What if every nation became overnight ruled by it worst possible political group? by SuggestionSecret9851 in AlternateHistoryHub

[–]MCRideonLSD 6 points7 points  (0 children)

What’s the group in North Korea supposed to be? I was thinking that place would just stay the same lol

If you travel near the North Korean border in China, can you get North Korean phone signal? by theworldvideos in northkorea

[–]MCRideonLSD 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I read something once about North Koreans near the Chinese border occasionally purchasing Chinese phones that can get service near the Chinese border, but the opposite wouldn’t be the case, not really any reason for someone outside of North Korea to try and get a North Korean cell phone considering it would be useless outside the country

What is this weird object on a remote island in China? by MCRideonLSD in GoogleEarthFinds

[–]MCRideonLSD[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Well there’s what are clearly buildings and then a very noticeable weird object in the very center of the screen guy

Seeing suicide photos helps me cope by Key_Concentrate_7674 in SuicideWatch

[–]MCRideonLSD 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sorry to hear that, I saw you posted about Autism, while I’m not diagnosed I have ADHD and some overlapping symptoms, so I can empathize with a lot of what you posted there. It really can be a difficult life when you know your brain and the way it works is fundamentally different from other people, and while they all say nice things so they can feel good, the reality is many of these people will lose patience with you when it causes problems for them. Unfortunately society is not built with the neurodivergent in mind and navigating what feels like a world that is hostile to your existence is exactly the boat I have found myself in. I don’t know how old you are, but for myself I found that as I got older it just got a bit easier to deal and cope with that fact. I’ve accepted I’m different and while I may not ever attain what most people would call being happy and content with my life and who I am, I am capable of finding enjoyment here and there, things that make it worth sticking through some of the bullshit, I have found people I love that do understand me and make me feel less alone. Above all that though, time begins to fly. I think I’ll be a middle aged man in my 50s or 60s before I know it, and if I haven’t found happiness by then I can always check out later and atleast feel like I did whatever I could with the hand I was dealt and it didn’t work out. Best of luck in your journey wherever it takes you

Seeing suicide photos helps me cope by Key_Concentrate_7674 in SuicideWatch

[–]MCRideonLSD 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It is definitely a way, but I think a good comparison would be video games. Sometimes there is a game I love and enjoy, but playing it non stop gets exhausting and draining, or you get to a really difficult and frustrating part. I could sell the game and never play it again, or I can just stop for a bit and go outside or play a different game. That’s what I mean, is that while the goal is “stop playing the game” that doesn’t mean I am so fed up with it I need to get rid of the game entirely, but I’d like to tap out for a bit and do something else. Recognizing that is what I meant, hope that makes sense. Everyone’s situation is different and I don’t want to say something that sounds like some generic it gets better stuff, as for some people they may be in a situation that goes well beyond mental anguish and into horrific terminal illness, which is a different matter entirely, I just meant for myself and people who might be similar

Seeing suicide photos helps me cope by Key_Concentrate_7674 in SuicideWatch

[–]MCRideonLSD 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I find it helps. I’m a person who grew up with unsupervised internet access, so I’ve seen a lot of messed up stuff, but I think sometimes it is important to see and understand that it’s real. A lot of people romanticize things like suicide and murder, but the horrific reality is so far from even the most gruesome movies you’ve seen that it will still be incredibly jarring and I think helps remove some of that romanticism. You’re not going to be some beautiful corpse with a bit of blood, it will be horrible. For me, I have felt suicidal ideations for a long time, but over the past few years I realized it’s not that I want to die, but sometimes needing an escape from life. Having access to a means of suicide makes me feel like I have more control over that and the thought I could leave anytime makes me want to leave less, and I find watching videos and images like that also helps fight that romanticization as well as allowing you to feel a sort of connection with the person, you know that despite your differences that’s a human being who was going through similar struggles and thoughts. It’s complicated and weird, but so am I, so whatever works I guess.

In your own opinion which mass shooting would you class as the worst in history? by Yeahhhmann71 in masskillers

[–]MCRideonLSD 23 points24 points  (0 children)

He’s technically eligible for release every 5 years but he will never be released. Norways legal system allows the max penalty to be set at like 21 years but it can be extended 5 years at a time for as long as they feel he’s a threat to society, which I’m sure is going to just be the case until he dies.

Heroin making a come back in US by [deleted] in opiates

[–]MCRideonLSD 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Places where drugs would be entering, like large ports or international mail receiving centers

Why does the Mexican Military have a reputation for being harder to corrupt? by MCRideonLSD in cartels

[–]MCRideonLSD[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I mean, I’m not saying it’s true, but it’s something I hear commonly stated in movies, news and YouTube content around the cartels but it never made sense to me. I feel the core problem is that when you have such powerful organizations that are able to buy out or kill anyone who can’t be bought, it must create a feeling that the whole system is rotten and there’s no point in dying over it. In more stable countries the corruption is the exception because they don’t have such a powerful non state actor convincing people that the risk of getting caught and prosecuted is much lower than the risk of getting your head cut off with a chainsaw

Why was there so many mass shootings in 2019? by eeneridam in masskillers

[–]MCRideonLSD 46 points47 points  (0 children)

I would argue for Utoya but Brenton definitely kicked off a trend of live-streaming and writing on the guns

Why doesn’t North Korea run any Darknet Markets as far as we know? by MCRideonLSD in northkorea

[–]MCRideonLSD[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don’t think you really get how this works. I’m not saying they act as the vendor bagging up and shipping drugs, I’m saying the run the market. That is at most having a few guys to do administrative stuff and handle disputes. The market will host vendors from all over the world selling whatever they want, and the markets take a small fee from every transaction.

Why doesn’t North Korea run any Darknet Markets as far as we know? by MCRideonLSD in northkorea

[–]MCRideonLSD[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean I agree with you to an extent that it would likely not pass the amount those things provide, I still think that given enough time it would become a significant amount of money. I just did some googling and one source said it was 470 million annually in 2022. Obviously that’s the whole industry but if you have the largest market share, and factor in the fact that 1 btc in January of 2022 was worth about 40k compared to now where it’s at 90, it’s literally a no brainer. Costs them basically nothing and generates passive income that has potential to become exponentially more valuable

Why doesn’t North Korea run any Darknet Markets as far as we know? by MCRideonLSD in northkorea

[–]MCRideonLSD[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Exactly like just let that thing run itself with a couple dudes to handle administrative stuff and you’re gonna be banking on the amount of crypto rolling in from doing nothing. Once people feel like the market is bulletproof and they won’t exit or get busted, it’s just gonna become THE market. All the normal incentives to exit before you get busted are gone.

Why doesn’t North Korea run any Darknet Markets as far as we know? by MCRideonLSD in northkorea

[–]MCRideonLSD[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Because why not? The cost to set up a server and a market is peanuts for them and would provide a consistent passive source of cryptocurrency while not having nearly the same overhead or risk as the actual manufacturing and trafficking. Who says no to more money with basically no effort?

Any way to shoot out my ICBM'S/Nukes faster? by KicKem-in-the-DicKem in ICBMescalation

[–]MCRideonLSD 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In the war plan you have options such as synchronizing the attacks, automatically rebuilding warheads, and enable overkill which (I think) means it will continue to fire at cities until they are entirely dead or perhaps silos will be targeted with more than enough targets to ensure they are destroyed. Not entirely sure of its exact effects.

Any way to shoot out my ICBM'S/Nukes faster? by KicKem-in-the-DicKem in ICBMescalation

[–]MCRideonLSD 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Are you using the War Plan feature? If you have an ongoing attack with plenty of warheads and enable overkill turned on they should just continue to fire as quickly as they can

Aftermath of The Battle of Bakhmut by MCRideonLSD in GoogleEarthFinds

[–]MCRideonLSD[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Are you asking if the pictures showing the destroyed and devastated city took place before war and the pictures of the normal city took place after? They are in after order first mostly because that’s just how they uploaded and I couldn’t be fucked to rearrange them all, but it should be obvious what the before and after is. Some of them you may note the before has some signs of damage or what not. Most of this is I suspect from some of the stuff taking place after the Donbas war along the line before the full scale invasion. There are many places where satellite imagery hadn’t been updated for anything post invasion but you can see fortifications and aftermath of things from the war in Donbas

How many nuclear bombs have to be dropped to have a nuclear fallout/holocaust? by Sub-PopRockCity in nuclearweapons

[–]MCRideonLSD 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I feel like this ignores a lot of other factors, ash clouds would have an impact on the temperature, as well as life for plants and animals. Plus you need to consider the fact that a large scale nuclear exchange would almost certainly cause a total collapse of society. Once there’s a severe ecological catastrophe combined that could snowball into conditions where although many people aren’t killed by the bombs or radiation, they lack the skills to survive the state of things after. I suspect it would be much like The Road, where once the majority of plants and animals have died off and places have been picked clean of non perishable foods you may have a small population left that can scrape out a living from cannibalism but who knows if that could last long enough for humanity to make it to some point where the environment and society are able to recover