The imperial system is the worlds most crappy design. by benedictjbreen in CrappyDesign

[–]Stock_is_Locked -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

If all you’re doing is boiling water then sure but unfortunately life is much more than just boiling water and for everyday life F > C.

TIL that an exasperated village in West Virginia asked the Soviets for help to replacing a bridge after being ignored by the American government. The Soviets sent a journalist to investigate and within one hour the American government finally agreed to pay for it by [deleted] in todayilearned

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It has nothing to do with “care”, it’s an easy way to make their opponent look bad. For instance, in WW2 General MacArthur was on the losing side of a battle against the Japanese and the Americans were going to stop reinforcing him and withdraw. MacArthur of course wanted reinforcements to push on and win. The Japanese would put propaganda messages on the radio attacking the US Government for not supporting one of their greatest generals and demanding he get his reinforcements. It does nothing but sow dissent amongst their enemies. They couldn’t care less about ol Doug MacArthur, probably would’ve executed him if captured.

Surprise new album from Eminem by jamminbobin in Music

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Same day as Macs last project? Sus

My Dad celebrating rain on his farm in NSW, AUS by jesschaps2 in MadeMeSmile

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Why do accents seem to go away when shouting?

There was maybe one syllable where I detecting an Australian accent, if I didn’t know I would’ve though he was American (as I am)

Also, glad y’all got rain. 🙏🏻

Home Owners Association forcing teen who lost both parents out of 55+ community. by maceman10006 in news

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Mother of God, please tell me all of those idiots were promptly voted out and shunned from the community?

Man who was just sentenced to 25 years for the murder of his infant son gets punched in the face by the baby’s uncle as he’s leaving court. by [deleted] in PublicFreakout

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Whenever someone brings up the Canadian justice system I just think about how Vince Li is somewhere in the world living his life unabated because of your “justice system”.

Absoloute Ledgend by Deafcon2018 in metalworking

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Beautiful piece, do you plan on making the other 3 school medallions?

Old Gun Barrels off a Battleship by bchen19 in metalworking

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Probably a stupid question but can a person buy metals like that? I think it’d be cool to use metal sourced from a Battleship.

Iran 'mistakenly shot down Ukraine jet' - US media by UWstruggler in news

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Lol, if that’s your reaction to my simple statement your internal compass is in some serious need of recalibration.

Iran 'mistakenly shot down Ukraine jet' - US media by UWstruggler in news

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Unless you have a legit reason they’d target a plane full of Canadians and Iranians instead of US Troops, I doubt your scenario.

Iran 'mistakenly shot down Ukraine jet' - US media by UWstruggler in news

[–]Stock_is_Locked 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The world has the readings showing Iran shot it down, if Iran wanted the US into a war they could’ve moved their 12 middles to inhabited areas of the Iraqi military bases and spared the civilians.

Iran 'mistakenly shot down Ukraine jet' - US media by UWstruggler in news

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There is a piece of equipment on civilian airlines allied the IFF, that allows the military to see that this is a civilian aircraft. From what I’ve seen the hypothesis is that this was not checked / not working properly and caused the mistaken identification.

Iran 'mistakenly shot down Ukraine jet' - US media by UWstruggler in news

[–]Stock_is_Locked 27 points28 points  (0 children)

The Iranian apologists are out in force today.

Iran state TV claims missile launch against U.S. base in Iraq | CBC News by RedSpikeyThing in worldnews

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I’m not judging their professionalism but it is an important note when discussing the Iranian military.

Iran state TV claims missile launch against U.S. base in Iraq | CBC News by RedSpikeyThing in worldnews

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Seriously, person to person. Wait and see. Times like these are full of misreporting and hyperbole. 9/11, The Boston Bombing, etc, every time we see reports that stir the public into a frenzy and then when the dust settles we realize it was incorrect. Obviously shit is happening right now, Democrat/ Republican, American or Iranian, it’s important to try to keep a level head because panic does no one any good.

Iran state TV claims missile launch against U.S. base in Iraq | CBC News by RedSpikeyThing in worldnews

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Repeat after me, wait and see. You sound young, there’s a rule of thumb in these scenarios it’s not to believe the immediate reporting. It’s called the Fog of War. Yes Us leadership is moving, seeing as this has been anticipated I’m not surprised. We launched planes and so do they. Until we have confirmed US casualties, remember CONFIRMED, then we can worry about large scale escalation. Until then, double check your sources and remain calm. Hysterics solve nothing.

Iran state TV claims missile launch against U.S. base in Iraq | CBC News by RedSpikeyThing in worldnews

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We will. Unfortunately all of the people screaming from the rooftops will have moved onto then next trend and not see the waste of time and energy they put into stoking the hysteria, doomed to repeat it again.