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Rayman2943 posted...

Lmao you ate it up.

And so did a lot of Afghans that were fighting on our side and yes I'm fucking upset about the result. Happy veterans day and go fuck yourself.

Rayman2943 posted...

Nope. That was never an original goal. You are straight up lying here.

That was the goal I was told when I was actually sent to Afghanistan. We weren't fighting Al Qaeda in 2010.

Rayman2943 posted...

The documents reveal that high-ranking officials generally held the opinion that the war was unwinnable while keeping this view from the public.

And I've read the entire paper. Either you are lying or you ate the propaganda right up from your superiors boy.

It was unwinnable because every year the definition of winning was building some magical ever victorious Afghan army that could beat the Taliban without US support which was not going to be realistic in any of the years we tried it. I was there in 2010-2011 and we actually did push back the Taliban everywhere and keep them from taking the country for another 10 years. I have to believe we gave the Afghan people a decade without them in power.

Rayman2943 posted...

Oh ok:

Detail the USAs long term plan for Afghanistan. Here I'll do it for you:

We kept the Taliban from taking and holding a single province for 20 years. Then we just up and left because of some fucking nonsense about "the forever war" which ultimately amounted to us as a country getting frustrated that they couldn't stand on their own and bored of the whole endeavor and unlike every other president before him Joe Biden didn't listen to the adults in the room and pulled everyone out and shut the door behind them and said "whats the worst that could happen"

Well here it is.

Rayman2943 posted...

Lmao stop lying. I've read the Afghanistan papers. None of your superiors even had a plan.

Name the provincial capitols that the Taliban had the day Joe Biden became president. Here I'll do it for you:

It was hard to remember all those places but I managed it. Whew.

Rayman2943 posted...

No. Just that this was inevitable. Because the US military is incompetent. I've read the Afghan papers.

In the time that we had more than 5,000 troops out of the 2 million in our military in the country they didn't capture a single city or even a district center (which in some cases is no more than a small town) and hold it. Nothing about them taking over was inevitable unless you spout some nonsense like "we had to end the forever war".

Rayman2943 posted...

You don't care. I've seen the posts you've made about nuking countries lol.

What you are upset about is that the US military was embarrassed.

You don't actually care about the people of Afghanistan. Its your ego that hurts.

You've dodged this question multiple times.

Are you glad that the Taliban retook Afghanistan? Do you think that is a good result? Mr 14 karma throwaway account. No more just spurting out the same drool of "you don't actually care about the people". Tell us what you think should have happened there if not this apocalyptic disaster that has and is continuing to unfold in the country with millions of people on the brink of starvation in a country with a bunch of barely literate terrorists running the show.

Rayman2943 posted...

War is a game for you people. I know. Hence why its something the higher ups do for fun.

It disgusts me to see people like you who ranted for years about how we should end the 'forever war' and then woop wooping and celebrating the fucking Taliban taking over Afghansitan because you see it as some sort of victory for.... what? Theocracy? Despair? Destruction? Terrorism? Why are you happy about this result?

Rayman2943 posted...

You have "black friends"

I am not cheering for the taliban. Just pointing out you got your ass whooped and need to deal with it.

We didn't get our asses whooped we got bored. Afghanistan fell to the Taliban not because the US ran out of money or troops but because we, as a country, got bored of it.

Rayman2943 posted...

You don't actually care. That's not why we were there.

You lost. Get over it.

I've met Afghans and considered them friends and I have no idea what happened to them or their families. You are some man child around the world that is playing cheerleader for the other team because yo "imperialism bad".

Rayman2943 posted...

No. I've seen the posts you made about nuking countries. You are upset because you lost. Not because you care.

Us military got their asses whooped.

Are the people of Afghanistan better off now that the Taliban won and we are gone? Have you ever met an Afghan?

Chicken posted...

D-do you need an ambulance...?

No the US is not a third world country dude. Actually read about why it isn't rather than asking such a ridiculous question.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Developed_country
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Developing_country

I mean jesus the third world term by definition excludes the US because it dates back to the cold war and was just meant to refer to countries that weren't part of the alliance of the US (first world) or the Soviets (second world).

You would know all this if you actually bothered to learn it at any point in your already long life based on the age of your account. Does information just not stick in your brain or have you actually never had the curiousity to learn any of this information?

Your account is 15 years old which I'm going to assume means you are 30 or near to it and you have never bothered to learn much of anything in your entire life. I weep for humanity because I know you are probably above average in intelligence because you are smart enough to have finally arrived at the poitn where you are asking this question.

But I know that nothing of this is actually going to stick in your brain and a day from now if I asked you to define "third world country" you wouldn't be able to say something intelligent. This is something that you will never know. You are genetically incapable of actually having this information stick in your brain.

Chicken posted...

Did you have a stroke there?

You live in one of the wealthiest countries in the world in 2021 that has relatively high life expectancies where poor people eat more calories on average than the rich because food is so plentiful and where over a million people cross thousands of miles just to get to and you ask the question "is this like a third world country or something" because you've never actually in your entire life done the research to realize that the US actually is dramatically wealthier and has better living standards than the actual poor countries on this planet.

Chicken posted...

millions of people...?

Whoa thats a big number. Millions of people. I can't even imagine a number that big let alone the number that I'm assuming is even bigger than is the number of people that live in the US or the % of this imaginary number that the former is to the latter or what that ultimately would mean in terms of health effects and life expectancies.

So yeah. Whoa. Third world country yo. Whoa.

Esrac posted...

Well, first of all, you should specify what you mean by "a good chunk".

Its like. A big chunk. Like you know like flint like.... you know. Like yeah. You know........... ugh.... its a lot.

Chicken posted...

a good chunk of the US doesn't even have access to clean tap water lol

Since I'm going to assume you are not at the point where you could understand percentages I'll put it this way.

A much gooder bigger chunk of people in third world countries don't have access to clean tap water and that makes them generally live less longer. You understand?

Because statistically we have much higher median incomes and general living standards than any country that is even borderline considered to be undeveloped or third world and you would know that if you actually made the effort to google "third world country" once ever in your entire life and actually understand the words in the top 5 results.

No. I'm 6'1" my Dad is 6'4".

the_rowan posted...

To be honest, this is one of those things that, as a college student learning things on my own, caused me to often feel like I was missing some fundamental financial concept. Like, it's blindingly obvious that you lose anything you pay in interest, so you should do whatever means you pay the least interest when paying off your loans, yet people I would think should have so much more experience with managing finances would not follow that decision tree. Turns out people are just unbelievably stupid. You're looking at effectively taking a 15% rate of return on that money vs 3% (i.e. every year you'll have another $300 vs another $60, ignoring the compounding rate).

(I'm aware that there are more nuances when deciding whether you should put money towards paying off a loan vs doing something else with it, but generally paying off a loan with a 15% interest rate should be one of the absolute top priorities for your money after the things you need to survive.)

On a side note, my credit card company probably hates my guts since I haven't paid them a cent of interest in the entire 15 years I've had a card...

It was baffling to see because the guy isn't an idiot. If he was stupid I wouldn't think anything of it and stop trying to explain it but in most other respects than math apparently this is a fairly smart guy. We are both software engineers and I know he is capable of doing good work but I just couldn't get him to realize it was basic math.

(355,000*.03) < ( 350,000*.03 + 5,000*.15)

I would write that on the board and he would demand we add in loan terms, map it out on a spread sheet, factor in how much the person is spending on their grocery bills every month, etc.. He just saw the 350,000 and lost his mind.

philsov posted...

Give them like 2 scenarios

A: 5 years from now, if loan A is not paid off and B is left to its own devices, you will owe X
B: 5 years from now, if loan A is left to its own devices and B is paid off, you will owe Y

Is X larger or smaller than Y?!?

(disregard stuff like inflation, tbh, just focus on raw growth)

Whenever I tried to do that he would try and say I was trying to make it too simple and try to add factors that had nothing to do with the problem at hand.

Like I would write something on the board like

500*.15 > 500*.03 ..... so he should pay off part of the loan

And then he would demand I factor in the length of the loan terms, and the total principle, and then add in a bunch of other factors that didn't matter and then he would try to cancel out math by saying "and this is like a lot of money you owe like hundreds of thousands in interest on the house so if you pay that off at all its better and if you just pay the required payment on the lower loan it will go away on its own. I'm the one that has paid off his mortgage I know this better than you kids".

He just couldn't wrap his head around the fact that the $500 didn't magically become bigger because he was putting it towards a longer term larger loan.

The basic question from a guy was "should I pay off my small high interest loan or put the money towards my low interest mortgage" which turned into an hour of me trying to plain why paying off $2,000 towards a loan with a 15% interest rate is better than playing off $2,000 towards a much larger loan with a 3% interest rate.

I just couldn't think of a way to explain it. His argument basically amounted to "mathematically it makes the most sense to make the biggest scariest loan slightly less scary than to get rid of that $2000 in credit card debt." How are people this mathematically illiterate?

It's a cool feature in games where you get new abilities as the game progresses. Instead of the game having you walk before you can run you can start off running with your full set of abilities.

In Denver we have Snooze A.M. Eatery and the Denver Biscuit Company which are both unbelievably far above the standards of IHOP, Village Inn, or Dennys.

https://www.denbisco.com/menu

https://www.snoozeeatery.com/menu/

ButteryMales posted...

Is it wrong that I thought he was white from his name?

His real name is Jaques Berman Webster the second.

Its pronounced "oh boy here I go killing again" (grabs katana and hops off ledge).

Water, fire, air, and dirt
Fucking Seasons, how do they work?
And I don't wanna talk to a scientist
Y'all motherfuckers lying, and getting me pissed

I generally think about it like this..... this is Squenix basically taking the same route as comic books or actual mythology (think greek and roman gods).

What you are seeing isn't necessarily a scene for scene remake or a new game but just a different story told with the same iconic characters that has a similar tone and elements as the original but with things shifted around.

The original FFVII came out in 1997 and if you are honest with yourself you will admit it was a bit of a scattered clusterfuck in terms of its story. Some memorable elements but this remake is jumping in in the 2020's to dive deeper and take the parts that people liked and expand upon them. Take that tone and the story beats people remember and make something new around that.

I feel lucky in this (35 feel healthy and painless right now) but about 2 years ago I got a pinched nerve super bad "cervical radiculopathy" and I had a few weeks of extreme pain and discomfort. Which sucked.

Honestly though I was in the Army from age 20-24 and in that time I felt like I was constantly in physical pain but it was seen as normal. Rolled ankles, sore back, sore feet, sore knees, sore muscles, sore body. Since I got out and got into civilian life everything has felt easy physically.

John Cho is married with two children.

Steelix500 posted...

John Rabe was a Nazi who tried to stop the Nanjing massacre during WW2

Rabe clearly didn't truly know who the Nazis were at their core.

On 28 February 1938, Rabe left Nanking. He traveled first to Shanghai, returning to Berlin on 15 April 1938. He took with him a large number of source materials documenting Japanese atrocities in Nanking.[12] Rabe showed films and photographs of Japanese atrocities in lecture presentations in Berlin and wrote to Hitler, asking him to use his influence to persuade the Japanese to stop further violence. Rabe was detained and interrogated by the Gestapo; his letter was never delivered to Hitler.

The Hitler and Nazi party that existed in Rabe's mind when he supported wasn't the one that existed in real life or else he wouldn't have gotten himself locked up by the Gestapo for literally asking Hitler to demand the Japanese show mercy to the Chinese.

1. You basically have to murder someone to get a "Dishonorable Discharge". These guys will at worse get an "OTH" other than honorable. Not nearly the same thing.

2. Once the consequences get real nearly everyone will fall in line, particularly people on active duty.

I know the Dynasty Warriors series sucks I just don't need you to tell me.

Jx1010 posted...

Has he directed alot of movies? I have only seen apocalypto and the passion.

He actually got a Best Director Oscar for Braveheart

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TME0xubdHQc

Incredibly historically inaccurate but pretty great.

The jobs these guys did were a lot more boring than you would imagine. They were checking ids in front of dining facilities inside the wire not running around fighting insurgents.

Its a bit weird.

My 2018 vehicle that I got very slightly used is worth several thousand more than I paid for it. It was an Accord EX-L 2018 that was a dealer loaner with just 3,000 miles on it when I got it for 25.5k which was a good deal at the time.

I've got 24,000 miles on it right now but if I plug in EX-L Accord I see cars that look exactly like mine with the same amount of miles going for 28k. Cars with 60,000 miles going for 26. Its fucking crazy.

The Toyota costs half as much....

For naturalization it basically already is a requirement but I don't think we should regulate it for people living here in general.

This seems like a solution in search of a problem. Where in this country do English speakers feel disadvantaged because people don't speak the lingo? If a person doesn't speak English their ceiling for advancement economically and educationally is damn near the floor and everyone knows it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFTcA4QLHw0

Black Sails. Didn't actually finish the series but the intro was so damn epic.

Jagr_68 posted...

$120...for 1 whole terabyte...to accomodate PS5 read speeds?

Yeah something tells me this fucker will fry, crash, or make me constantly paranoid about its true stability every time it boots up.

*Edit*
The manufacturer even confirmed it doesn't meet the minimum speeds to function effectively on PS5.

As a PC gamer that sounds like bullshit to me. Why would a slower read speed on the hard drive mean anything but slightly longer load times? Its still an NVME hard drive even if it isn't a higher speed one.

Probably doesn't fit but Bolo was a random mac game where you controlled a little tank that could be played over a network back in the day and it got big enough at my middle school for us to have our own little bolo group of around 10 people on any given day spending time making our little bases and attacking opponents.

APB comes to mind. It was one of the most expensive games ever at release. It was intended to be an MMO version of GTA Online years before the GTA series actually went online..... and the company went bankrupt less than 2 months after it launched and the servers shut down shortly after for a time while they sorted out the whole bankruptcy situation.

Why don't you move out then?

chrono625 posted...

More than half were ages 65+.

If you do the math about 170k were under 65 which is about 0.1% of the workforce assuming they were all working.

An added point that is a bit cold blooded sounded but true is that if a group of people that are on average old enough to be retired people die you would actually expect to see the opposite of a labour shortage.

Retired people don't work but they are still consumers that need products and services.

The pandemic is causing these shortages of labor but the deaths on their own aren't.

What percentage of those people were in the workforce?

If we are talking about 250k less workers out of the 170 million or so in the US workforce that isn't actually going to cause a significant labor shortage.