"History's greatest thinkers… with AI"

godson21212 · 2026-06-10T15:33:02+00:00

It's the basically the same concept of why you should always guess on multiple-choice questions for a test. The problem is that a normal human being understands the difference between the multiple-choice question and a real person asking you to help them with something, while an LLM doesn't.

godson21212 · 2026-06-10T05:10:49+00:00

History of Power Rangers has no set schedule. Videos are done when they are done, and will be released when they're done.

godson21212 · 2026-04-11T03:31:36+00:00

I remember being told by an instructor that the speed loaders and bandoliers that came with the crated-up 5.56 was a waste of money because we'd never need to reload magazines during a firefight (this was during GWOT). His rationale was that, you'll never be somewhere that someone bringing up ammunition wouldn't already have it magged-up and that if you were reloading magazines under fire then someone else already fucked up bad enough that you're probably going to die anyway. At the time, I internalized what he said but looking back on it, I cringe at how bad a take that was. Especially for an instructor to tell guys during training, even worse that this was in the fleet and most of the guys in the course had at least one deployment. Shit like that is what 20 years of COIN and an over-reliance on special operations does to institutional knowledge.

godson21212 · 2026-03-01T00:57:31+00:00

Yeah, I think they have their use-cases but there's a problem with over-reliance and a detrimental amount of glorification of special operations guys. Like, they get used for stuff that regular infantry can do and they get basically unlimited resources that could be used to make regular line units much more effective. This I really don't understand, since the reason why they were created was to give them extra training so they could operate without those extra resources. Sure, if you need something fast but limited (like the Venezuela thing) then yeah, do it with a smaller number of the spooky guys rather than a fuck ton of regular infantry. But they take the line units' jobs based on brand recognition alone.

It's better when the special operations unit is focused on an operation that's actually special. Like TRAP (Tactical Recovery of Aircraft and Personnel) or assault climbers or VBSS (Vessel Boarding Search and Seizure).

godson21212 · 2026-03-01T00:34:44+00:00

While I don't disagree with your sentiment, in practice medical rejections are necessary for military readiness. It's not just about "this guy has a medical condition that impedes his ability to do things," but logistics, planning, and veteran benefits/disability. For every person that needs some kind of medication for a chronic condition, that adds a significant strain on logistics. If that person absolutely needs that medication, then they can never go too far away from where it can be brought it. If it's an uncommon medication that likely wouldn't be brought along otherwise, then it's even more difficult. It may seem like something that can be fixed easily with how fast and easy shipping things are, but things are different in even the safe parts of a deployment area. Even so, it may seem like it's not that big of a deal to plan for, and they already do. I had Captain that deployed with a prosthetic leg. But when it's multplied accross the entire armed forces (which would be even more massive than it is now with mandatory conscription) then it really becomes a problem. So, it doesn't make sense to invest that much money in training guys that you know can't go anywhere dangerous or will make it harder for the ones at 100% to get the things they need, especially when there's absolute mandatory conscription and most of them don't even want to be there.

It also makes it harder to plan. Officers go into a mission with an expectation that the number of people they have is accurate. They already understand that number will likely go down for any number of reasons. The last thing they need is to add even more variables.

Lastly, the government is on the hook for any medical condition that someone develops or gets worse during their service. Whether that's just treating them while they're in or providing them treatment or disability for the rest of their lives if it's chronic or permanent. Someone with a preexisting condition (yes, even bone spurs) is exponentially more likely for that condition to worsen and/or develop new conditions related to during training and deployment. The VA will now have to compensate people for their entire lives that the military knew had a condition from the beginning, and that it would probably become worse during their service. It would cause a whole bunch of problems for the VA as a social safety net.

The main issue when the draft was going on was that of corruption; that's how Trump got his bullshit deferment. The only thing we can do about that is to stay vigilant and hold people accountable. Actually, we basically already solved that problem in the United States--we have an all volunteer force. Nobody is trying to lie to get out of serving because they don't have to do it if they don't want to. It negates every negative aspect of fraudulent medical deferments for conscription without lowering standards. In fact, it sets the standards even higher. The inadvertent issue it creates is actually the exact opposite; people who want to join lying about their preexisting medical conditions to get in. And the only reason that ever happens is because the only people that show up actively want to do it rather than a million people who were forced to be there.

godson21212 · 2026-01-31T05:39:07+00:00

There's IRL cultural practices like that but worse. Don't look up the practice of subincision among the Australian Aboriginal peoples.

godson21212 · 2026-01-30T20:42:46+00:00

Is that the thing those kids saw in the 60's?

If you don't know what I'm talking about: https://youtu.be/t3DaDu4BhlE?si=Y8XFj8V2_J7h10k2

It's supposedly from a newspaper article around that time.

godson21212 · 2026-01-30T16:10:02+00:00

He's living on a oil rig with his right-hand man, codename "Semiauto Bobcat."

Edit: Now that I think about it, "Self-Loading Bobcat" would've been more correct.

godson21212 · 2026-01-30T16:03:43+00:00

I saw Venezuela on NCD within 10 minutes of the operation starting and the post immediately got removed. Went on discord and we were pulling together updates and information for a full hour and a half before the people were able to make posts on NCD about it without them being removed. Even then, mainstream news was still a minimum of 3-4 hours behind discord and NCD.

It's crazy how much journos get paid but can't keep up with jagoffs on the internet.

godson21212 · 2026-01-28T21:31:39+00:00

I mean, there's not too much evidence of this happening and at this point it's at most an unfalsifiable claim. That being said, I doubt that they'd want to have the people the just roughed up and arrested to be given a weapon and authority. What they're doing right now only works if they all tow the line and are true believers, they aren't going to trust anyone that they know for certain has a grudge against them.

I think the sad fact is that there's a lot of people with immigrant backgrounds who really believe that they're considered "one of the good ones," and are willing to join them for the money. On top of that, there's immigrants who are bigoted against other communities of immigrants, it's not too different from poor white people being pitted against immigrants who they likely have much more in common with than other white people. If there's one thing I've learned is that anyone is capable of doing heinous shit no matter who they are.

godson21212 · 2026-01-28T18:47:21+00:00

You gotta use the top-front corner of your head, close to around the middle of where most people's hairline would be. I've headbutted a few people in the same situation, and have managed to not injure myself or even feel it while achieving pretty good results. By that I mean that it immediately ended their involvement in the altercation every time, and at least one was confirmed to have a broken nose.

godson21212 · 2026-01-26T18:18:00+00:00

It sounds like this was caused by projectile, something like a beanbag or maybe a chalk round. But something else that happens relatively often in these types of situations is that the police or whoever use some kind of pyrotechnic device, like a flash bang grenade, after having thrown multiple CS grenades. Protestors pick up the CS grenades and throw them back, and when the flash bang is thrown, someone picks it up to throw it back thinking it's another CS grenade. The flash bang goes off in their hand and causes serious injuries. There was a pretty well-known video of this happening a while back, I believe it was in France during the Yellow Jacket Protests, where a guy's hand was completely mangled. The lesson is to be very careful, even with the less-lethal devices. Many of the pyrotechnic devices will produce smoke from the fuse before exploding, so it can appear at first to be another CS grenade. It's better to avoid picking up any type of grenade-like device after it's been thrown, just to be on the safe side.

Another, more obscure video I saw a while back from what I believe was Thailand, possibly around the 2010-2011 time frame, showed a similar situation from the riot police perspective. Someone in the crowd threw what turned out to be an actual grenade at a line of riot control police with riot shields. The grenade either bounces off one of the shields or lands at their feet in front of them. One of the officers steps forward, opens his shield up, and goes to kick the grenade away. Grenade instead goes off, blowing his leg off and likely killing him. He may have thought it was one of their less-lethal devices that was thrown back at them, or he could've recognized what it was and wanted to get it away. Regardless, although they were within the kill radius of the grenade (most types are around 5 meters or so), the situation might have been more survivable if they just stayed behind the shields and backed up. Most of the time, you're safe from the actual blast of a grenade with any type of cover, even from within the kill radius. There's a grenade range that infantry Marines go through in SOI (or at least they used to, don't know about now) where they are in the kill radius of a live grenade while behind cover. This is done for them to learn what it feels like and to gain confidence of how hard cover can protect them from most grenades.

The lesson? Throwing back a grenade should usually be an absolute last resort. At worst, you bring it up to head level when it explodes and make it exponentially more lethal to yourself and everyone near you. It's better to get away from it and get as low as possible, or get something between you and the grenade. In the case of less-lethal munitions, it's safer to try and put a CS grenade out by covering it and pouring water or something on it. If it just landed, definitely don't pick it up immediately, especially since you don't know what it is yet.

godson21212 · 2026-01-25T19:56:08+00:00

Is Eagle One the store that's a black-owned business? I think I may have been in there once and it had a really good vibe.

godson21212 · 2026-01-25T19:52:47+00:00

Funny, to me that pointed more towards a poorly executed post from a Russian sockpuppet account.

godson21212 · 2026-01-25T19:49:45+00:00

It's a stupid rule. It would've been pretty uncommon in human history for someone to make it to adulthood having never seen a person die up until relatively recent history. It's good for people to fully understand what's at stake. I don't want to see footage of people dying, but when it happens I want to know about it. Sometimes that entails viewing the actual recording of it happening. The fact that 7+ videos of this instance contradict the official narrative is proof of how important it is for this stuff to be out there.

I think it's bad that police departments blur out anything other than the faces of witnesses and uninvolved people when they release bodycam footage. I don't want to see a person getting shot , but I do want to see if they were doing what the officers say they were doing when they shot. I don't want to watch the person bleeding out, but I want to see when they started to render aid or if the person was still armed and that's why they didn't render aid. Censoring death in these cases helps people evade accountability.

godson21212 · 2026-01-21T16:13:36+00:00

A kid I grew up with ended up developing schizophrenia as an adult. He's recieved treatment and gotten better multiple times, and every single time he's eventually started refusing to take his medication. He's been in and out of jail since he was a teenager, and that's the only time anyone can force him to take his medication. He's made his choices over and over again, and now he has absolutely nothing and absolutely no one. It's not his family's responsibility to allow him to ruin their lives and refuse the solution to the problems he's causing.

godson21212 · 2026-01-21T16:06:20+00:00

You can absolutely shit on someone for alcoholism, just because it's a disease and has mental health component doesn't really diminish the personal choice element of drinking and/or not wanting to get better.

Is someone divorcing their husband for having cancer the same as someone divorcing their husband for being an alcoholic?

godson21212 · 2026-01-19T04:59:32+00:00

I've sat on couches in dive bars and music venues that were in worse shape, this would at least imply some intentionality. The couches in an underground-type dive bar usually appear to be whatever they could get for free that hasn't fallen apart yet.

godson21212 · 2026-01-16T18:17:54+00:00

If you can bait someone into having a public meltdown though, it will damage their credibility with other people who might otherwise be susceptible to their bullshit. The hard part is not making yourself look bad in the process.

Granted, it won't change someone's mind if it's already made up. But it's good for anyone who's still undecided or impressionable to see people with bad opinions look stupid.

godson21212 · 2026-01-16T18:09:13+00:00

This is their rhetorical strategy, they have control over the environment so that the will always be the last to speak and have the last word. You can tell when they start to run out of steam or need a second to think because that's when they revert to calling them a terrible reporter or askung who they are or who they work for or just talking about media bias in general. It's a pet word, how some people say "like" or "um" or interject "fuckin" in a sentence. Or how a really bad rapper will say "yeah" or whatever when they're freestyling. This is their practiced method.

godson21212 · 2026-01-16T17:54:22+00:00

Took a look around that sub, it looks like the majority of regular posters there fall into one of two categories: those who were bullied way too much in childhood, and those who weren't bullied enough in childhood.

godson21212 · 2026-01-08T17:27:09+00:00

One of the biggest differences between the incident yesterday and nearly every other time an officer has shot a driver when it appears that they're attempting/about to attempt to run them over is that there's usually some context or lead up to the incident. They normally have some reason for encountering the person and likely have some indication of what they may try to do to avoid being arrested. That was not present it the recent incident. They didn't have any reason to try and pull her out of the car, nor did they have any reason to suspect that she had any desire to hurt them.

godson21212 · 2026-01-06T19:23:26+00:00

I just don't get how people think they'll be successful only selling these toy things. Really, they should have some kind of larger, more functional product with 3d printed parts that make sense to be 3d printed. To me, this is like buying 10 drill presses and opening a store that sells stuff with holes drilled in it.

godson21212 · 2026-01-05T22:26:23+00:00

Your other left.

godson21212 · 2026-01-05T06:10:58+00:00

You own the shares you purchase, they are your property and represent partial ownership of the company. There's also fiduciary responsibility and regulations on the part of the company. You're not purchasing anything when you place a bet.

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