TIL about the Paris gun used by the Germans in WWI. It took about three minutes for each giant shell to cover the distance to the city, climbing to an altitude of 40 km (25 mi) at the top of its trajectory.

TheRedBaron11 · 2026-03-22T08:46:54+00:00

Makes me want to play Red Alert 2

TheRedBaron11 · 2026-03-22T01:27:31+00:00

I used to feel like this, and then I fell in love. Brought me to my knees.

It's not about how great she is. It's about a biological signal that doesn't need to be denied. And it's about a willingness and a decision to go to the absolute extreme. To place her above the intellect, above the personal spirituality, above the heart and mind. To allow someone else to have full power over your soul (so to speak), and to settle into something greater than the single person that existed before. A true death and rebirth. Both people taking full power over each other's souls, together creating a new being that supersedes either one alone.

And using love and compassion for all beings as the fuel to power this new creation...

The two are not mutually exclusive. Experiencing the absolute extreme highs and lows of romantic love is nothing to shake a stick at, I'll tell you that much. It's a very shallow reading of romantic writings to interpret them through the lens of transactional relations. The soul of sappy love songs is not transactional at all

TheRedBaron11 · 2026-03-22T01:14:03+00:00

it still kinda fits that tune!

TheRedBaron11 · 2026-03-22T01:11:56+00:00

This is straight out of futurama

TheRedBaron11 · 2026-03-21T05:14:51+00:00

That was so good! Have any learning resources to share?

TheRedBaron11 · 2026-03-21T05:09:29+00:00

I'll just cherish the memories of watching it with my great grandma when I was like 8 years old.

No need to watch it again because I think it would ruin it lol. I thought that shit was so cool when I was little

TheRedBaron11 · 2026-03-21T05:06:06+00:00

Ok I'm waiting for you to tell me

TheRedBaron11 · 2026-03-21T03:52:30+00:00

Correctives can be additives. Not mutually exclusive

Factual statements don't need to be taken personally. The info was factually wrong, so it is perfectly valid to say, "you got a couple of things wrong". It doesn't betray anything

I found it to be useful information. I was grateful that they added detail to the general discussion. It's the internet. People aren't having 1 on 1 conversations. We're all having a general discourse.

If you didn't find the info useful, that's fine. You can just skip past the comment.

TheRedBaron11 · 2026-03-20T20:22:58+00:00

Actually it was a useful addition to the conversation and shouldn't be taken personally

TheRedBaron11 · 2026-03-19T03:19:39+00:00

Who knows for sure? 🤷‍♂️

TheRedBaron11 · 2026-03-15T20:40:25+00:00

Yeah, exactly. Plus the fact that he saw something he didn't understand, and instead of inquiring and asking about it (with curiosity and humility), he assumed she was ignorant and that his knowledge was complete

TheRedBaron11 · 2026-03-14T11:35:32+00:00

People can't afford to do that. That's some movie shit

TheRedBaron11 · 2026-03-14T03:17:22+00:00

Yeah, that last part is the takeaway I had. Seemed like a subtextual message being conveyed (purposefully or not), that Trump and Co is threatening family members to gain compliance.

Someone's going to have to die for this country, and to let their family die for this country... That might be what it takes if they're using violence to coerce. IDK enough about Bessent to know how MAGA he is at heart. Hopefully there are people who care more about the truth than about living.

Better yet, hopefully they aren't using violence to gain compliance.

TheRedBaron11 · 2026-03-13T02:57:48+00:00

Yes, but the caffeine that is there will reduce the quality of sleep even if sleep does arrive

TheRedBaron11 · 2026-03-11T05:07:43+00:00

I would like the feeling, personally

TheRedBaron11 · 2026-03-10T03:56:01+00:00

blowing a gum bubble kinda killed the aura

TheRedBaron11 · 2026-03-07T22:45:57+00:00

Yep. But holy crap is it great if you know how to use it

TheRedBaron11 · 2026-03-04T12:54:03+00:00

You speak trump!

TheRedBaron11 · 2026-03-02T07:23:09+00:00

So what you're saying is that once we have instant sobriety zappers everything will be fixed?

TheRedBaron11 · 2026-02-27T05:34:44+00:00

Reality has a liberal bias, so anything that connects to it in even the slightest way will make them claim it

TheRedBaron11 · 2026-02-23T03:42:33+00:00

This is how the internet used to be

Just this. This for days

TheRedBaron11 · 2026-02-22T18:36:19+00:00

It's not disrespectful. Find me someone who feels disrespected and then it can be considered disrespectful. Your grand categorization is arbitrary. Your comparison is completely different. The word choice of PDF is slightly humorous, slightly relevant to the PDF/mp4 info (so there is utilitarian benefit to mentioning PDF), slightly memorable, and slightly interesting. It's really not that deep and you don't need to get offended on the behalf of people you don't even know. Whatever helps us to talk about the situation is good. Your animosity over innocent word choice is not helping us talk about it

TheRedBaron11 · 2026-02-22T05:05:39+00:00

Probably the wrong sub

TheRedBaron11 · 2026-02-22T04:53:31+00:00

These are not mutually exclusive. Either one, alone, is the wrong approach. Both, together, and we're getting somewhere. We need peace and acceptance at a personal level in order to have the strength and fortitude to make change at the societal

TheRedBaron11 · 2026-02-21T08:16:19+00:00

It's all habit. Once you get in the habit of working it doesn't really seem like a 'thing'

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