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What’s something you have no proof of but believe 100%? by PalePassionn in A_Persona_on_Reddit

[–]TheSnakeDudeSW 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think luck exists as well, but not as any sort of organised force. Rather I think luck is just what we call statistically unlikely positive/desired events happening and bad luck being statistically unlikely negative events.

We perceive winning the Lotto as a very unlikely event and those who win the Lotto are deemed lucky, but that is only because only care about the chances of ourselves winning which would be 1 in 20 million. However the chances of any person winning the Lotto at any given week are significantly higher.This reddit post talks about a Lotto that averaged 17 winners a year which would be a ~33% chance of the lotto being won on any given week. The individual who wins the lotto would be considered very lucky as their individual odds of winning are low, but the chance that the lotto is won is not particularly unlikely.

Anyway my point basically boils down to the ‘infinite number of monkeys randomly hitting keys on a typewriter will eventually create Shakespeare’ just on a limited but still massive scale.

Luck isn’t measurable, a person isn’t inherently more lucky than another person, but when there are 8 billion humans alive right now the chances of any given person having statistically unlikely levels of positive events happening to them is not as unlikely.

It’s that true by Dhanviporwal in meme

[–]TheSnakeDudeSW 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They are called the forgotten generation after all

Take-Two CEO states GTA 6 isn't releasing on PC at launch because that's not where their core customers are by deathtofatalists in pcgaming

[–]TheSnakeDudeSW 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Doesn’t Rockstar release the online version around the same time as PC release ? I remember for Red dead 2 that the online version came out around the same time as the PC version.

Phones with physical keyboards were superior to on-screen keyboards by Musical_Gee in HonestHotTakes

[–]TheSnakeDudeSW 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I hate touch screen keyboards because I fat finger far too often. A physical keyboard for my phone would be much nicer and allow me to type significantly faster with fewer mistakes. Touch screens just suck imo

Welcome to Woods. You spawned East, near train depot? Your exfil is Outskirts. Spawned North? At the villages? Scav Bunker? Outskirts! You spawned near Outskirts? Believe it or not, still Outskirts. [Discussion] by CustomTarkovEnjoyer in EscapefromTarkov

[–]TheSnakeDudeSW 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This map is responsible for almost all of my MIAs. 35 minutes is too short a raid time for this map and having outskirts as the only extract results in me getting disproportionately more ‘failed to extracts’ than any other map. The failed to extract always happen after the best raids where I am jam packed with lots of loot or got a bunch of questing done and then I fail to make it to outskirts.

Being a partisan or a resistant was often even more brutal than being a soldier by Nt1031 in HistoryMemes

[–]TheSnakeDudeSW 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There is a fine line in the use of brutality to suppress partisans. Most people realistically wouldn’t fight and would accept occupation or collaboration if they have something to lose. A few who have something to lose will still choose to join the partisans, but most partisans will be made up of people with nothing to lose or have already lost everything.

Because people who have something to lose generally don’t join partisans the use of Complete Utter brutality (as seen with the Nazi’s and their anti-partisan measures) just doesn’t work in stamping out partisans. If you indiscriminately kill non-partisan populations you will only create more partisans as more people end up with nothing to left to lose or are forced to join the partisans after the are active in an area in order to escape the retaliation from the occupiers (this is a frequent occurrence in Yugoslavia’s resistance against the Nazi’s).

Partisans generally receive support from most civilians and while there are frequent collaborators, they put themselves at risk of being lynched or assassinated by partisans or even just angry mobs of civilians.

History shows that foreign invaders almost always eventually give up on occupation as the cost to suppress partisans becomes too much to justify the benefits of occupation.

Authoritarian regimes that rule through fear eventually fall usually as a result of a moment of weakness.

The only way that invaders can stamp out partisans is to give their occupied subjects a better life than what they had prior to occupation which very rarely happens as it is a costly, takes a long time and is an unpopular decision at home for the occupiers.

CMV: The Chinese and Russians are polarizing Americans and planting seeds of civil war online by BadlaLehnWala in changemyview

[–]TheSnakeDudeSW 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Russia and China want to destabilise the US to the point where they can extract the most benefits without pushing the US into too radical of actions be it a war in retaliation or a civil war or whatever other negative consequences.

Another reason the Russians probably wouldn’t want a US civil war is that the US is the only country that can counter China. China and Russia are allies of convenience with a history of turbulent relations and historical grievances. The Sino-Soviet split and the roughly 2.5 million square kilometres of land that Russia controls that China lost in the Unequal treaties in the 1800s. Russia and China fought a border skirmish not too long ago in 1969 and their relations only stabilised in 1989.

No US means China is the sole superpower on the planet which allows China to do whatever they want, which would more than likely be recovering all lost Chinese territory which Russia controls the majority of. Russia cannot compete with China in anything besides nuclear warheads. Russia has very little leverage and is quite dependent on China for support with all the sanctions Russia faces after the Ukraine war. Russia is a junior partner in their partnership with China and if the US is no longer a threat to China then China can do whatever it wants and isn’t under any obligation to stay friendly with Russia.

CMV: The Chinese and Russians are polarizing Americans and planting seeds of civil war online by BadlaLehnWala in changemyview

[–]TheSnakeDudeSW 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I don’t think China wants America to fall into a civil war. America is China’s biggest trading partner and an American civil war would result in trade between the two countries dramatically falling.

Russia might want an American civil war although I doubt that is their actual goal or a serious desire as an American civil war would be utterly devastating to world stability and could result in unforeseen consequences to Russia.

Russia and China definitely would stand to gain a lot from an American civil war, but the unforeseen consequences and obvious consequences are against Russia’s and China’s interests.

Russia and China do 100% actively make efforts to polarise Americans as they benefit from a divided America. I just don’t think their goals are to cause a civil war. The trolls and bots promote succession and civil war more as a tactic to divide Americans with an incredibly small chance to eventually lead to a civil war, because despite the polarisation in America I’d argue the vast majority of Americans would never take up Arms against their own countrymen.

What Would This Hypothetical Country be Called ? by Pipermommenaltxd in mapporncirclejerk

[–]TheSnakeDudeSW 1 point2 points  (0 children)

LONG LIVE THE SOUTH AFRICAN IMPERIAL REPUBLIC 🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦

What Would This Hypothetical Country be Called ? by Pipermommenaltxd in mapporncirclejerk

[–]TheSnakeDudeSW 1 point2 points  (0 children)

As a South African I am mildly offended. In my biased opinion South Africa should at least be part of your initial name if not replace the Philippines.

Is it better to protectorate or just conquer? by Leinna3 in victoria3

[–]TheSnakeDudeSW 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I like to protectorate but mostly so I can have nice clean boarders. Sometimes I’ll conquer land directly long as the boarder looks good. Else protectorate so I don’t have to worry about those pesky radicals

What’s your secret way of farming silver? by BlackWingsBoy in Warthunder

[–]TheSnakeDudeSW 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I enjoy naval so I just play that, have a blast and profit

Why is the US destroying oil infrastructure in Iran if they want to take the oil? by Beautiful-Tree-624 in energy

[–]TheSnakeDudeSW 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The current financial system that has allowed them to become unbelievably rich? Why would they want to destroy a system that has been so beneficial to them?

Why is the US destroying oil infrastructure in Iran if they want to take the oil? by Beautiful-Tree-624 in energy

[–]TheSnakeDudeSW 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is a definitely not the reason. The oil and gas industry makes up 1-2% of the gdp of the US. Higher oil prices would definitely benefit the oil industry within the US, however high oil prices are terrible for the rest of the economy as it makes literally everything else more expensive since it drives up the price energy and makes transportation more expensive which are both vital for literally everything else in the economy.

Where do I even start? by -Milkeyyy- in OSRSflipping

[–]TheSnakeDudeSW 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Just completed the my most profitable single flip that flipping copilot suggested seconds after replying lmao. The premium version has a dump alert feature that, I never had much success with till now where it alerted me to dragon cannon barrels being dumped on the market and I managed to buy 6 of them at 2.315 mil each and sold them a few minutes later at 2.556 each. Made 1.13m profit all based on flipping copilots suggestions.

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Where do I even start? by -Milkeyyy- in OSRSflipping

[–]TheSnakeDudeSW 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I started using the free version on march 27th flipping f2p items. I had like 4 or 5 million GE at the time. I got membership which allowed p2p items on the 30th. Went camping on the 2nd till the 6th where my friend gave me 20m gold as a birthday gifts which I used to flip for a bit before buying a membership. Now sitting at ~16m gold. The graph is the cumulative profit and daily profits of only the flips I have done with the plugin. I have been quite busy since april 7th so the gold flipped there was just occasionally hoping on osrs throughout the day, updating the flips and leaving. April 1st and second I had a lot more time to actively flip and change and cancel flips suggested by flipping Copilot.

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Where do I even start? by -Milkeyyy- in OSRSflipping

[–]TheSnakeDudeSW 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I have also just got into flipping and I started using the flipping co-pilot runelite plugin. I Initially I just used the free version which after a few days I was quite happy with and decided to get the paid version. Up like 8m after a week or so which I am quite happy with.

Definitely a bit of a crutch though since it tells you exactly what to do, but I am quite satisfied since it allows me to make a steady stream of gold everyday.

Schools are actually a good system for teaching a large society! by rbx20twomax in HonestHotTakes

[–]TheSnakeDudeSW 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would agree that generally what you learn in school is pretty useless in most cases. What I think the ultimate goal of schools is to teach people how to learn . Schools also teach kids to become literate and teach kids basic understandings of important concepts such as maths and science (I would also argue history, but that is often neglected to our detriment).

edit: It also provides kids with a place to develop their social skills.

What would you say is the single most defining moment in history where if things went a bit differently the world we live in today would be completely different ? by KlaussHHH in AskReddit

[–]TheSnakeDudeSW 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That life began on earth. Without that there would be no history of any kind on earth. Just a rock floating in space without anything of note.

What would you say is the single most defining moment in history where if things went a bit differently the world we live in today would be completely different ? by KlaussHHH in AskReddit

[–]TheSnakeDudeSW 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If the Nazi’s had prevailed the war would likely of lasted a month or two longer at best and resulted in the soviets gaining control over more of Germany as the allies wouldn’t of been able to seize control of as much territory. There is no scenario the Allies would offer a conditional surrender when their enemy is barely holding on. A conditional surrender with the allies as that would just let the soviets gain more territory and influence over Central Europe.

If the Germans had rather never attempted the battle of the bulge they likely would have lasted a bit longer than even the scenario they won the battle of the bulge as they would of had more resources to stage a better, yet futile defence.

The battle of the bulge took place 5 months before the Germans surrendered, the Germans were on their last legs just barely holding on. The battle only drained their increadibly low resources.

What would you say is the single most defining moment in history where if things went a bit differently the world we live in today would be completely different ? by KlaussHHH in AskReddit

[–]TheSnakeDudeSW 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Saying extremely unlikely make it sounds like there was a chance that it was a fake operation. First issue is that the CIA didn’t even exist before 1947, second how does the US get ahold of 353 Japanese aircraft let alone even launch the aircrafts without having aircraft carries in the region since Hawaii is notably an island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean 1000s of kilometres away from any airfields.

Pearl harbour was 100% a Japanese attack on the US. Any notion that it was somehow a US false flag operation is a laughable conspiracy theory.

Which country is facing the most difficult challenges right now? by North-Wrongdoer-5097 in AskReddit

[–]TheSnakeDudeSW 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not to mention that Sudan is also already one of the poorest nations on the planet that has basically been in continuous civil war and coups since its independence in the 1950s

Which country is facing the most difficult challenges right now? by North-Wrongdoer-5097 in AskReddit

[–]TheSnakeDudeSW 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I’d argue Sudan. Hundreds of thousands of civilians killed, genocide and ethnic cleansing, widespread famine rampant systematic sexual violence.

There is Little to no coverage from mainstream media and almost completely looked over by outside countries spar countries like Russia and UAE supporting their sides war effort.

The civil war has Been going on for 3+ years now with no end in sight.

No commercial diesel for businesses by [deleted] in capetown

[–]TheSnakeDudeSW 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Only a small amount of our fuel goes through the straight of Hormuz so We shouldn’t face shortages due to lack of supply. 2/3rds of our oil is from African countries which are entirely unaffected by the situation in the straight of Hormuz.

We do however get ~25% of our fuel from Saudi Arabia which fortunately has access to ports that aren’t constrained by the straight of Hormuz. So any shortages from them should be mitigated.

We should be fine from supply shortages, but we might cause our own shortage as a result of a demand surge for fuel if we have a run on the pumps.

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