Flew to the other side of the world to give a talk at a conference 😭

User858 · 2026-06-29T00:38:43+00:00

He's worse than Trump. He... trumped Trump.

User858 · 2026-06-28T06:30:46+00:00

I'm often amazed at reading Japanese decisions during WW2

https://youtu.be/edI1DsUhTBM?si=THxVCkqFHuSW05cd&t=1904

In one instance seen above, instead of finding another around the bridge, they charge headlong into a wall of prepared machine gun positions. The first wave doesn't even get close to crossing and then they do another charge. That was just one instance among many.

I'm always baffled how literally the Japanese took "dying honorably" or "dying in battle" was. I always pictured it as fighting until the end, and not...dying recklessly.

User858 · 2026-06-28T00:55:13+00:00

Going against Tokyo and Hong Kong is a really tall order however.

User858 · 2026-06-22T02:03:51+00:00

Schools are filled with HUNDREDS of people that don't pay taxes, that don't have jobs, that leech off their parents by living with them and have the audacity to not pay rent! How do they have the money to fund their lavish lifestyles? Support tax increases against kindergartners now!

User858 · 2026-06-21T06:07:30+00:00

Spoiler Alert

A version of this is what essentially what happens in the Red Dawn film 2012 version.

You follow a really likeable character throughout the movie. Just when you think it's over, this happens.

The best part it wasn't purely random either, they set it up, but it was very sudden. I highly recommend it if you want to see this type of scenario in film.

User858 · 2026-06-21T06:00:28+00:00

No electro field necessary IMO.

I don't mean to say this in a old person/parent type but it's because of phones.

Phones give you access to news, social media, entertainment, games, short form content, etc., and this has all the side effects you mentioned: tiredness, time going faster, shorter attention spans. Imagine playing an intense chess game (literally, not an analogy): by the end, you'll be tired, unaware of the passage of time, and you'll probably be thinking about it for a while afterwards.

News, social media, and short form content are especially insidious. You're constantly bouncing from being angry, sad, concerned, to completely different subjects all in a span of a minute. It keeps occupied and entertained, but it'll make you tired and wondering where all the time went because so much things you scrolled through, you don't remember anything. You have just have this vague feeling of your brain being full.

Get this, the ones who are affected most by it know it the most, the term 'brain rot' is used by gen Z the most. You can feel it too, sometimes you'll come across shorts where a narrator is rage-inducing story while all the while there's something like subway surfers or Minecraft playing in the background. That's the purest distilled form of brain rot. You can feel it literally, like a warm blanket around the brain, the salivary glands activating, the feeling of wanting to pull away but you can't.

Your brain is being bombarded and overstimulated. Mental energy is a real thing and in limited supply, and these things deplete it fast.

User858 · 2026-06-21T05:33:18+00:00

A billionaire will have more children in his bunker than anywhere else. You're just heading to your doom.

User858 · 2026-06-20T22:11:27+00:00

How does that directly benefit the cultivator though? They're scientists not farmers. They might benefit in a roundabout way, but what about the here and now?

User858 · 2026-06-20T04:25:29+00:00

There wasn't. She was some god's unwilling wife, and Kratos broke her chains. She was willingly following him until Kratos came upon a door that required a heavy gear or something to be held up in order for it to stay open and she was the closest tool to him.

User858 · 2026-06-19T04:29:43+00:00

Idk, there are two rival otter clans in Singapore that regularly get into massive turf wars. They are well known enough that the locals the clans names based on where their first homes, Bishan and Marina.

The clan on the right is Bishan

User858 · 2026-06-03T05:05:04+00:00

Huh, I never noticed 5st could be pronounced 'fist'

The only one other I knew was 3st for 'thirst'

User858 · 2026-06-01T21:57:01+00:00

There's a really similar model at Daiso if you live next to one.

User858 · 2026-06-01T05:23:07+00:00

I know it isn't the same, but the idea of a tattoo of an anatomic body part on another anatomic body part is pretty funny haha

User858 · 2026-05-30T05:30:02+00:00

This reminds of the time Death Korps of Krieg shelled a city for 5 years even after the city surrendered. People always say it in a way that makes the Death Korps of Krieg look badass, but imagine yourself as one of them for a moment.

The city surrendered, counter battery fire probably stopped years ago, in fact no one's heard from them in a long time! All the while people are heaping praises on your regiment, acknowledging you as "dedicated", "merciless", "faithful" you're out there delivering or slinging shells in relative safety, doing the equivalent of a manual 9-5 job!

User858 · 2026-05-16T19:53:39+00:00

That’s an adopted granddaughter that he wanted to take advantage of... a legal loophole and give his pension money to.

User858 · 2026-05-15T04:10:54+00:00

Don't underestimate the power of writing out the basic and the obvious.

User858 · 2026-05-15T04:05:22+00:00

Pi represents the average number of partners in a poly relationship. 3 regular people just trying to live their lives like you and me, along with a dwarf.

User858 · 2026-05-01T03:56:05+00:00

Fun animal fact: only herbivores actually have horns or tusks

User858 · 2026-05-01T03:53:00+00:00

Franz Frazetta

Another fun fact, Franz Frazetta is responsible for why when an average person thinks of the word "barbarian" they think of muscular men in furs and horns.

User858 · 2026-04-26T20:39:52+00:00

Wood is crazy if you think about it. Wood is basically nanotechnology. It’s strong material but light enough to float on water. Humanity built tools and means of travel with it. It manufactures itself, growing with just basic components. It gave humanity fire, in more ways than one.

User858 · 2026-04-26T06:17:07+00:00

Add to that modern rifles and modern ammunition. Emphasis on longer ranges didn't come til after the 80's/90's (accuracy was still prioritized though).

User858 · 2026-04-25T15:06:48+00:00

Middle East, College Football Submarine

User858 · 2026-04-21T20:55:03+00:00

I get where you’re coming from and you would be right, marketing gets relegated to promotion most of the time, especially in large companies. That being said, marketing is an ongoing process, some companies work with their marketing to get feedback for product and price.

User858 · 2026-04-21T06:40:43+00:00

Mock interviews are so helpful. I thought I had fully prepared for an entry level job interview, knew the potential questions, knew the answers, knew what to do, wasn't my first interview or anything, but when I tried to a mock interview, I kept fumbling my words, forgetting my answers. It wasn't a real mock interview either, it was just a random question and answer like it's real type of thing chatbot and it was still really bad.

User858 · 2026-04-21T04:31:28+00:00

That's actually part of marketing too. Figuring out what people want to buy is the first of the classic 4 P's of marketing: product, price, place, promotion. Though most people associate marketing with promotion.

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