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[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 days ago (1 children)

You joke, buuuuuuut https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/12/launch-code-for-us-nukes-was-00000000-for-20-years/

The USAF has denied this, multiple times.

I do not believe them.

Mainly because I know how people were during the cold war and have no doubt in my mind that the thought process was "nobody will ever access this without a reason, so let's make it super quick and easy or we might be radioactive slag before we finish typing"

The mere fact that it's believable is a problem.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

In theory, I agree. Nuclear weaponry should never exist. The power to erase millions of people with a single push of a button is absolute insanity.

In practice, the world isn't going to suddenly decide to de-arm itself and dismantle every nuke. So if they aren't giving up theirs, refusing to make my own over that just leaves me another corpse on the moral high road.

Sometimes I wonder if the world would be a better place had the Manhattan project been sabotaged by the scientists and nuclear weapons were deemed unfeasible. I'd like to think so.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 week ago

Yes, that's why I have no arguments against the "no jobs" part.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 week ago

ve never been to a rural area of the country, have you?

I've lived in them almost exclusively.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Assuming you spend $10 on avocado toast every day, as well as $75 on eating out for every meal, $20 for Starbucks, and ALSO assuming you have $150 worth of monthly subscriptions:

It will take you 25 years to save one million dollars. That's assuming you never get sick, never lose a job, never need to buy a car or have major repairs, or basically any kind of surprise expense or setback that could wipe out savings.

To be the richest person on earth, you would need to save that money every year for over 6 MILLION YEARS

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Thanks to how history is being recorded, there's no chance that he will be forgotten until civilization collapses.

I wouldn't want history to actually forget any shitty person (or good person) because that makes it way easier for someone with similar ideals to take power again.

It's more the sentiment.

I have a metaphorical bucket of piss just for Margaret Thatcher. ^26+6=1^

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago

Life is one endless torment after another, soooooooo.......

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I can't wait until Mccarthy has his final death and nobody remembers him anymore...

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Most

Ah, an optimist!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

dine on the flesh of Christians

Hard pass.

Too much fat, I'm on a diet.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

An off-brand oreo called Kaleidos. Idk what it is but they are better than oreos, and they're cheaper to boot.

Also a bag of milk chocolate chips. spread some peanut butter on bread, sprinkle some chips on top and pop them in the toaster oven. Boom. Toasted PB&C, goes nicely with a small cup of milk. Great when it's cold outside.

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