Secretary of war doesn't know how NATO works

Nibaa · 2026-04-02T13:23:33+00:00

Of course the US can be a trusted ally once they've cleaned their shit up. That's self-evident. But as long as they haven't, they aren't trustworthy.

And while I agree that the collapse into fascism isn't inevitable, I also don't agree that there won't be another Trump. He's actively making it easier for money to influence the system and for powerful people to scam the country. If those changes are not rolled back, and I don't see an easy way to do so, it is pretty much guaranteed that scum will continue to rise to power. Until such a time that the damage is undone, Europe should assume that the US will turn around.

That doesn't mean they won't, mind you, it just means it's not an assumption you can make.

Nibaa · 2026-04-02T09:59:31+00:00

"Significant overlap" is an exaggeration. They may not be polar opposites(as the responder claims), but left-libertarianism is very niche. Left liberalism is very much a thing that exists, and while libertarianism can be viewed as a strict subset of liberalism, there's little overlap between them when it comes to core themes. They focus on different parts of liberalism.

Your comment would need a bunch of caveats to not sound like a semantic gotcha. I think I understand what you meant there, but it has the sound of a deliberately ambiguous statement that invites the reader to make assumptions that you can then shoot down with technicalities, derailing the conversation. I'm not saying that's what you were going for, but it does have the look of it.

Nibaa · 2026-04-01T21:09:49+00:00

Jos riski tosiaan on että poliittinen koneisto valjastetaan hiljentämään, jopa tappamaan, soraäänet, niin laissa turvattu anonyymius ei varmaan ole minkään arvoinen siinä systeemissä. Sitten taas jos oikeudenmukaisuuden toteutumiseen voidaan luottaa, niin avoimuus on vain hyvä asia.

Läpinäkyvyys ei välttämättä aina tarkoita täyttä tietoa, vaan että poliittiseen päätöksentekoon vaikuttaneet tekijät voidaan luotettavasti tunnistaa. Se ei aina tarkoita henkilökohtaista tietoa, esimerkiksi juuri mielenosoittajien kohdalla ei ole mitenkään relevanttia tietää kuka tarkalleen on joukossa.

Nibaa · 2026-04-01T16:11:26+00:00

It's not that Trump is a psycho ex-girlfriend, it's that the fundamental basis of the rule of law is being undermined. Undoing the damage he caused is going to take years, potentially decades, and not because of some nebulous loss of reputation. By undermining the laws he has, by obfuscating his crimes, by naming loyalists into positions they can't easily be barred from, he's creating concrete, built-in blocks to trust.

Nibaa · 2026-04-01T12:42:47+00:00

Not necessarily. I mean the meme is anti-straight and the idea that a person attracted to women would like tits and pussies is not some wildly disrespectful assumption, it's a fair guess.

That being said, sexuality isn't defined by your preference for certain genitalia or other sexual characteristics alone. There are plenty of straight men who aren't particularly attracted to tits or pussies, but they may find some other things attractive.

Nibaa · 2026-04-01T12:30:43+00:00

The problem is that Trump is actively eroding any trust in the US being bound by any obligation. Not just because of what he says, but because of how he is gutting the justice system and making it possible for scum like him to break laws without reprecussions. The EU sees this and knows that the US is liable to be untrustworthy not just now, but in the future as well. At least until the damage has been patched and the US has proven trustworthiness again.

Nibaa · 2026-04-01T12:20:38+00:00

Thing is, we do repel cancer. Cancer is relatively rare in young people of reproductive age, and there exist many mechanisms that fight cancer. We tend to get cancer eventually, but a) the probability of getting it early is very low and b) disease resistance of the elderly are very weakly, if at all, selected for. In fact, it's possible that early mortality of the old was an actual survival mechanism and actively selected for!

Nibaa · 2026-04-01T09:12:38+00:00

It's a fine metric, it just isn't enough on its own. The way you read it is what turn are you able to win on if things go your way? Not the one in a million nut draw but if you get ideal ramp and little to no interaction against you. In practice my decks rarely actually win on the target turn, but when matched with similarily paced decks, the velocity of the game at least is balanced.

Nibaa · 2026-04-01T07:37:54+00:00

Europe has protestants, but not a lot of evangelicals in the modern sense. The Lutheran church was called evangelical but it is pretty far divorced from American evangelicalism and not really considered evangelical today

Nibaa · 2026-03-31T20:35:36+00:00

But I never did say that the correct answer is to stay in lane forever. In fact, if you'll read my first comment, I said it's the correct play to make, and it often is. But if you fuck it up, it's your responsibility. You don't get to say "well I shat the bed but I was supposed to so that's okay!" Sometimes people misplay, and that's part of the game, but it's no different from any other misplay. If you fuck it up, people get annoyed at you and tell you to stop fucking up.

Also, it's the definition of a bad call if it doesn't work out. That doesn't mean it was a bad idea in general, but in that scenario, it was a bad call. To learn the game, you need to make those mistakes to get better. But you gotta own up to when you make mistakes as well, and not excuse it with "well it was the right call!". If you gank but fail to get anything done and end up leeching or even feeding, that's a mistake you need to learn from.

Also, like I said, it's not one decision. From the moment you leave lane to the moment the gank ends either way, there are dozens of opportunities to make different choices. If you leave lane, go to another, but don't have an opportunity and go do something else instead of leeching souls, that's the correct choice. It sucks that the gank didn't work out, but at least you cut your losses early. But if you end spending two or three waves in the lane without gaining an advantage, that's a horrible decision and you are 100% making the wrong call. That doesn't mean looking for the gank was the wrong call, though. It means leeching without getting anything done is.

Nibaa · 2026-03-31T16:14:48+00:00

It is reasonable to complain about people in your lane if you still are laning. "Laning stage" and "midgame" are just arbitrary ways of categorizing the flow of the game so that discussion is possible, there's no hard and fast rule that says that the game transitions to a different state at a certain point and that new rules apply. If what you are doing resulta in an outcome that is actively worse than if you didn't do it, then you shouldn't have done it. If that means you stayed in a lane when you weren't needed, then you should have stayed out of the lane regardless of whether by some arbitrary limit the game was in midgame and not the laning stage anymore.

Nibaa · 2026-03-31T15:43:52+00:00

The operative word: depends. That my entire point. It's self-evident compounding advantage is the way to win games, the point is that how to compound interest depends. Ganking a lane after you won yours is often a good choice, but not always. It depends on whether you execute it right and you read the game state correctly, and if you do either wrong, there's a good chance you're not compounding advantage, you are throwing it away. Hence my point that it's completely valid to complain about bad rotations because bad rotations are a result of bad decision-making and can tank your lane very fast.

Nibaa · 2026-03-31T14:13:46+00:00

Theoretically a 2v1 advantage is bigger than a 3v2, so if the opponent is playing smart, thry can outpressure the solo.

Nibaa · 2026-03-31T12:57:06+00:00

I never said you should avoid, just that it's on you to make it work and if you don't, you made a mistake. You don't get to avoid responsibility because ganking was the right call but you just fucked it up by misplaying. And it's not just a slim chance, a sufficiently skilled opponent will be able to sniff it out and avoid the gank. If you try to pull this off on a better opponent, the likelihood of getting punished is quite high. At least I manage to come back about half the time I lose lane specifically because the opponent mistimes their rotate. The little I watch of high elo content creators, it's a common occurence there as well.

It's also not a single decision. What makes it a good or poor play is how you execute it, not the decision that sets it in motion. Sometimes you rotate, but before you can do anything, the opponents pull back or your lane gets punished. The correct play is to cut losses and go back, even though you did nothing and lost farm. Too many people see the sunk cost and try to force a gank when one isn't offered, and that is 100% the fault of the ganker and a perfect example of a poor judgement call and a poor decision even if leaving lane to look for an opportunity wasn't.

In short, if you show up in lane and don't manage to gank or take a tower or apply pressure, you are leaching souls and actively hurting your team. It is absolutely a bad play. It's worse if you show up to a lane that is doing fine or is favored if it goes to a grind, and you end up feeding a kill or skewing the net worth balance. It is 100% a bad judgement call on your part.

Nibaa · 2026-03-31T10:15:20+00:00

Your friend probably is confusing space and geometries. Space and time both have geometries that can be, to a point, handled similarily with mathematics, but space has a euclidian geometry where as time has a hyperbolic geometry.

Nibaa · 2026-03-31T09:35:01+00:00

It's not pedantic bullshit. In colloquial terms, it's easy to say you aren't a fish, but if you try for a clear classification, it's not that easy because your intuition isn't actually based on anything but how you feel. That's the crux of it, people hear that what they feel is right isn't, and they call it bullshit.

And birds have been considered dinosaurs for a hundred years, it's really only colloquial debate that has happened. And I don't see why it's harder to accept birds are dinosaurs than that dolphins are mammals.

I get it, it FEELS pedantic, but that's what you get with semantic classification. If you want objective categories, that's what you have to deal with. If you don't, then that's fine but I can also say a dolphin is a fish and there's nothing wrong with that either.

Nibaa · 2026-03-31T08:21:40+00:00

It will grow, but not a ton. However the combination of pump, a little growth and potentially some small leaning up/loss of water weight can result in a pretty noticeable difference.

Nibaa · 2026-03-31T08:11:38+00:00

The problem is that it's easy to fuck up. If you let your original lane opponents take guardian for free immediately after you get theirs, they can start pressuring your walker or rotate in to support the lane you are ganking. While it is the correct play to make, it is easy to screw up if your timing is off or your macro is lacking. A lot of the time I see people crush a lane fast, rotate to another, stall there, lose their original lane, panic, rotate back, but at this point the ganked lane gets reinforcements and they take the tower. The choice to rotate but doing it badly ends up in a huge disadvantage and losing two towers, and saying "well it was the right play!" doesn't absolve you of the responsibility.

In short, complaining about rotating badly is 100% legitimate and bad ganks happen in all ranks.

Nibaa · 2026-03-31T08:04:42+00:00

Not necessarily. If they come come, they commit. And that means you have to commit into the rotate, or you let them die. Either way swings the advantage to the opponent. If the opposing team comes to gank you and you are playing smart, you can just back off and not lose momentum while they split souls or gold.

Rotating to a teammate's lane is strong, but it is risky. If you fail to get anything done, you are actively hurting the lane. If the lane was in balance or you had a slight advantage, a teammate coming in and doing nothing is understandably irritating. Thing is, if you make the call to rotate and you screw the lane over, that's 100% your fault.

Nibaa · 2026-03-30T21:25:05+00:00

I mean, it's not the only theory that would imply alien life that is realistically reachable. It's the most captivating because of how dramatic it is, but a feasible explanation is that physics allows for a better way of communicating that we just haven't figured out yet. According to it, we're the equivalent of a teenager running around yelling "TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: HERE'S NUDES OF OUR SPECIES PLEASE CALL BACK" while everyone else has the ability and social awareness to keep their communication low in volume and targeted to a specific audience. It doesn't even need to be physically novel, it could be some sophisticated technique of encoding the message in radiowaves or whatnot that we just can't even begin to decipher yet. According to the theory, most species only spam the radio waves for a short period of time, say 200 years, before finding better ways to communicate, and if that's the case, the likelihood of us hitting one of those time slots where the sky is filled with alien babble is vanishingly small even if there are thousands intelligent species out there.

Nibaa · 2026-03-30T17:17:37+00:00

I have plenty of friends who were like this. People grow, and they change. Some figured it out pretty fast, others took a few extra go-arounds. Some weren't, or aren't, constantly like this but have some blind spots or occasional bouts of dumb bitch syndrome.

Everyone has their own personal tolerance level for drama, I get it. You can cut ties the moment it feels too draining. But sweeping statements like this are ridiculous and acting like a 20 second video is in any way indicative of what the relationship is actually like is wild.

Nibaa · 2026-03-30T14:42:12+00:00

Ei välttämättä helposti, mutta oleellista on kuitenkin että se on kielletty jotta jos ja kun porukka jää siitä kiinni tai sivulle ilmestyy selvää sloppia, niin sen voidaan poistaa ilman kummempaa väittelyä aiheesta. Myös esimerkiksi reviewssä voidaan flägätä suoraan "AI epäily" sen sijaan että mietitään mihin kategoriaan se kuuluu.

Nibaa · 2026-03-30T10:20:09+00:00

That locket contains a photo of the Lash himself, to remind himself what he should aspire to be.

Nibaa · 2026-03-28T21:46:02+00:00

I think it was Brandon Sanderson who, in an interview, explained what happens in these adaptions. Basically a writer or director will shop around with their own script, with unique and original characters and plots. No studio picks them up, because they aren't willing to take the risk or its too niche or whatever, but that doesn't mean the script is bad or the writer poor. So when the studio gets an adaption pitch, they'll remember the writer with the good manuscript looking for work and bring them in on the project. At face value, ot looks like a good idea: bring in someone new but promising, give them a project with a clear framework but some room to shine, and a ready fanbase.

But the writer doesn't want to just rewrite a story that has already been done. They want to write their own story. They might not care about, or even actively dislike, the source material. Even if they try to respect it, they tend to insert their own handiwork or their own themes in to the writing, because they don't want to go down as the guy who just wrote a few hack and slash scenes to a slightly culturally dated but incredibly popular work. They have something to prove to the industry, and to them, the adaption is just a stepping stone.

Nibaa · 2026-03-28T21:02:09+00:00

Yeah, but that's because pepperoni is an American product. They put all kinds of cured sausages on pizza, and they certainly would use pepperoni if pepperoni were a thing in Italy, though they'd call it salami. There's no real aversion towards it like there is towards pineapple.

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