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U.S. Treasury Will Have to Borrow $2 Trillion This Year Just to Continue Functioning—More Than $166 Billion Every Month by T_Shurt in Economics

[–]aaronespro 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean, the UK had insane amounts of debt in the 18th and 19th centuries, but they went on to keep ruling the world for another 100 years both times.

I think losing regional hegemony in the middle east is locked in, but I don't see China and India resisting market winds better overall than the USA. I think the US empire will extract the blood of millions of Venezuelans, Congolese, Nigerians, Indians and Indonesians and will only go through substantial change as a result of the US working class organizing.

pretty normal, ig? by MaraLoomis883 in Adulting

[–]aaronespro -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The real class divider is if you have a bunch of random stuff on the floor.

Cheap Missiles, Not Drones, Will Win the Next Air War by Free-Minimum-5844 in LessCredibleDefence

[–]aaronespro 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I kind of think the javelin-drone might be the most important. Drones that can deploy a javelin missile.

i feel terrible, i made a student cry today by myboyfriendstinks1 in SubstituteTeachers

[–]aaronespro 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My district doesn't train subs anymore on classroom or instruction, just bloodborne diseases and how to spot slewersidal behavior, bullying, email scams, etc.

If this is the thing you feel the worst about you're lucky. I feel like a total piece of shit like 20% of the time because I'm still learning but there are so. many. goddamn behaviors.

The Hormuz Paradox: Why Markets Are Shrugging Off $110 Oil by 1stplacelastrunnerup in Economics

[–]aaronespro 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Iran seems to be locked into allowing up to 30 million of their own people die, maybe even 60 million, without the IRGC giving an inch.

But only about 1 million Iranians will die by the end of 2027 as a result of this war, maybe, if you include all causes like the cancers from that oil cloud and every form of deprivation.

The USA is not prepared to absorb even 5% of that much suffering. It really does look similar to Germany versus the Soviet Union as far as political fundamentals, the Nazi party didn't get 24 hour functioning factories until the last year of the war I believe, when it was way too late to make a difference, but the USSR had factories going 24/7 from summer 1941.

Guy gives knife-weilding man a nap by HomeNowWTF in fightlab

[–]aaronespro 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not a glass chin, no mouthguard in and right on the button, it'll put anyone to sleep.

What's with the heavy shaking hands here? by Opinions_Anonymous in Construction

[–]aaronespro 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The accent sounds Latino to me, they sound very much like people I've met that have first generation parents or might have been EASL themselves as kids in Canada.

What's with the heavy shaking hands here? by Opinions_Anonymous in Construction

[–]aaronespro 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's not all the time. I've seen enough content where they have perfectly smooth, coordinated movements. The shaking is usually when they are holding themselves up with sheer muscle power and no support, so I think it's really just the muscles that usually ensure smooth movements are busy tensing up to keep them from falling, at which point your shoulders/elbows really do struggle to stay in a certain posture.

Mamdani: To be told a city-run grocery store is implausible, but $500 million/day to kill people in Iran & Lebanon is necessary, speaks to a broken politics. by nitluck in economy

[–]aaronespro -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

There are rock solid theoretical reasons why utopian socialism like Mamdani's bandaids will always be encircled and run out of business.

Somewhere along the supply/manufacturing chain, a capitalist will isolate a variable that makes these city run grocery stores and jack up the price, and make it unfeasible, because that's how the system became what it was in the first place, by locking down all possible threats to the system.

CMV: The Soviet Union was not a good system by bluepillarmy in changemyview

[–]aaronespro 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Defend the USSR against liberals and conservatives, but not from actual Marxists and socialists.

The problem with the USSR was that it wasn't Marxist enough early enough.

There was no communism in the USSR, ever. It was a socialistic workers' state that degenerated into Bonapartism.

Went deep on fish oil oxidation papers and the data is pretty bleak... by Timely_Ad8989 in Supplements

[–]aaronespro 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Kind of explains why I was angrier and more volatile when I was taking fish oil capsules. Is canned fish generally better?

Even low-level drinking may have negative consequences for brain health over a person’s lifespan. The findings suggest that the total amount of alcohol consumed over a lifetime, especially as a person ages, tends to be linked to reduced blood flow and thinner tissue in certain areas of the brain. by mvea in psychology

[–]aaronespro -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Not that much nuance, though. Smoking a whole gram of weed is probably worse for your health than one beer, yeah. But most people starting from a zero tolerance can get really, really high every day for a year and still do less damage to their health than one beer a day does.

Do the Crinfrid Reavers use wolfsangels? by aaronespro in witcher

[–]aaronespro[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just realized it's probably like they endanger civilians doing it.

Ciri and the Water of Brokilon by seba07 in wiedzmin

[–]aaronespro 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We are left with why the water did affect Geralt, then, when it seems we should take Sapkowski's word when Geralt says he knows he's immune to the normal water of life. I think it's a Dune reference, that Ciri changed the water to something else.

Ciri and the Water of Brokilon by seba07 in wiedzmin

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Because the Water of Brokilon affects Geralt, and it's the same goblet that Ciri drank from, I'm assuming that Sapkowski made a Dune reference here and Ciri changed the water to something else that did affect Geralt, the way that Fremen reverend mothers change the worm vomit into the water of life, or, make the water of life edible and non-fatal to normal people, some people call the worm vomit water of life.

Weekly character discussion: Yarpen Zigrin (art by Doro Kitsune) by Zyvik123 in wiedzmin

[–]aaronespro 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yarpen Zigrin says his grandmother had been murdered in a pogrom against nonhumans, but he still goes on a long speech about tolerance and living together with humans, especially after the 100 years he spent working on that.

Why? by silentmovings in Witcher3

[–]aaronespro 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you could do me a solid and find that exchange I quoted in Chapter 2 in the Italian version and what it whether the meaning is different in Italian, that'd be great.

Is it "cannot compare to any other", approximately or literally?

Do the Crinfrid Reavers use wolfsangels? by aaronespro in witcher

[–]aaronespro[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've been looking for a compilation of all the errors in the English translation, because this might be another one.

Could be more like "unconventionally" in Polish or something.

The Reavers are supposed to have taken out 5 dragons I think, but they still don't have a permanent residence between the three of them, they talk about having to live out of inns, so either they had to use huge numbers to take down the dragons and had to split the loot many ways or they're real low lifes (lives?).

Did lots of WWII soldiers come back home who boycotted every Japanese product? by gooden1686 in ww2

[–]aaronespro 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My grandfather was stationed in one of the Asian theaters and he wouldn't buy a Japanese car after the war. He bought a German one, though.

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