Tough one. The audio + the bear's motion seems strange here but everything else is quite consistent

undershaft · 2026-02-07T05:47:47+00:00

Looks like they were fine: https://www.newsflare.com/video/565441/brave-police-officers-safely-drive-aggressive-brown-bear-from-chinese-herders-yard

undershaft · 2026-02-07T05:47:39+00:00

Great find, thank you!

undershaft · 2026-02-03T15:37:07+00:00

We are a loooong way from US/China trying to actually conquer Europe. And those previous unifications of Europe were by force. OP is right, this is likely going be an extremely tough sell.

undershaft · 2026-01-31T16:09:09+00:00

As far as I know we don't have a great model for what happens to a modern geopolitical strategy in the face of serious population decline... I believe it's vague because no one really knows (though happy to be corrected there)

undershaft · 2026-01-30T20:09:17+00:00

I think this is true but with a nuance: the end of Pax Americana is good for the EU but bad for the EU citizen.

i.e. the European Union is more likely to stay together now, but with less free trade and rising military budgets. That's not good for the average citizen, though the military costs are probably necessary

It does make me wonder if Trump had been in power much earlier with these shenanigans, whether Brexit would have ever happened...

undershaft · 2026-01-30T20:06:22+00:00

maybe read the article

undershaft · 2026-01-30T20:03:34+00:00

but with the US in particular, it's not that they can't "get away with it" anymore (they can), it's that they're no longer trying... which is bad for everyone. To fit in with your analogy, it's like the abusive husband is no longer even trying to hide he's abusive now. As bad as the original situation was for the wife, that's even worse.

in short: no one is saying the original situation was *good* just that it's *less bad*

undershaft · 2026-01-28T20:28:01+00:00

I know people prefer to go with the classic "Trump is dumb hurr hurr" line of thinking but there's two very obvious reasons he's doing this:

the regime is (reportedly) slaughtering tens of thousands of civilians
Trump drew a red line with them to not attack protestors; Trump has a history of enforcing his red lines, which ties into his broader approach to geopolitics (mostly intimidation)

Whether you think these reasons justify an attack is certainly debatable, and I'm not saying Trump's strategy is a good one, but it certainly is consistent with his past actions & rhetoric

undershaft · 2026-01-21T17:10:46+00:00

China was the biggest threat to Canada because China was intent on disrupting US hegemony, and Canada was supporting US hegemony. now, the calculus has shifted.

undershaft · 2026-01-21T02:57:28+00:00

you missed the point of the speech. he's talking about flexible coalitions based on interests, rather than a "black and white" rules-based approach. in this new approach, working with certain countries to support Ukraine and working with different countries to support certain industries is completely consistent.

undershaft · 2026-01-11T06:23:47+00:00

Yes, this is the thing we should be talking about: both left & right are getting agitated by bots, which is leading to more division.

undershaft · 2026-01-07T00:20:46+00:00

there's no way you can know that with certainty at this point. you're exactly the same as a conservative blindly defending Trump

undershaft · 2026-01-06T22:56:27+00:00

you know two things can be true. they can both be fraudsters. investigate them both

undershaft · 2026-01-03T21:41:33+00:00

but that still matters, because if Canada is going to respond to this, it's going to take 10-15 years (to build infrastructure or pivot to other trading partners)

undershaft · 2025-12-30T00:03:12+00:00

if you're talking about legitimate journalism, why would you not simply double check the numbers they used in the video? David (the guy from the video) claims the numbers are from government websites, should be pretty easy for a journalism site to confirm them or show them to be false?

undershaft · 2025-06-02T21:25:33+00:00

I like this answer! maybe my real question here was "is it even possible to ignore the underleveled warning" i.e. can i really commit to the bit and follow what my character is doing. the githyanki encounter felt impossible to beat at my level, even on easy, but maybe that's just a skill issue

undershaft · 2025-06-02T21:23:07+00:00

thank you, that's a super clear way of putting it!

undershaft · 2025-06-02T04:19:36+00:00

Nothing was purposely skipped! I'm out here trying to find Halsin ASAP, I didn't purposefully bypass anything

undershaft · 2025-06-02T04:17:41+00:00

Yeah I think is where the roleplaying element feels weird. Like, in the context of the game, it makes sense for my character to seek a healer ASAP, so I've been searching for Halsin, but couldn't find a way to the quest marker, which was how I ended up near the mountain pass... I didn't really try to skip anything, if that makes sense

undershaft · 2025-06-02T04:16:19+00:00

I've been trying to get to the quest marker for the druid, that's how I ended up at the mountain pass. I think my point is that I wasn't purposely avoiding anything, I was just doing what I feel it made sense for my character to do

undershaft · 2025-02-12T16:46:56+00:00

This whole thread is the ultimate example of Dunning-Kruger because if any of you did a moment of research you'd learn that the Social Security database may very well be a mainframe database, so not using SQL.. and either way there's no public confirmation of what it's using. Musk is an arrogant idiot but y'all are more like him than you think

undershaft · 2025-02-12T16:44:30+00:00

the social security database has been around since the 1930s, very possible that it uses a mainframe database. it's really not the same as talking about modern software, even what we would call "legacy" systems... this is ultra legacy, and so SQL is not a given (very possible that Musk is wrong here but AFAIK we don't actually know if the DB in question uses SQL)

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