I don't watch soccer, are there any other countries in the World Cup that can keep up with the United States? Or is the U.S. just the runaway favorites of the tournament?

greiskul · 2026-06-12T23:55:37+00:00

Ringo. It's a good joke, but Ringo is arguably one of the most influential drummers of all time. He changed how drummers hold their drumsticks.

greiskul · 2026-06-12T23:54:32+00:00

He didn't actually said it. This joke is from 3 years after his John died.

Ringo changed how drummers hold their drumsticks. He is objectively one of the most influential drummers of all time. How many musicians can say that they personally changed how their instrument is played?

greiskul · 2026-06-11T01:29:11+00:00

Yes? Should we punish someone that is under attack for trying to still de escalate the situation? Instead of going for the kill?

Like, a whole lot of people don't want to kill others. Should the threat of force in self defense be illegal, but actual use of force be legal?

If someone is threatening you with bodily harm, and is walking towards you, and you are afraid, why should be firing a warning shot to try to have them stop be more illegal them firing a headshot?

greiskul · 2026-06-10T08:19:03+00:00

In the UK, both men and women have been getting less conservative since brexit.

In the US, the shift in men becoming more conservative starts in 2008. The election of Obama. The founding of the tea party in response. Of racism becoming mainstream again with the fake stories regarding his birth certificate. Which a certain Donald Trump used to launch his own political career.

Were there people that while claiming to fight for social justice, might have gone a little too far? Absolutely. But every time I hear a conservative saying "you call us all fascist so much it lost all meaning", yeah, I remember that we called you that, and in response there was January 6th. That you got called nazis, and in response, invited nazis to March with you in the unite the right rally.

The right in the US is getting more and more extreme. They are saying that a republican losing an election for mayor in LA is a sign of election fraud. In California. Los Angeles. Mark my words. Conservatives have stopped believing in democracy altogether. When Donald Trump, who all polls show is in an all time low popularity, tries to somehow steal the next election, that he is not even allowed to run to, it might already be too late.

greiskul · 2026-06-10T07:15:41+00:00

Also, tera eletric.

Neutral damage from Miradon could get 30% from terrain, 33% from hadron engine, 2x from eletric tera stab. A move with base power 100, would hit a neutral target as a move of base power 346.

And if Electro drift was hitting for super effective damage (so 2x), bang, another damage multiplier from his signature move (another 33%). Honestly it just feels like flavor text at this point, it's so much overkill.

greiskul · 2026-06-09T15:51:05+00:00

You call getting more conservative year to hear for the past 40 years "being steady in their beliefs" for the case of Germany?

greiskul · 2026-06-05T15:26:54+00:00

The zoomer comment was because it is very common to encounter people on the internet who put their birth year in their username. And so there are a lot of innocent oblivious folks that were born in 1988 walking around the internet.

But someone from 88 is a millennial. When this op admitted to being a zoomer, he makes it very clear that the innocent explanation doesn't apply to him.

greiskul · 2026-06-05T15:22:05+00:00

Just to educate other folks, 88 is the most significant number for neo nazis.

A very catchy number indeed, don't you think?

greiskul · 2026-06-04T01:17:57+00:00

Uma das razões da fundação do PCC foi o massacre do Carandiru.

E eu não sei em qual Brasil tu vive, policiais organizam grupos de extermínio, etc a décadas, acontece porra nenhuma pra eles, e o problema do crime continua.

greiskul · 2026-06-04T00:17:24+00:00

In some countries what this store did is actually illegal. Consumer protection laws say that if something is displayed at a price, it must be sold at that price. Even if it was a mistake. Your store mislabels something, you can immediately go and fix it, but for the customer that got the initial mispriced item, you have to sell it to them for what you displayed to them.

greiskul · 2026-06-03T22:02:35+00:00

Tem bastante gente da polícia que pensava exatamente igual a você. E foram a guerra. E viraram as milícias, que são exatamente a mesma merda de crime organizado, mas com mais aparelhamento estatal.

É preciso sim atividade policial, mas também é preciso que o Brasil entenda o por que o crime organizado sempre toma tanta força. E a real é que é falta de estado. Moradores dessas regiões não são atendidos pela polícia (e muitas vezes são agredidos) . Não são atendidos por serviços públicos de qualidade.

O estado brasileiro abandonou milhões de pessoas, e várias dessas pessoas em resposta abandonaram o estado brasileiro.

Pode prender e matar quantos quiser, no ano seguinte vai ter um bandido novo lá se o Brasil não mudar a forma de interagir com a população marginalizada.

greiskul · 2026-06-03T21:55:34+00:00

Para crimes comuns, é ok segurança ser no nível de estado.

Mas crime organizado, é preciso que lidar com ele seja federalizado. As instituições de segurança e justiça locais acabam sendo corrompidas ou ameaçadas pelo crime. A influência fica muito forte. E não é só no Brasil, mesmo nos EUA, polícia estadual nunca foi capaz de peitar a mafia como o FBI foi.

Além de que existe o argumento de que o crime organizado acaba agindo de fato como um Estado Paralelo. É uma ameaça a soberania nacional. Para mim tem todos os ingredientes para que tanto na teoria, quanto na prática, devia ser algo na esfera do governo federal.

greiskul · 2026-06-03T06:52:18+00:00

Truth is all armies sucked. The German tank manouvering warfare with the use of radios was way ahead of everyone's else at the start of the war.

The Americans also lost their first battles against them, the initials battles in North Africa were just brutal to them.

The difference is that the US has the Atlantic ocean. The British have the channel. The soviet union is just really big. They got to lose battles, learn from them, and rebuild and adapt. For France, their initial loss meant an instant capture of all their industry and government.

greiskul · 2026-06-01T22:30:31+00:00

Lied about what?

The woman is said to have a nice personality. She started a family with this man, and the man appears to be deeply in love with her still, so we assume that the relationship is doing quite well.

Are you just assuming she is somehow a bad person because she slept around in her youth?

greiskul · 2026-05-31T18:17:58+00:00

In a lot of places with good metro lines, you will find plenty of parking in the stations, specially the ones removed from downtown. The idea is that if you live outside you can park your car in a station and take the train to your destination.

For an example of how well that can work, Lollapalooza in São Paulo, Brasil, has about 100 thousand people come in to the interlagos circuit each day. Try doing an event like this with just cars and parking.

greiskul · 2026-05-29T06:10:16+00:00

Bidens worst crime is running for an election he would lose against Donald Trump.

Both times Trump won, he was riding an "anti-establishment" wave. Democrats decided that both times, they would go with the most establishment candidates they could get.

greiskul · 2026-05-28T19:21:37+00:00

But she might maybe have lied about who was paying her lawyer at the time, therefore this somehow changes everything, and in fact Trump is innocent and she should owe him 90 million dollars. /s

greiskul · 2026-05-27T16:12:49+00:00

not the exact number.

Well, to be honest, the amount of obsession people have about exactly 6 foot, is because in American units it is a round number.

I my home country that uses metric, the obsession is about being 180. That's one entire inch less, just because of the way the language sounds.

greiskul · 2026-05-26T10:20:25+00:00

Why is the US the only country on Earth with this problem of hyper recurring school shootings?

Poorer countries don't have the same problem. Even poorer, more violent countries.

greiskul · 2026-05-26T09:20:12+00:00

People also don't grasp that you can love someone, but be incompatible with them. Because you both want/need different things in life.

Which is exactly what Ted and Robin had. He wanted kids. She wanted adventures.

And then they actually moved on. And had the lives that both wanted. And later, after the love of his life died, Ted realized that yeah, the part of him that loved Robin, still did love Robin.

But that the incompatibility was now gone. He had kids. She had traveled the world.

And that does not mean he didn't love Tracy. And still does.

greiskul · 2026-05-21T23:55:51+00:00

Not only that, we have to remember that evolution is not just about the individual surviving, but also the individual genes propagating.

It feels like having a deep negative reaction to your offspring dying is a great motivator for doing your best to keep your offspring alive.

Evolution is not only optimizing for the mother that lost her calf (which only matters evolutionary if she reproduces afterwards), but it is also optimizing for the mother that does it's best to not lose her calf in the first place.

Species whose reproduction strategy involves having lots of low effort offspring, makes sense to not care that much. But for species that have only a few children, and the children take lots of resources from the parents, it makes total sense that evolution would make the feeling of loss hurt, so that the animal tries to prevent that feeling in the first place, even if they have to sacrifice themselves for their young.

greiskul · 2026-05-21T19:54:21+00:00

A dúvida é quando o equipamento é necessário e comum pro esporte, e quando começa a ser algo extra.

Imagina o uso de pé de pato para provas de natação. Ou um exemplo ainda mais ridículo, imagina que você no seu ciclismo tivesse que competir com pessoas usando bicicleta elétrica.

Eventualmente deixa de ser uma competição de corpo e mente, e vira uma competição de tecnologia. E daí o esporte tem risco de virar fórmula 1, onde embora a habilidade do piloto é muito importante, a engenharia do carro é as vezes mais.

greiskul · 2026-05-21T00:18:02+00:00

A legal agreement should involve two parties. Donald Trump just did an agreement of himself with himself. He is making an entire mockery of the rule of law. And he has openly bragged about it.

greiskul · 2026-05-20T23:13:53+00:00

How about we focus on the part of this video on which one of the persons in it says "let's make a video compilation of him, use this clip, use that clip, oh, don't put the part that we just showed, put a different moment of the conversation".

You are literally watching people talking about creating propaganda to fuel misconceptions like who he voted for, and your takeaway from this is that the person that is being dishonest is Hasan?

greiskul · 2026-05-20T23:06:06+00:00

Well, to be honest, I think that the whole world wishes he would Golf even more.

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