pimento64

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[–] pimento64@sopuli.xyz 33 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Talk about burying the lede

Another explanation for why the JWST may have seen an overrepresentation of galaxies rotating in one direction is that the Milky Way's own rotation could have caused it.

Previously, scientists had considered the speed of our galaxy's rotation to be too slow to have a non-negligible impact on observations made by the JWST.

“If that is indeed the case, we will need to re-calibrate our distance measurements for the deep universe," Shamir concluded. "The re-calibration of distance measurements can also explain several other unsolved questions in cosmology such as the differences in the expansion rates of the universe and the large galaxies that according to the existing distance measurements are expected to be older than the universe itself."

[–] pimento64@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 months ago

Fine, but I wasn't addressing what you refuted. Most likely the perpetual-war economies of the Axis would have turned on each other during the course of competitive colonization, and lead to a series of Balkanized fascist states fighting for control. I doubt that even Germany would have remained intact, or that non-Prussian Germans would have had civil rights even by Nazi standards. The various rogue states controlling the general area of Vichy France would undoubtedly still speak French. I was addressing your thesis:

It's not clear to me that the Allies lose, even if it's just the UK and USSR as the major powers.

If it's just the UK and USSR as the major powers, they lose.

[–] pimento64@sopuli.xyz 49 points 3 months ago (6 children)

Those are from the beginning of corporations, we don't need to look to speculative fiction. The British East India Company waged literal war against rival corporations.

[–] pimento64@sopuli.xyz 3 points 3 months ago

...do you think pirates weren't real? Hell, they're real now. The reason piracy isn't much more widespread isn't because humanity has progressed, it's because the navies of NATO powers and others constantly patrol the oceans to protect their economies' bottom lines.

[–] pimento64@sopuli.xyz 6 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Interesting thesis, however, you can't expect people not to notice that you buried the lede here:

The US provided aid

Here are thoughts on that from people who know an awful lot more about the USSR's war effort than anyone alive does. My italics:

I would like to express my candid opinion about Stalin's views on whether the Red Army and the Soviet Union could have coped with Nazi Germany and survived the war without aid from the United States and Britain. First, I would like to tell about some remarks Stalin made and repeated several times when we were "discussing freely" among ourselves. He stated bluntly that if the United States had not helped us, we would not have won the war. If we had had to fight Nazi Germany one on one, we could not have stood up against Germany's pressure, and we would have lost the war. No one ever discussed this subject officially, and I don't think Stalin left any written evidence of his opinion, but I will state here that several times in conversations with me he noted that these were the actual circumstances. He never made a special point of holding a conversation on the subject, but when we were engaged in some kind of relaxed conversation, going over international questions of the past and present, and when we would return to the subject of the path we had traveled during the war, that is what he said. When I listened to his remarks, I was fully in agreement with him, and today I am even more so.

– Nikita Khrushchev

And:

Today [1963] some say the Allies didn't really help us ... But listen, one cannot deny that the Americans shipped over to us material without which we could not have equipped our armies held in reserve or been able to continue the war.

—Georgy Zhukov

The military commissar and the Marshal of the Soviet Union are not mincing words here, they unequivocally confirm that the United States bankrolled their ability to continue to be at war and that the USSR would have been fucked without Lend-Lease. That scenario ends one way: with an Axis victory.

[–] pimento64@sopuli.xyz 4 points 3 months ago

That helps too many people. It doesn't serve the purpose of getting to laugh at the little people running around afraid and crying over dead loved ones. It doesn't cull people who disgust you, like the disabled. It doesn't beat people down — so, to a conservative, what good is it?

[–] pimento64@sopuli.xyz 75 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Why is there a circle around 90% of the text? It would have taken less time in the same editing screen to crop out the introduction if it isn't relevant.

[–] pimento64@sopuli.xyz 28 points 3 months ago (7 children)

To be fair, Vikings didn't necessarily want to exterminate ethnic groups or purge so-called unclean peoples, they simply targeted whomever had booty they could despoil.

[–] pimento64@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 months ago

Folly. You're living proof.

[–] pimento64@sopuli.xyz 5 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Don't use inexact language if you don't mean it. Think carefully— do you mean everything?

[–] pimento64@sopuli.xyz 3 points 3 months ago
  1. Have IOT device
  2. It's not secure

How could this have happened???

[–] pimento64@sopuli.xyz 0 points 4 months ago

You've done nothing to try to convince me that I am incorrect. You've not engaged with my original argument with any logical reasoning or facts

Stopped reading right there. Are you imitating Ben Shapiro on purpose, or are you ignoring what actually happened and then trotting that phrase out because it's how your mind actually works? I'm sure the degree mill you went to loved it either way.

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