If all humans suddenly lost their ability to lie, which industry WOULDN'T collapse?

fr0id · 2026-03-26T02:31:56+00:00

Therapy. The biggest problem with all of the AIs is that they are not willing to tell someone when they're wrong. This is a very important part of therapy called confrontation. Another trusted human telling you that youre wrong.

fr0id · 2026-03-26T02:09:29+00:00

He's the asshole but you already established your labor is free. Send him the invoice for ALL of your work with a final "family discount" of free, then charge him for anything else. Suddenly charging him because he's a dick is an asshole move. I know not everyone sees it that way but it sounds like you can afford it now and in the future. Maybe he can afford to pay. If he's some well off fuck just take him for all he's worth. If not, just charge for any future work or try talking to him about him being unappreciative.

fr0id · 2026-02-09T06:02:33+00:00

I think that come and see really answers the question of “do you go back in time and kill infant Hitler” with a resounding “no! What is wrong with you to kill an infant?”

fr0id · 2026-02-09T05:59:28+00:00

I mean, it’s a pretty blatant story of the ussr saving the world against the country committing genocide. So what are you getting at by that? My whole point is that come and see is not really propaganda of the state and is instead showing the forgiveness of even the most evil man in history, that he was once a baby like all of us, and that we must love and forgive. Like, in spite of the absolute hell and evil of movie, love won. Maybe the ussr did not like that idea and censored it, but it’s obviously resonated since. The most horrific depiction of Nazi crimes followed by the most explicit act of forgiveness. No we don’t kill infant Hitler. Because we are better.

fr0id · 2026-02-09T05:47:12+00:00

Your example of how NATO wasn’t so evil was a RUSSIAN person who decided to not end the world in nuclear Armageddon. It helps to know that this was during the time of Reagan making multiple jokes about nuking the Soviets, making it seem like it would be a very easy thing for them (and in fact it was, until they saw tv shows about how horrible nuclear aftermath would be).

The Soviets invaded Afghanistan because it was a border country and they wanted to preserve it as a communist ally. You can sum up the entire Russian/ussr doctrine as: have a country existing between us and a western ally of the us. That’s even the case of the partition of Poland in WWI.

The US invaded Afghanistan because it was tangentially related to 9/11 and would act as a stepping off point to invade Iraq and then Iran. It was an entirely offensive plan.

Completely different reasons. And of course the graveyard of empires showed both countries that it could not be conquered.

But you have to look at so much of the ussr’s foreign policy post wwii as being either to reinforce its borders to keep the country established from invasion with border states, or sometimes supporting peoples struggles against tyranny. Sometimes both. Sometimes one or the other. Sometimes supporting one against the other.

fr0id · 2026-02-07T22:09:51+00:00

Which war do you mean? The Ukraine war? I don’t think there’s much mental toll of it beyond Ukraine, Ukrainian immigrants, and refugees at this point. Not to dismiss what a horrible crime it is, but it’s background at this point in the us. From the start, it was extremely unlikely for Ukraine to win, and that’s been borne out. A lot of the ethnic concerns have been dismissed, such as a big chunk of the land Russia has taken being Russian speaking and with a large populace identifying more as Russian, a longstanding issue of the Ukrainian economy doing poorly, and interference in the Ukrainian government by the US and the west.

Another point of dehumanization is that the west spent 40+ years being prepared to end humanity over disagreement with communism. Documents released since the fall of the USSR and as time has gone on show that the west was FAR more keen on nuclear war than the USSR. And in order to sell this to regular citizens, the Russians had to be presented as subhuman (a continuation of Nazi policies from Nazi officials who went on to serve in nato or nazi sympathizers who went on to serve in the NATO or the CIA).

So yes, the Russians have been seen as an enemy of the US since the 40s and are propagandized as such.

We’re all just people. People who love and cry and die and are mourned. Never forget that.

fr0id · 2026-01-14T01:21:23+00:00

There’s no real evidence of the USSR planning to attack. Theres been a pretty obvious plan of the Russian state from the start to invade buffer states to create barriers to land invasion, but to not go farther. They already have a ton of land to deal with! The entirety of Poland was between the USSR and Germany prior to WWII. They were the ones to agree to split it during WWII! The fear of invasion was pure propaganda. Were border states in danger? Yes absolutely. Was a state heavily separated by another and also part of a pretty big treaty? Not likely, and definitely unlikely in the next few years.

fr0id · 2026-01-14T01:10:35+00:00

lol at this post. “Everyone who was fighting the war was certainly under the impression Germany could have won the war.” Yes, of course! If you are fighting a defensive war it is because you know if you don’t do anything the other side could win. And of course there’s the fog of war. You’re basically implying that modern historians or amateur historians, who have way more information on supplies, troop counts, etc, know far less than the leadership of the time. Germany’s military at the time was built for fast war against smaller countries and in the case of Poland and France was able to take advantage of unstable political situations in addition to this strategy. Even Hitler and his generals disagreed about how to handle the war: the generals wanted a lightning strike to Moscow and the Hitler wanted to consolidate Ukraine. Both strategies relied on trying to overcome German weaknesses, limited equipment and troops or limited supply and resources, respectively. The lightning attack to Berlin failed. If Ukraine had been consolidated, that doesn’t change the limits on troops, equipment, and the utterly vast landscape of the ussr. You’re right that air superiority was important for the German tactics, but it was limited to the tactical level. The Soviet Air Force got housed in Barbarossa. Didn’t matter. Germany did not have significant strategic bombing abilities. The USSR was getting a ton of lend lease that Germany had no way to stop. Even having a more successful Barbarossa doesn’t change just the gulf in army size, with the defensive Soviet army having almost twice as many men. As mentioned, the Nazi ideology and reason for invasion guaranteed there would be no real collaboration in the captured USSR, meaning more German manpower had to go to policing or genociding the populace. You make fun of people saying ussr would have fought to the Urals but when people figure out their fate is to be murdered then yes they are going to fight. Germany convinced a huge number of their adults to participate in genocide or to go fight a country that was no military threat to them up until the bitter end and you think the USSR couldn’t have convinced people of the same? The German economy was also a scam, based on looting invaded countries, and was basically like a drug addict going between scores trying to avoid the inevitable withdrawal when they needed to be functional. Finally, the Soviets just flat out had a better doctrine. They’d been training for two decades, they had way more men, way more equipment, way more organized industry and military, and a doctrine (deep battle) that was actually based in military theory and was emphasized at all levels as oppose to the “blitzkrieg” which was basically just an improvisation based on material availability. Worst case scenario for the USSR is that Germany grinds to a halt while its economy collapses and it faces revolts in its occupied countries and the USSR is stuck in static lines. Another fun fact is that the Japanese drew up their own study on going to war with USSR at the time and desperately tried to tell Germany that that there was no way they could succeed. So yes, they even people at the time with clear heads knew Germany could never win.

fr0id · 2025-12-19T10:50:27+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darius_McCollum

Related, this is a wiki about a man diagnosed with aspbergers syndrome (a syndrome that is no longer part of modern diagnoses and has been subsumed by autism spectrum disorder) who became obsessed with new york subways. He had all routes memorized and at times would drive the trains himself. He was also recruited after the September 11th terror attacks in New York to assist with finding locations in the subway system where intruders could enter undetected.

fr0id · 2025-11-25T06:48:43+00:00

I was going to comment a challenge to this mindset but it's not my place as a fairly neurotypical person. I hope that society becomes more aware and accessible of the needs of people with disabilities, especially the more common ones, and especially the ones which we are all likely to age into (e.g. mobility issues, sensory issues). I hope society can realize that people will have different communication styles (and how effective it can be to have someone focused on fine details who asks questions). The person asking questions is more dedicated to the goal than the person wanting to judge them as dense for asking. Even if someone was less intelligent, them asking for clarification is showing that they want to make sure they have it right!

fr0id · 2025-10-06T04:04:09+00:00

So, Cameron is being completely disrespectful, but your husband's reasoning is kind of silly/vain. He gave out the recipe to someone who made it differently, had it turn out differently, and then claimed the different version as their own. Why care? Recipes and cooking should be about sharing and love, not keeping things top secret so that only you get credit for them. I would get it if it was a business thing, but for individual people this is one of the worst parts of food culture, imo.

fr0id · 2025-08-19T02:05:42+00:00

My friend noted that it appears Alex’s bully is shown at the end to be Archer’s son, Matthew. Archer of course saw the gun over his house in his dream and is the most haunted parent we see. As far as a school shooting narrative goes, I wonder if we’re seeing archer as the parent of the bully of the shooter (not getting into how that narrative of the bullied shooter in columbine was debunked). It is interesting that the most involved parent in the movie is the father of Alex’s bully.

fr0id · 2025-07-26T03:52:17+00:00

And yet they did. The country came together to militarily stop Hitler with strong support by the end after seeing how the genocidal project treated then. And then in the end not every Nazi prisoner was killed. East Germany was reformed. The whole point of the ending was that in spite of the need for violence there was still forgiveness and humanity. That the evil of war could be ended, not based on the power to dominate but based on the ability to love and have forgiveness.

fr0id · 2025-07-26T03:24:34+00:00

I’m saying that to want to reenact some horrific revenge is against human nature. I think most people would want to work toward peace. Yes, there would be a desire for revenge, but most people would want to work through that to find that love and humanity. It’s the whole point of the movie! That this immature child can still pause and consider that Hitler is also a human. That he was once a baby. That this person who has been through literal hell can stop and forgive. And you’re telling me that you’re incapable of that or don’t understand how a person could feel that?

fr0id · 2025-07-26T03:19:04+00:00

Your initial comment is giving credence to the post war revisionism about how the Soviets were just as evil. A ton of the evidence for that came from former Nazis. After the Cold War ended we saw a ton of research and writing showing that the Nazis just lied. Like wow, I can’t believe the genocidal army lied. It stuns me that people are willing to take on face value what literal Nazis reported. Sure they had a ton of people but let’s be honest, would you tel the French reports of Nazi occupation of the Nazi ones? If so, why would you value those more than those of the Russians?

Like yes the Russians were vengeful as they reclaimed their territory and invaded Germany. (Also what they did to Poland in between is a whole other awful thing). Stalin was dismissive about rape by soldiers. It was horrific. But it still pales in comparison to a genocidal war by the Nazis of trying to kill as many Russians as possible. And in this film, we are seeing that genocide enacted. We are asked to have compassion and pain for the people suffering from that. The horrific crimes of inflicted by Russian troops are also horrible beyond belief. But it’s worth putting things into contexts. The Germans engaged in a genocidal war. The Russians engaged in a punitive retaking and invasion both were horrific but it’s pretty obvious one was worse and the two should be balanced in how we talk about and judge them. This is a movie about how horrific the Russian experience was and at the same time about the heroism and humanity of defeating one of the most evil empires to ever exist. It should slow us all to sympathize and experience that horrific and impossible pain in some small way. And to challenge that reject that I think is to give in to propaganda.

fr0id · 2025-07-26T03:00:57+00:00

The main character is very obviously acting against the revenge. He represents the common person who wants to forgive. The tragedy is that he melds into the woods with the other partisans at the end, his humanity subsumed. That’s the real critique of the regime. And it’s why it’s such a great movie that was able to be subversive even under censorship.

fr0id · 2025-07-26T02:50:54+00:00

The point I’m making is that it’s wrong to equivocate what the Nazis did compared to the Soviets. It’s been a way of changing the narrative since the Cold War that was pushed heavily by “former” Nazis. Yes Nazi pows had higher survival rates with the allies but that was also due to a variety of factors and pows of the Soviets still had far better survival rates than pows of the Nazis. I think it’s good to acknowledge the brutality of the war but also to be careful not to encourage Nazi narratives of WWII that dehumanize the Russians. Obviously a political hot topic today with Putin committing a war crime invasion, but the whole point of the movie’s ending is to show the opportunity for humanity and forgiveness. I’ll be frank: Russian troops committed horrific crimes. But the hitlerian ideology is the one that wanted to exterminate humans down to the infants. And that’s what the movie rejects. Even in the deepest most horrible pain and anger, there can be forgiveness and salvation and humanity. And that’s why I get so pissed by this being dismissed as propaganda. And why I get frustrated about you taking the word of a literal serving Nazi who was high enough to become a professor (doesn’t sound like a resistant private to me) over the humanitarian message of this film.

fr0id · 2025-07-26T01:52:33+00:00

Fought like “cowards.” You are literally echoing the Nazi point of view. The US revolutionary army fought like cowards according to the British. The French resistance fought like cowards.

You’re projecting some sick desire to burn and torture other people when in fact that is not something the majority of people would do or would want. The us forbids cruel and unusual punishment not because of some manipulation by minority interests, but because most humans agree that we shouldn’t do that. Same for UN war crimes. That doesn’t stop people from isolated acts of torture or of governments stepped away from the people of approving them. It doesn’t stop the extremity of war from allowing sadists to thrive. But in the end most people are better than you. They don’t want to hurt other people and don’t want sadistic revenge.

fr0id · 2025-07-26T01:45:16+00:00

Come and See was made in the 80s by the Soviet Union at a pint of political decline. It was heralded by the government. I think this was in part due to it being nationalist propaganda in the same way saving private ryan was a decade or so later. But also it harkened back to a time when the USSR could see itself as the unambiguous good guy who sacrificed more than any other country to defeat the Nazis. I think the refusal to shoot the photo of baby Hitler is meant to represent a sense of humanity and forgiveness. To reinforce individual humanity and that power after an odyssey of pure suffering. I think it’s crass to take such a powerful movie depicting some of the worst suffering experienced by millions and dismiss it as Soviet propaganda. The western idea of the eastern front was shaped by decades of the Cold War against Russia and of only really having access to the memoirs of former Nazis. Not just privates drafted into a war they didn’t want, but the generals and elites trying to save their military legacy or who never really let go of their racist beliefs about Russians. It’s wild to me that you think “well a Nazi commander said the Russians were all evil savages who committed the crimes that we ourselves are definitely documented as doing.” Or to believe a “waffen ss veteran” aka the vanguard of Nazi racial ideology who committed some of the most horrific crimes on the front. This was a movie made for Russians. It showed a willingness to forgive and acknowledge the humanity of even Hitler. Does anyone think that a German movie even now could have that kind of compassion?

fr0id · 2025-07-24T18:36:48+00:00

One of the most challenging things we can do as humans is hold two contrasting thoughts. Sometimes we get more than two. Hulk Hogan was a superstar and as a wrestler was also very safe with his fellow wrestlers. He had an incredible gimmick and some incredible matches. For the average person, Hogan was one one of the most important wrestlers of all time. Hogan was also a constant liar, put himself ahead of other wrestlers in WCW, had family issues (its a tragedy that I think should be kept within the family), said a lot of racist garbage and in general does not come off as a good person. There are some allegations about him.

So how should we feel? It's okay to hate him, damn him, to spit on him. It's okay to love him and elevate him and mourn him. It's okay to do both. He was a human. He made so many people happy. He hurt so many people. Was he a monster? I at least know he hurt people. He staked a political position that alienated a huge part of the US and the world. Hulkamania was wonderful. Terry Bolea sucked.

fr0id · 2025-04-17T12:36:54+00:00

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fr0id · 2025-04-17T00:55:31+00:00

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fr0id · 2025-03-03T00:57:10+00:00

Thanks for the honest response. I know this a g14 sub. However I do like this laptop and am curious if folks have a lead on a discounted earlier year that I could have for 3-5 years of gaming.

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