Being told I should switch to linux

If you’re saying that you clearly haven’t tried Linux. Once you tried it you too will be changed for life and only ever preach the wonders of linux/s

Good luck with the tankies and 50 cent army.

That was wild. Thanks for sharing that little story and Thank you for your service. Glad you’re still with us to be able to share this.

I think its safe to say any external force would have a massive difficulty taking out anything of strategic value or military within CONUS.

Now do the Comically bad midnight ambush!

Hell of a pilot to land that thing safely after what you did to it. /s

Even if we massively downgraded the US military, reduced the air force, navy, army, marines and put them exactly on par with the Russians in terms of technology, manpower and equipment , took away all allies, we removed the vast gun ownership by the general population. The US still has one massively unassailable advantage.

Geography.

The nearest major naval base to the US is about 5000 miles. By sea, thats more than a week’s worth of travel going full steam. Which realistically is the only way to bring the absolutely massive amounts of troops and supplies needed to invade the US, given that most of Russia’s transport aircraft can’t even fly that distance when loaded.

So after a week of travelling by sea, and having given plenty of time for the US to mobilize its forces and prepare a defense, you now have to somehow make a contested landing with what’s left of the navy that didn’t already get sunk on the way over. What’s left of that landing now has to fight in heavily built up areas, of which either coast is going to be a nightmare but LA would be the worse of the two given the large open spaces where snipers positioned in tall buildings could pin down entire companies and call in air and artillery strikes as needed.

New York is going to be no fun either because you essentially have to demolish each building you come across like what we see the Russian army doing to various fronts in Ukraine, the only way they’ve been able to make gains is to remove ALL defensible positions otherwise your army gets picked off and ambushed as they make their way through the cities.

While all this is being done, your troops need ammunition, fuel, food which is 5000 miles away while the US has everything it needs in its backyard. This invasion is dead in its tracks before they hit central park in NY or Disneyland in LA.

History of the Universe,

There’s probably good stuff on SEA, Astrum, PBS Spacetime? even Cool Worlds. To a lesser extent perhaps even John Michael Godier or Isaac Arthur have lots of good information because even though they are Sci-fi channels, they do hard sci-fi, so all based on established science and astronomy.

History of the earth(geological),

PBS Eons, Sci Show, History of the Earth,

History of the earth, (anthropological) North 02

This drives some of them with even more fervor to save your soul.

I’d caveat that with watch reliable well researched channels and not pop-sci or even god forbid pseudoscientific, or pseudo-intellectual channels that seem helpful but are actually BS wrapped in foil.

Any of the PBS science channels are typically good for science.

How money works, Wendover, are great for Economics stuff.

The engineering mindset, practical engineering are great for engineering related stuff.

Thank you!

Non IT guy here.

Not all attackers might want access to the POS system. Some might just want to mess around

Couldn’t someone mess with the WiFi or network itself? I’m just figuring someone who doesn’t secure the WiFi is someone who’s going to leave admin passwords on the default and they’d be able to mess with the network settings just enough to bring the system to a halt.

Hey I’d settle for 10 million likes on YouTube… In views alone thats worth like $100k in ad revenue. But given that likes are typically only 10% of viewership, that means a video liked by 10 million probably has 100 million views. Which is about $1 million in ad revenue for just that video, assuming a low end payout of $0.01 per view.

Things would have to get massively shitty for that to happen. The volume of content on YouTube will be extremely difficult to replicate.

Just as a reference look at reddit. They’ve suffered a loss of users but they’re not going down anytime soon and while lemmy still isn’t going to take over anytime soon. There’s just too much inertia…

I’ll pick a Moto over a Samsung anyday.

Samsung has the worst battery life of all smartphones, period. Not to mention half the apps you get with the phone are bloat ware that can’t be deleted.

Adorable and hilarious at the same time.

This is maybe why democracy in its current state is flawed.

When pandering to the masses will allow you to get them to vote against their best interests. Perhaps people need to pass some sort of simple test before being able to vote and maybe rules in place against convicted felons running for office of any kind…

Too late. Gun is in recoil recovery, means you’ve already been hit. Take all the time you need to figure it out.

PSA whitening toothpastes are just normal toothpastes with added abrasives. So they temporary whiten your teeth because you’ve removed the outer most enamel which gives your teeth its hardness. At the mere cost of tooth sensitivity and future staining, the deeper dentine layer is much softer and porous which is easily damaged by acidic foods but also more easily stained due to the porosity. So congratulations your teeth are now more stained.