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130$ for something that looks like it was made in a middle school art class? El. Oh. El.

UnfairRepresent posted...

Their problem was oil and fuel supplies.

Even if it wasn't the tanks were so over engineered they were a nightmare to maintain. Those interwoven running wheels on the treads? Total fucking nightmare to fix. Or even just find base maintenance. Just because Germany had great tanks on paper means nothing. Weapons in the service shop are useless.

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We haven't used floppy disks for years but go look at what the save icon is for everything.

spikethedevil posted...

With Afgan/Iraq you ran to the UK and France, France said no but unfortunately Tony Blair was in GBs pocket and went with it. You also asked for help in Vietnam but no one agreed to it.

We took the Vietnam disaster from the French in the first place. And need I remind you that the UK and France really wanted to bomb Libya but begged the US to help do it so Americans were the ones paying for it.

NATO is basically a bunch of weak countries agreeing to let the US sit troops in their borders in exchange for the US defending them. Most of Europe's armies are pretty weak.

And even if they weren't, the only countries with the capability of facing Russia, defensively at least, are France and Germany. The rest are too small to field an army. Maybe the UK, but that's a big if and depends on a large conscription drive.

I expected India here. Or at least Florida.

Biofighter55 posted...

apparently not

https://www.safewise.com/blog/safest-metro-cities/

I dispute the validity of your list based on the fact Baltimore isn't on the list of most dangerous and they're having multiple murders a day.

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You know, for all the smoking in the 80s, and all the hairspray, it's amazing anyone survived.

D. Too skinny without any ass or tits.

BalanceLost posted...

A Swedish production company on behalf of the EBU has put together a US version which is starting in March though. For the States and the territories.

Because America needed another reality singing show.

mooreandrew58 posted...

I seem to recall hearing we stopped trying to assassinate him because we feared he'd be replaced by someone more competent.

I mean, his own generals were trying to kill him too, so there is that. And if you look at all the plots to kill Hitler, the amount of luck this bastard had to not die until he chose to kill himself rather than face an army of very angry Russians is insane. There was a bomb plot that failed to blow his plane up because it was too cold, another plot using the same bombs failed because the guy couldn't get close enough to Hitler (the suicide bomber also got very lucky surviving), another attempt that was part of the Valkaryie plot was called off because they couldn't get Himmler at the same time (they didn't want to risk a civil war with the SS). Yet ANOTHER plot was stopped by a German Officer not out of loyalty but just because he thought it was wrong to kill a man while he was eating. And then there was the bomb that actually DID detonate, but because of the placement of the bomb against a heavy table leg and the open windows, Hitler and just about everyone else in the room survived. Hitler created a special gold wound badge to commemorate living through the attempt, for himself and everyone else in the room.

I also recall reading, and take this with a grain of salt, the Allied powers considered slipping Hitler female growth hormone to try and neuter the power of his voice.

Master_Bass posted...

Who gives a fuck how hot members of Congress are?

Mostly gold diggers.

TheMikh posted...

if there's any takeaway from speer's memoirs, hitler's micromanagement was like throwing a wrench in the tactical and logistical mechanisms of the german war machine

he was certainly not a military genius

I once read Germany had seven nuclear programs going at once because Hitler didn't want any one faction to get too powerful. One of these nuclear programs was led by the German Post office.

UnholyMudcrab posted...

Everyone knows that exactly 5 events happened during WWII: Pearl Harbor, Stalingrad, D-Day, the atomic bombs, and the Holocaust. And maybe Berlin fell at some point in there, I'm not too sure.

Not true! Call of Duty taught me something or other happened at Moscow too! I think it involved using potatoes for grenade training...

Blue_Inigo posted...

It's what they taught us in American high schools as one of the big downfalls of Germany. I'm surprised myself to see that may not be the case

Well, that's when American high schools aren't ignoring the fact the USSR was involved at all to better fit Cold War era propaganda.

LeoRavus posted...

Fucking why? The national average salary for flight attendants is $56K. That's above the average American salary

If you subscribe to the notion that tips are for above average service, a flight attendant's job is to provide service to passengers.

The Popo posted...

One job that I refuse to tip is a bathroom attendant. Im not giving someone a dollar for handing me a paper towel.

I'm not fancy enough for places that have those attendants. And why the fuck are they paying some guy to stand in a bathroom, watch me pee, and then offer me a paper towel. At least offer me a real hand towel. Does he at least snitch on coworkers for not washing their hands?

DrizztLink posted...

Valets get tips, they ain't serving food

That one is weird to me. Like, what am I tipping for? You to drive like you were taught and not fuck my car up? Do you bash your car up? If so why would they trust you to valet park?

I'll give you flight attendant I guess.

This actually catches on and I'm putting him with the guy who invented pop up ads for modern day people that are literally Satan.

ShineboxPhil posted...

Too much of the Nazi Leadership were like Hitler, ordinary infantrymen in the Kaiser's army, who had little grasp of the full scope of the war.

Yeah, the closest I think he had in his inner circle to someone who was a real officer was Herman Goring, and Goring only led JG I towards the end of WWI after The Red Baron died. Or did he only have Jasta 11? Doesn't matter in the long run. Running a Squadron is a lot different than running a whole air force. That had an armored land division for some stupid fucking reason.

The other problem with invading Russia is that prior to fighting them, he'd faced small countries. Russia is not small, to state the obvious. And once they moved most of their factories east of the URals, well, that was it. They have a huge population, and now you can't even stop them from making weapons of war. Then you declare war on America and you have the same problem, plus a giant ocean. And you don't have any four engine bombers. Why? Because some other officers convinced Goring they were useless, a fact Goring bemoaned late in the war. If they could reach the factories it may have made a difference. But then again probably not.

ShineboxPhil posted...

Basically not just Hitler but a large bulk of the German military brass were glorified yes men who were too scared to tell him the truth
https://youtu.be/sbim2kGwhpc

There's also the suspicious manner in which Albert Speer's predecessor, Fritz Todt, died in a plane crash in what is now Poland. Todt was a big opponent of even invading Russia in the first place and there are theories he may have been trying to negotiate an end to the war on the Eastern Front on his own. Speer himself was also supposed to be on that flight but was stopped by Hitler personally.

Now, if Hitler's top brass were competent and he stayed out of planning the war, and they didn't invade Russia... They MIGHT have got a sizable hold on on Europe had they avoided drawing the Soviets and America in, if only because eventually the British were going to run out of money to fight the war. But I doubt it long term. The German Army and the SS spent as much time fighting partisans behind their lines as they did fighting the enemy. So "Greater Germany" was destined, most likely, to collapse into a mess not unlike how Africa looks now.

PoundGarden posted...

Much as I love Futurama they need to just let it die

Agreed. The finale it got was perfect for it. We don't need to continue it.

K181 posted...

Hitler horribly crippled the German army in WWII. He cost them far more often than he contributed to a solid strategy.

"Mein Fuhrer, we've created the first jet fighter! We may be able to slow the tide of bombers the British and Americans are sending our way day and night!"
Hitler: Can you make it do dive bombing too?
"I... DOn't see why not..."
Hitler: Perfect! Let me know when it can do that and we'll start full production then!

And thus, the Me262 was heavily delayed, during a time when Germany desperately needed interceptors for the waves of Allied Bombers coming their way. And not another dive bomber.

"Military genius"

No the fuck he wasn't. lmfao If he'd said "genius orator" he'd be right. But a good part of why the Third Reich lost was because Corporal Hitler thought he knew more than the generals.

pogo_rabid posted...

If they're fired straight up, they're the worst you'll get is a minor knock on the head

No. No. No. This is so fucking wrong.

1. Mythbusters tested this. There was at least one round they flat out couldn't find and the ones they did find were deeply buried.
2. Turn on your local news after New Year's Eve or American Independence Day. No matter where you were there will be at least one story of someone being killed by a falling bullet from who the fuck knows where.

Your assumptions are so fucking ignorant.

pogo_rabid posted...

It's effective range is ~500 yards

Yeah, that's traveling somewhat parallel to the Earth. Fired in the air, it will arc, why under the effects of wind and probably the EArth's rotation, spin back, and fall. A bullet is specifically shaped to cut through air generally speaking, and then under the effects of gravity... And the shape also generally being conductive to inserting itself violently through human flesh...

The_Creep_2020 posted...

Posting Onion as news lol

The worst part is give it about a dozen posts and CE will be freaking out like it's a real news story.

Slayerblade11 posted...

But in FO4 you fight a death wimp within in the fist 40 minutes of the game, get gifted a suit of power armor and minigun to deal with it and there is zero tension.

So how did your next encounter without any minigun ammo and the power armor out of batteries go?

indica posted...

that isn't overly mawkish and preferably not about a kid or teenager.

You just ruled out literally all of them. All. Of. Them.

Lord_Shadow posted...

Where the Red Fern Grows

Actually came here to post this.

Relient_K posted...

When I go to a wiki for info about monster drops in a game I dont need 3 simotaneous audio ads playing with 2 pop up ads fighting to block the text I'm trying to read with the tiniest x to close that can't detect where I'm pushing it and forces me to their unsafe website that's even more ad infested. It's ridiculous.

You basically described why Fandom is unusable on mobile. My personal favorite mobile ads are the ones that feel the need to frame my whole fucking screen and make the site unreadable just so I might look down and see an ad for McDonalds.

Actually. There is one free mmo I used to play, and when the new owners got it, one of the first things they did was move the wiki because players complained so much about how shitty a website Fandom is now. I should not have to use an adblocker to make your site usuable.

Umbreon posted...

Long as it's filling and tasty. Nothing wrong with introducing heathier meals to kids.

Filling and tasty doesn't even describe non-vegan school food

I can think of no faster way to make kids hate vegan food than to make it a school lunch. They couldn't even serve good tasting pizza when I was in school. I doubt they'll be able to make vegan food more palatable to them. Especially in Elementary school where kids are more likely to be picky.

Look for next year's article "kids in nyc always bring a bagged lunch on Friday and no one can figure out why"

Bad_Mojo posted...

but I don't have a folder called, "AppData," so I don't know where I can dump the file

So the fastest way to find it is most likely to just go ahead and go right click the game on steam, then go Properties > Show local Files.

It's a bigger red flag if your SO expects you to do that.

Reven and Malek weren't their original names as I recall. Revan took the name after he ran off to war, Malek was a nickname because his real name was lame.

3 times in an hour? They've improved the physics of it then.

Giant_Aspirin posted...

nope. Harry Potter and Twilight for promoting non-Christian beliefs. in the year 2022.

Twilight isn't very good, so kindling is a valid use of it.

Thompson posted...

Westerns were extremely popular during the 50s. But come the mid 70s, they were dead.
What killed them?

Space adventures and super heroes. Also, most westerns were painfully formulaic.

Lebronwon posted...

Jonathan Greenblatt, accepted her apology.

Jonathan Greenblatt is NOT THE PRESIDENT OF JEWISH PEOPLE!

WingsOfGood posted...

If that were true, why go after the poor so hard?

Because the poor and middle class can't pay an accountant to shuffle their money enough to make an audit a pain in the ass. Government likes to go the easy route. And in this case it lets the IRS investigative division brag about having the best conviction rates on their cases in the US.

But thank you for proving my point. The government doesn't care about us.

WingsOfGood posted...

What is stimulus checks?

A crock of shit. They gave everyone pittance of what they paid in taxes and people are it up. If they really cared about helping people they would have suspended tax collection for 2020 at the federal level.

WingsOfGood posted...

So you say that suggest we tax the average american less or to excuse why Bezos is getting off scott free?

Tax everyone less, I say.

So... the NHL has the Washington Capitals. The MLB has the Wasington Nationals. For some weird reason the NBA has the Washington Wizards.

The point I'm getting at being "why couldn't they reference they're in the US capital somehow like 2 out of the other three sports teams?"

UnfairRepresent posted...

There is always room for diplomacy, but frankly, we don't trust British diplomacy. I think in recent years British diplomacy has shown that it is absolutely worthless.

For a few centuries British Diplomacy was "stick penis in every part of the planet Spain and France didn't put theirs in first, occasionally fight over the borders of these parts, threaten anyone in the parts we got to with the Royal Navy." Then WWII happened. Now British diplomacy amounts to "do what we want or... Uh... WE'LL TELL AMERICA ON YOU!"

Meanwhile, as an American, I never assume my government would negotiate or inform me of things in good faith, I have no reason to suspect we treat Russia, China , or even our own allies any better.

Femputer posted...

How the...

Bovine growth hormones in milk.

au_gold posted...

Its weird how the right always hails this guy as a great debater.

As someone right leaning, I've always seen Shapiro as an internet troll that takes basic snipes at the left on Twitter. Then again, I never felt the urge to listen to anything he says at length.

Hornezz posted...

You have that right whether you pay for it or not. You are not obligated to watch ads on a public tv channel. Or in a free magazine. Or in a brochure that was put in your mailbox.

Besides, there are more differences between internet ads and the rest. To name a few, advertising in print or on TV never:
- install malware
- run crypto miners
- follow you around online
- construct a profile on you and sell it to others
- increase bandwith, driving up loading times and (potentially) costs

Not to mention the lack of editorial oversight that makes it more likely the ads are misleading, fraudulent or inappropriate. All things considered, I honestly believe ignoring tv/print ads is more unethical than blocking internet ads.

Internet advertisement in the late '90s - early '00s was pretty damn awful with popups everywhere. It wasn't until popup blocking software became popular (and later integrated in most browsers) that this problem was solved.

Well, my major usage of the internet really didn't start until the mid to late 00s. And either way, I think all we've done is highlight that comparing ads on a service that requires our active participation (the internet) versus ads in a product or a service that is passively participated in (like TV) is something of an apples and oranges comparison.

Guide posted...

Does that void it being piracy though? It's okay to admit that sometimes piracy is good.

I don't care one way or the other about piracy. That said, the advertisers pay the content provider to use the time or space. My refusal to acknowledge the time or space they paid for isn't really piracy.

Hornezz posted...

When you watch cable tv, make sure to schedule your bathroom breaks during the movie so you don't miss a second of the commercial breaks. And you better not skip over any ads in the newspaper either!

That's an idiotic take. The fact cable TV has ads is absurd in and of it self WHEN IT ALREADY COSTS SO DAMN MUCH! My mother told me a story of when they first got cable, a relative was over watching a movie, and was rather dismayed there weren't commercials to use to take a leak. Because they were paying to see it on cable. The point being, once upon a time cable didn't have ads.

And I pay for the newspaper, hypothetically anyway, so it's my right as the purchaser of the product to decide which parts of it I read over.

That said, internet ads have become obnoxiously intrusive compared to what they were ten years ago or so. When I was a teenager, ads were usually a banner offering you a product or service to get your attention. Then they morphed into browser slowing monstrosities that had to flash, and play obnoxious videos and automatically expand over the page you're trying to read. Hell, once upon a time the worst ad I could ever see on a non-porn site was for Evony. And only because if someone walked in you had to explain the half naked chick on the side of the screen.