Maybe not the strangest but here are 2 from my vacation to London last month:
2 women walking past. One of them says:
“I talk a lot of shit, but my fart is bigger than my shit.”
Then in Covent Garden I met a very polite drug dealer:
Excuse me, do you need any weed or coke? No, well then have a very good evening.
Nice guy, big smile.
What year is this? This was a scare back in the 1970.
Un-fortify the wheat now!
/s
Did killing Cesar at the end of Fallout New Vegas teach us nothing?
The war machine is too far along to be stopped easily.
Or if WW1 is your poison:
Initially, Wilhelm II wanted to halt the German mobilization, hoping for a peaceful resolution. However, Moltke insisted it was too late to stop the complex mobilization process once it had been set in motion. He argued that it was “like a wound-up clock” that couldn’t simply be unwound. His words essentially conveyed that the mobilization machinery, once started, would continue inexorably towards war, effectively removing any possibility of reversal.
They shouldn’t be uncomfortable. Make sure you’ve set them correctly.
Hitler’s generals we’re largely good generals. Many came from the Prussian school of war.
The Allies didn’t try to assassinate Hitler because Hitler was causing so many military blunders by thinking he knew better than his generals and overruling them.
If they don’t win then they can’t pay it back. If anything it gives an incentive to lend them more.
The Iron Bank.
British Private Schools:
Fagging was a traditional practice in British public schools and also at many other boarding schools, whereby younger pupils were required to act as personal servants to the eldest boys.[1][2][3] Although probably originating earlier, the first accounts of fagging appeared in the late 17th century.[4]: 23 Fagging sometimes involved physical abuse[4]: 23–25 and/or sexual abuse.[5] Although lessening in severity over the centuries, the practice continued in some institutions until the end of the 20th century.[4]: 23–25
The discussion of nuclear power, much like the discussion of communism, is met with entrenched positions on Lemmy.
Break them up!
This was my gut feel. Like the “Trip Wire” forces NATO members deploy along the Russian border States.
Why are tetrapacks so good?
I assumed they were terrible as laminated paper can’t be recycled?
As I write this I start to think this might be one of those things I learned in high school that might be total BS.
This statue is is Budapest:
I’ve never really understood the 3D gun printing use case.
Yes, they can fire bullets but bullets are illegal where guns are illegal.
Am I missing something?
There were cases where decommissioned guns could be bought in the UK (firing pins removed). Gangs were recommissioning these guns by adding the removed components.
However, where do the bullets come from?
Didn’t we learn from the pandemic that most toilet paper is produced with country borders due to high shipping costs?
Yes, no one seems to raise this anymore. AI to me has always been something akin to computer sentience.
Things like ‘self healing’ systems are being badeged as AI when they’re little more than an application load balancer.
What was the behind the scenes deal on this? I remember it happening but not the details
LinkedIn didn’t originally have a feed. Once it was implemented more and more people started using it as face book.
In the last year I’ve seen:
A video of 3 people killed by a lightening strike, with some weird business wisdom tag line underneath.
Many, many people arguing about the existence of Israel.
Lots of anti woke “it wasn’t like that in my day, bunch of snow flakes” comments.
Back in the day you’d have to join a group to post something. The groups were all related to business concepts I.e. Dev Ops in Asia.
Now it’s a shit show that should be avoided.
I only use it for job adverts these days.
Same. I thought I’d go down a road at night for cover. Then a Death Claw appears out of nowhere behind me.
Who decides what is hurtful though?
If it is the person delivering the leaflets then a Nazi postal worker can decide not to deliver postal votes as they see democracy as hurtful to their cause.
They’ve got nukes though, and plenty of conventional fire power (compared to Ukraine when it was invaded).
They need to invest in a non US lead command structure as that’s all using US tech and personnel.