bobo1900

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[–] bobo1900@startrek.website 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Do you believe in a God that punishes or one that loves? I'm assuming a loving God, because that's the one I think would exist.

Think about it, if you self harm and are contemplating suicide, it means you are suffering. If someone loves you truly, would they be upset if you are suffering? Of course not, they would be sad, empathetic, caring and understanding.

Ultimately, I don't think it's fair to worry about what God thinks about you. Live is complicated enough even when thinking about yourself. You don't take up space, the world is big, a couple of pounds more are not going to change the fact that you deserve to live as much as anybody else.

[–] bobo1900@startrek.website 21 points 1 month ago (10 children)

Usually Trigger Warning, to warn someone more sensitive to triggers to be careful. Don't really know which trigger would be in this email?

[–] bobo1900@startrek.website 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I wouldn't be so sure. From the little I know of Greenland, the people are quite combative of their independence, as all native people are once they have been absorbed by western culture. The prime minister/governor/can't remember the title said quite clearly that they aren't for sale.

Also, I don't feel like 100k/resident is really a lot of money.

[–] bobo1900@startrek.website 17 points 1 month ago (7 children)

Trump is offering them to be part of the North American Technate which provides an abundance of resources. Look at the map.

That's bullshit. Trump wants Greenland's resources for his empire. The Greenlanders will get exploited and see no benefit to these resources. They will probably lose welfare and gain police brutality.

Did any south american or african colony ever gain anything from being 'acquired' by european powers?

[–] bobo1900@startrek.website 8 points 1 month ago
  • the US most likely had inside help, Venezuela being less hostile towards them than China or Russia it was probably easy to convince people
  • head of states of China, Russia and North Korea are much more likely to expect such attacks and have probably more resources to spend on personal protection and armies. Putin is notoriously paranoid and it's difficult to locate because he spends a lot of reaources to hide
  • as others said, those countries have nukes
[–] bobo1900@startrek.website 2 points 1 month ago

I enjoyed it a lot and honestly, while I could see the massive influence it had on other things, and even being impressed by the distopian technology that would seem really scifi at the time, but is normal today, I think there are some aspects that have been explored further, but not at the same detail.

For example, doublethink and newspeak as a concept exists in other media, but I've never seen it explored to such details than in the book.

[–] bobo1900@startrek.website 8 points 1 month ago

Fuck nazis, but cruising around a squadron of Tiger tanks in a flower meadow must be a pretty majestic sight.

[–] bobo1900@startrek.website 4 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I wonder why apt search on ubuntu and debian must be so bad: on mint each package has a single line and an easy letter telling you if the program is installed or not. On debian/ubuntu each program takes multiple lines, are all green and the only way to distinguish installed ones is to look for an (installed) string at the end of the first line. I like Mint's apt version so much

[–] bobo1900@startrek.website 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Those probably aren't the normal cured meat you get at any supermarket, if it's quality aged stuff, it's good stuff

[–] bobo1900@startrek.website 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Why is the Enterprise NX-01 missing a nacelle?

[–] bobo1900@startrek.website 3 points 1 month ago

Pretty sure TNG did it way before with the traveller episode

[–] bobo1900@startrek.website 47 points 1 month ago (5 children)

That feels so bad for signal integrity, especially at 5+ GT/s

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