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crackajack , 4 months ago to politics in Swalwell on Biden age: ‘I’ll take the guy who’s 81 over the guy who has 91 felony counts’

All this news is nada if Trump is still leading ahead. Or better yet, put him in prison.

crackajack , 4 months ago to Today I Learned in TIL the Apollo 11 astronauts had to go through immigration in Hawaii when they splashed down because they had left U.S. borders.

We already call satellites orbiting a planet "moon", as in Europa is a moon of Jupiter. Or Phobos is a moon of Mars. But right now when we say moon, it usually means our moon.

You're right that in the future we would have to use a generic term for all extraterrestrial objects once we start colonising space. Which is why I think in the future, "moon" will become the catch-all term for the non-Earth moon, while we will call our own as Luna instead.

crackajack , 4 months ago to Today I Learned in TIL the Apollo 11 astronauts had to go through immigration in Hawaii when they splashed down because they had left U.S. borders.

Humans already named objects within the solar system after Latin words and names. Earth would be called Terra, meaning "earth" or "land". Many sci-fi stories did this already lol. Luna is already reserved to Earth's Moon. The other "moons" in the solar system already have their names from Latin like Europa or Ganymede.

crackajack , 4 months ago to Today I Learned in TIL the Apollo 11 astronauts had to go through immigration in Hawaii when they splashed down because they had left U.S. borders.

I like how unnecessarily bureaucratic this is in terms of immigration.

crackajack , 4 months ago to Today I Learned in TIL the Apollo 11 astronauts had to go through immigration in Hawaii when they splashed down because they had left U.S. borders.

It might be called Luna.

crackajack , 4 months ago to RetroGaming in Nothing was off-limits for retro game ads

The early 00s was pretty mysoginistic.

I originally came from a conservative country, and yet there were plenty of ads for softcore porns in TVs and billboards in those days. Even as a child, I questioned why do they show such images in front of full view to everyone.

The thing is, such mysoginy was the norm without us even realising it. I remember reading an article of a woman reminiscing her college days in early 00s. There were pictures of college girls on pin up boards and they get graded on how beautiful they are. The author said no one thought bad about it but looking back, it was very degrading and also invading privacy. There was also the matter of the infamous wardrobe malfunction of Janet Jackson. She got all the public spotlight afterwards because she is a woman, but Justin Timberlake pretty much got away with it for free. JT also shamed Britney Spears about losing her virginity to him, instead of keeping his mouth shut, while Britney was branded as slut.

crackajack , 4 months ago to memes in Got any grapes?

Not to simp for the US military and dismiss the unnecessary lives lost, but I heard most people who join the military opt for non-combat support role. That way, they are physically and mentally safe but get the free education perk.

crackajack , 4 months ago to memes in Got any grapes?

Good, you called out the military and I think you're not the only one who did not fall for it. After all, the US military admit they are having recruitment crisis.

crackajack , 5 months ago to White People Twitter in Would you give your phone’s password to your boss?

I didn't even know there is lite version.

crackajack , 5 months ago to World News in Ukrainian foreign minister Kuleba to Western countries: "We offer you the best deal: you don't sacrifice your soldiers, give us weapons and money, and we will finish the job."

No country would want a part of them to secede. Majority of Eastern Ukrainians are still loyal to Ukraine-- the issue had been more about where to align until Putin exacerbated the tensions rather than easing them, especially after invading Crimea. Of course, no country would want a part of them to secede. Ukraine did not approve of this and things only escalated. The conflict in Eastern Ukraine was a civil, domestic matter but Kremlin made it an international one.

The UN did say there is no ethnic cleansing but Kremlin obviously worked behind the scenes to stoke tensions. The usual boogeyman of Azov battalion and Ukrainian far right only appeared in large groups in May 2015, long after 2014 Maidan revolution and after the Russian annexation of Crimea in early 2015.

Your own state Russian TV station videoed counting blank ballots as yes in the supposed referendum. Maybe you should get glasses old fart 🤡

Again, this is like Republic of Ireland invading the politically British territory of Northern Ireland and then invading England. Or Turkey invading the whole of Cyprus after already annexing the north. It's illegal and you know.

You know who else invaded other countries under trumped up justification to protect German minorities abroad? Why won't Russia invade Baltics then to protect Russian speakers? Russian nationalists are a strange lot.

crackajack , 5 months ago to World News in Ukrainian foreign minister Kuleba to Western countries: "We offer you the best deal: you don't sacrifice your soldiers, give us weapons and money, and we will finish the job."

As if the referendum in Eastern Ukraine wasn't totally done at gunpoint and there was no clear video evidence of counting ballots as yes, despite the ballot being blank.

Funny there is no desire by Russian-speaking Baltics to try to join Russia. It is though Kremlin knows exactly not to agitate NATO members. Putin meanwhile harangued Georgia and Ukraine because they're not NATO members.

Edit: Also, the UN themselves stated they found no evidence of genocide or discrimination on Russian-speakers in Ukraine in 2015.

crackajack , 5 months ago to World News in Ukrainian foreign minister Kuleba to Western countries: "We offer you the best deal: you don't sacrifice your soldiers, give us weapons and money, and we will finish the job."

Ukraine split amicably with Russia and the borders were agreed upon after the fall of Soviet Union. The same source that you linked for your last picture would have also shown survey that Russian-speaking Ukrainians also do not wish their country to be split despite the disagreements.

But Putin exacerbated the division for his own end (same as how he stoked tensions in Georgia). That's like Republic of Ireland stoking tensions in Northern Ireland to get back the north. Or, Turkey doing the same to take over the entirety of Cyprus after already taking over the northern part of the island. All of those would violate international sovereignty of a nation under the UN Charter, which Russia have practically done in the case of Ukraine.

Russian MO is so easy to call out. They copy the playbook from another fascist claiming ethnic Germans abroad were being oppressed to justify invasion. Even though there was no evidence.

crackajack , 5 months ago to World News in Ukrainian foreign minister Kuleba to Western countries: "We offer you the best deal: you don't sacrifice your soldiers, give us weapons and money, and we will finish the job."

Tell me how exactly Russia benefits from the prolonged war with amounting financial cost and casualties that future generations of Russians will pay?

Russia is experiencing demographic crisis before the war, and many men either fled or died, and the country have become beholden to China, Iran and North Korea. And Russia has only issued partial mobilisation, but imagine if the entire country then mobilised more for total war just to try to beat another country that is 1/10th the size and couldn't do so for two years.

Ukraine mobilised for total war already and they're willing to die for a bigger goal and for their homeland. Are you yourself willing to be complicit to your country's decline for handful of rubles that is depreciating in value over time?

crackajack , 5 months ago to Technology in X appears to be juicing MrBeast’s views to woo the YouTuber to the platform, pushing video upload into users’ feeds as an unlabeled ad

Mr Beast uses the revenue he got from YouTube views and donates them. Which he then videos and create more revenue. Not a bad business model if you ask me. He wasn't even rich to begin with. His assets and wealth all started from YouTube.

crackajack , 5 months ago to Technology in X appears to be juicing MrBeast’s views to woo the YouTuber to the platform, pushing video upload into users’ feeds as an unlabeled ad

I wonder how well connected and rich Elon is to insulate him from consequences. Many people who have done as idiotic mistakes as he did have gone bankrupt or have been shunned already.