happybadger [he/him]

If chess made you smarter, every Paradox grand strategy game player would be a genius. Victoria 3 is much more intricate.

Genocide Joe 2024- “Bring the Boomerang Back”

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Orca JDPON stay winning.

Looking forward to a repeat of the 420th Epic Reddit Brigade immediately having their barracks bombed.

Well the noble defenders are currently in need of more soldiers. Go enlist now if this is the war you think it is. Do you need help finding out how to?

Two birds, one poisoned stone.

He had to be fleecing the private sponsor of the expedition. Even when he was making the sci-fi youtube circuit during the planning stages of it, particularly with Event Horizon, it seemed so absurd from the start. To pinpoint a location like that and find what you’re looking for immediately at the bottom of the sea doesn’t otherwise happen and he was absolutely confident in the anticipated result of a hypothesis with no basis. There was one conclusion right from the outset and that’s so wildly divorced from how science works.

Hopefully it ruins his career.

Joe Biden: The Lesser of Two Evils

The attack Wednesday in the Gulf of Aden targeted a Barbados-flagged bulk carrier called True Confidence,

It was unclear why the Houthis targeted the True Confidence. However, it had been listed as being owned by Oaktree Capital Management, a Los Angeles-based fund purchases vessels and sells them back to firms on installments. Oaktree did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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Meanwhile, a separate Houthi assault Tuesday apparently targeted the USS Carney, an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer that has been involved in the American campaign against the rebels

The Houthi attack on the Carney on Tuesday involved bomb-carrying drones and one anti-ship ballistic missile, the U.S. military’s Central Command said.

The U.S. later launched an airstrike destroying three anti-ship missiles and three bomb-carrying drone boats, the Central Command said.

Highlighting that because the autogenerated subtext makes it seem like they got the destroyer instead of the American-owned but Barbados-flagged bulk carrier. At least the destroyer attack shows that they are fielding more sea drones so that will be coming at some point.

I raved next to a concentration camp and all I got was confused for the inmates who look exactly like me.

The scariest thing about liberal warmongering in Ukraine is that they not thought about the possibility of losing. All the money being lost for nothing, the weapons being lost to anyone with money, the massive group of war-hardened Nazis who blame the west for their loss, the re-invigoration of Russia after training it on how to defeat all of our weapons/tactics, the permanent refugees powering the far right the same way Syria has. They’re so psychotically devoted to this obviously hopeless war that they think they can win it by pretending to be dogs on twitter alone, with no Plan B if that doesn’t defeat a superpower. It hasn’t and it won’t. With each conscript they sacrifice, the survivors around them have one more valid reason to want to turn their drones westward.

Adjusted for inflation, OJ Simpson’s legal fees during his murder trial were about $10m. I wonder what kind of lawyers you could get for Assange with $45m.

Those things are terrifying. There’s a video out there of a transport truck that was hit. Behind the truck is a pile of corpses. They look in the back and it’s completely swiss-cheesed, full of corpses. The cameraman then walks around front and every inch of the truck had been struck by a tungsten ball that went straight through it. The engine block looked the same as the canvas top. 180k of them saturating an area with enough force to penetrate any kind of cover.

There are few people I trust less as a leader than the decaying husk of Jim Crow.

Kamala Harris is one of them. Cognitively I’m more concerned about her. I would be less likely to vote than I am now and my current plan is to vote for my dog.

Nobody except the Israeli Air Force is allowed to dunk on the victims of October “Git Sum” 7th.

Nobody’s going to stop Germany from missing out on a genocide.

It was fun at its high point. The problem was like you said, always the same map. Shipping costs run like $20-150+ and that’s a month’s wage in many of the countries that have interesting snacks we aren’t already over-saturated with. Scams were only ever like 5% of trades at most and we never had a poisoning though, so overall a successful prototype of the thing that would work.

He was weird. In addition to the posts on the daily election threads, he was sending me PMs that were flattering in a way Patrick Bateman would compliment someone. Everything was blatantly manipulative and worded in a way that was simultaneously an interrogation I knew he was feeding to the admins. Then the dog caught his car and had to drive it while everyone else on the road screamed at him. I think he lasted like three days before handing over control to one of the mods who was so offended that they quit the website.

Nothing irks me more than someone who can’t handle positive chaos or slight inconvenience. He was so determined to stop the protest which was only over us not being able to moderate the subreddit without those third-party tools, all to preserve the sanctity of a community he hadn’t interacted with in almost a decade. There’s something deeply pathological about a power grab like that. Like what the fuck.

/r/snackexchange/ - I made it a protest subreddit by embracing Spez’s call for user democracy. Every day every single thing about the subreddit would be reset and users would have to vote for every aspect. The only rules were that you couldn’t abolish democracy and you couldn’t abolish me as the caretaker. /u/Icxcnika was a weird little goober who took it seriously instead of seeing it as a protest meant to derail the subreddit. He voted to make himself mod for a day and then the admins did a mod coup to make him the head, even over the other two mods that had been there for a decade and built all of the third-party tools we relied on to make the subreddit work. He had only posted once, some 8 or 9 years before, and had never moderated. The users and other mods fucking hated him and activity in the subreddit fell off. Now he no longer posts, one of the other mods no longer posts, and the last remaining one is apparently now a bot that sells funko pops.

/r/fifthworldproblems/ - The other mods and I were all on board with the protest. They forced us back open so we refused to do anything. Now it’s restricted and the only link posted since the protest was a Lemmy instance that I didn’t have anything to do with.

/r/modernart - I started rebuilding this one after it was overtaken by spam from people who don’t know what “modern art” actually means. I want to keep the subreddit because there’s good radicalisation potential with it in the right hands, but I stopped posting and only remove the most obnoxious spam days after it’s reported to tank the quality of the subreddit. I’ll be replacing everything with a Lemmy instance link at some point but was always holding out for Hexbear to open up community creation.

I had a few others that I just left or let the admin bot take over.