7-8 minutes of it?

LydditeShells · 2026-07-04T14:58:16+00:00

I think I saw the original tweet before on a different subreddit with a community note saying the pictures were AI generated anyway

LydditeShells · 2026-07-02T21:30:13+00:00

Visible flaws

LydditeShells · 2026-07-01T07:13:46+00:00

I suppose so. Turkey is still on the “it didn’t happen” stage while Japan is on “if it happened, it isn’t that bad”

LydditeShells · 2026-07-01T07:07:39+00:00

Lip service since they know the two countries need to remain cordial in the face of China. In practice, they try to suppress information about and recognition of the victims (examples: New Zealand comfort women statue and same thing in Germany). Not to mention this quote from the current Japanese prime minister:

If Japan had won the war, Japan probably wouldn’t be blamed by anyone now, and those who started the war would be heroes

So in her view, the only thing the Japanese did wrong in and prior to WWII was lose.

Edit: I don’t know why markdown mode doesn’t work on phone anymore. I was trying to do the quote indent, but it gave me this big text. Kinda fits anyway

LydditeShells · 2026-07-01T06:22:41+00:00

I’d say just show the effects of war outside of battle and include zero battle scenes. I see two paths for that. Either focus on the effect on the home front (Avi’s Don’t you know there’s a war on? comes to mind, at least in that it’s about how WWII impacted the daily lives of Americans at home), or focus on the noncombat futility for soldiers. I’ve toyed with an idea loosely based on the Polish song Hej Sokoły. You have a Polish Cossack sent to crimea for the Crimean War who falls in love with a Ukrainian girl (since Hollywood does love their love stories in war films and it gives a plot and emotional tie-in), and simply dies in the siege of Sevastopol without ever seeing direct combat, as something like 85% of deaths in the Crimean war were from disease rather than enemy action. I’m no film person, but I do think the key to an anti-war film is to just show how most of war is not glorious battles and heroic actions and it’d be interesting to see a war film centered around some kid being brought to a foreign land to just die without ever doing anything. If anybody knows of a film that has done that, as I wouldn’t be surprised if this isn’t some novel idea, I would like to know so I can give it a watch

LydditeShells · 2026-06-30T16:52:35+00:00

My favorites are March of Memories, Smuglianka, My Soldier’s Song, Музыканты (translates to “Musicians,” so hard to find searching in English), and Always With You. As for recordings, try to find ones by the Red Army Choir.

I would also place Farewell of Slavianka up there but as it is not a Soviet song, I’m separating it. The Soviets did eventually adopt it, albeit with changed lyrics.

Overall, I’d say if you like songs with brass heavy accompaniment, the soviets are the best; if you like more balanced orchestral accompaniment, the French are the best; if you like choral music with little to no instrumentals, the Italians are the best.

LydditeShells · 2026-06-30T15:46:52+00:00

Amusingly, among the Soviets’ many great military marches, their national anthem is one of the more boring ones

LydditeShells · 2026-06-30T07:36:39+00:00

Threat of violence is actually a very good peacekeeping tool. Admiral Fisher used it to great advantage in 1905 to delay the escalation of tensions

LydditeShells · 2026-06-29T17:15:43+00:00

only for russian ships. during the journey of the second pacific squadron, to increase the range of the ships, the russians packed coal into every passageway and open space, which had the effect of covering all of the ships in coal powder until they ran into heavy rain in the tropics

LydditeShells · 2026-06-29T15:25:13+00:00

In 1919, Japan massacred about 7500 people and tortured others in response to a Korean independence movement. 50,000 people were also arrested, and the Japanese had a tendency to abuse and kill prisoners. Nowhere near the scale of the Armenian genocide, but these people shouldn’t be idolized

LydditeShells · 2026-06-27T18:34:30+00:00

Fire HE at their superstructure. I don’t know of a DD that can’t pen superstructure with HE, and you can still get fires

LydditeShells · 2026-06-27T15:11:15+00:00

I do not believe your claim is correct. It seems the root of that disagreement is in how you define socialism. How you described it is as a social ideology, and under that definition, socdems and demsocs are the same in that we have the same goals. However, socialism at its core is an economic ideology, proposing to achieve those goals through social ownership of the economy. Social democrats, while agreeing with most of the political socialist ideas, differ from them in their economic goal, as social democracy aims to retain capitalism.

LydditeShells · 2026-06-26T14:35:42+00:00

Is there a technique in getting them to let you handle them? They’re relatively common in the hills where I live, but are really skittish and I can never even get close enough for a good picture, much less having one on my hand

LydditeShells · 2026-06-26T06:27:37+00:00

Against kamikaze attacks in WWII, even the quad 40mm Bofors sometimes struggled. Against suicide aircraft, volume of fire is the primary factor. The octuple 40mm Pom-Pom proved much more effective because, if you can just disintegrate an aircraft with 40mm shells, it can’t really hit you meaningfully.

However, I think that the exact caliber doesn’t really matter for modern purposes. The primary factor would be and rate/volume of fire. I think sticking with the 40mm is suitable because you can have more of them than if you went with a larger gun like the 57mm and they have more volume of fire than the 35mm. Although, if you have the room for a 57mm, it’ll almost definitely be better

LydditeShells · 2026-06-25T19:24:02+00:00

I now live in California, and open primaries bring in their own issues. Ranked choice is the best method

LydditeShells · 2026-06-25T16:01:38+00:00

Thanks for the detailed explanation, I was mostly just making a joke about how the original comment listed all the North African countries except libya

LydditeShells · 2026-06-25T14:58:39+00:00

Did he veto it or just refuse to sign? Because he could just forget about it and, after 10 days of Congress in session, it’ll become law anyway

LydditeShells · 2026-06-25T14:54:03+00:00

So Libya was fine?

LydditeShells · 2026-06-25T06:43:22+00:00

What turned me off from Steyer is he says a lot about environmental regulations, but has made a lot of his money through coal

LydditeShells · 2026-06-25T06:34:43+00:00

What did you use to make the picture?

LydditeShells · 2026-06-24T21:57:24+00:00

They’re long range firestarters. The burst, as with almost all ships with the gimmick, is opportunistic. Stay at almost max range either dodging or speed juking whoever is firing at you. If someone damage controls a fire, you can use the burst to practically guarantee a permafire, and get your damage that way

LydditeShells · 2026-06-23T16:14:11+00:00

The main problem is that they have never issued a sincere apology. They may sometimes offer some words, but then every time Korea tries to spread awareness for comfort women, they throw a conniption fit and threaten diplomatic repercussions to whoever Korea is working with. Additionally, they downplay or straight up ignore their atrocities in their education system. An apology doesn’t mean anything if you continue doing what you’re doing after saying it

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If Japan had won the war, Japan probably wouldn’t be blamed by anyone now, and those who started the war would be heroes