boboblaw [he/him, they/them]

Binary Large OBject

It’s not that it’s a bad tool, it’s that

it also removes human bias element from the equation

is an impossible standard.

Honestly it seems like an arbitrary line, considering that Herbert’s story continues for a few more books after that. The first two books could also be considered a good standalone (duology?), since they cover the span of Paul’s story.

Really, the only wrong answer is the first book alone. I think most people read only the first book and get the wrong idea.

Good idea. I’ve heard that nuking cities is a very effective way of forcing a stubborn enemy nation to surrender.

It’s also preferable to a prolonged invasion and conventional bombing campaign, simply in terms of number of casualties. The number of people killed by the two nuclear bombings it would take to force Ukraine to surrender would be significantly smaller than the number of casualties incurred by a drawn out conventional invasion.

Seems like the only moral course of action for Putin to take.

Ah, the Siamese Room argument.

Never heard of real debris, why is it better?

Edit: looks like it’s a seed box?

Not necessarily subscription, it looks like the $30 osmand+ app supports it. Also, you can just steal it. :D

Don’t forget they also have to say the magic words: “I have been held accountable.”

Dang, you got us you master rhetoritician. There has never been a nuclear war so there’s no reason to think there may ever be a nuclear war. Gosh you’re smart. Especially when your arguments alternate between smug inanity and barely controlled frothing at the mouth.

Are we debating the moral merit

No, you’re bringing morality into this when it doesn’t belong. You’re confusing your feelings of moral justification for strategic justification.

Whether or not there’s a substantial moral difference between invading a neighboring country and invading one on the other side of the planet is irrelevant in this scenario. If a geopolitical rival provides that invaded country with the means to launch missile strikes into your territory, the response will be the same.

Your tendency to base major decisions on feelings of moral outrage or self righteousness are not how war planning is or should be done. It reeks of the condescending assumption that it is the job of America to be world police, and punish the wrongdoers.

He just made a classic blunder, and got his hand caught in the cookie jar.

I’m sorry to have to break it to you, but it doesn’t matter one iota whether or not Officer America thinks Putin has been caught being naughty. Your desire to punish him will always have to be weighed against the possibility of nuclear Armageddon.

I felt like that had to be said, because I think you psychos are still likely to think it’s worth it.

Why not all of the above, and a dedicated idiot to boot?

Educate yourself or shut the fuck up. Otherwise, don’t act surprised when you’re ridiculed for constantly voicing worthless thoughts.

Lol there’s way more of us than there are of you anti-reading shitheads. And of course when I see such aggressive anti-intellectual bullshit, I feel compelled to mock the moron who’s lauding the virtues of being moronic.

Marketing lessons, lmao. You certainly have the intellectual depth of a puddle, my guy.

No one gives a shit about how much appeal our posting has for you. We’re not trying to sell you anything. We’re not even trying to cajole you into being a little less anti-intellectual and wilfully ignorant.

We’d rather just slap you down with a concise well cited historical source, just to make it abundantly clear to everyone else that you’re an ignorant intellectually lazy non-entity who has no business getting involved. Stick to your monosyllabic social media communications, replying to the latest Facebook memes, and saying all the classic lines from Reddit.

We’re not trying to get you to change, honestly I think you’re much more entertaining this way. Only semi-literate and clearly too big for your boots. Please continue.

No you come to social media to jump into threads about complex topics like history, philosophy, and politics…and then engage only thru simple thought-terminating cliches.

When someone quotes a relevant passage from a history book, you arrogantly dismiss it for being completely inappropriate for a “social media” site. What is appropriate here, of course, is you weighing in on these complex topics with the correct form of communication – an incoherent series of monosyllabic words strung together.

Now that is productive communication.

I wish you luck on your continuing mission to convince yourself that you’re the articulate master of communication here, actually.

chapotraphouse

excuse me, this is fan site for the podcast Citations Needed, get your facts straight.

also lmao, when you end up calling anarchists leninists you are proving us right – you do need to be educated about the definitions of basic terms.

Verbosity is the soul of wit.

One graffito attests that visitors had to explore the dark tunnels and painted images by torchlight, making a pun on the visitor’s name, Dadouchios (Greek: Δᾳδούχιος) and the Greek: δᾳδοῦχος, translit. daidoukhos, lit. “torch”:

Δᾳδούχιος σχολαστικὸς ἰατ(ρὸς) ἦλθον κ(αὶ) ἐθαύμασα καὶ ἄεπος ἦλθα δᾳδοῦχος

I, Dadouchios, scholastikos (and) physician came and admired in silence bearing a torch

Ancient shitposting on the tomb wall.

Is there another app you’d suggest instead? Signal seems to work well for OP’s use case.

Good for what?