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stoy,

As a Swede I read news about the American prez ellection while on the bus home from work, and I just get madder and madder, then I suddenly realize that I am not a US citizen and don’t even live in the US, and I relax…

…then I remember that we are part of NATO now…

stoy,

Why would that ever not be the case?

stoy, (edited )

Looking at the U.S. political situation, fascism seems to be getting closer every day.

In fact, if you look at a lot of other western nations, fascist ideas are springing up all over.

If feels like the world is even more crazy than it used to be, and the current period of crazy started in 2016 with Brexit, then Trumps win snd presidency, rolling into covid, then Trump got ejected, Russia intencified the war in Ukraine, the Hamas shat the bed and now Israel is going batshit insane, oh and during the two last years, two social media sites have decided to just oblitirate most of their good content generators, X is just fucking over everything that was twitter, and Reddit is slowly imploding since the apicalypse.

I just had a look on Wikipedia, and damn there has been a LOT of shit going down since the start of 2016…

Hotel Keycards And Dawn Dish Soap Used In 737 Max Production As Boeing Fails 33 FAA Safety Checks (jalopnik.com)

Boeing is having a rough time of it right now, with parts falling off its planes left, right and center. Just last week, a wheel came loose and smashed through a car, and earlier this year the door from a 737 Max aircraft broke off mid-flight. That mid-air disaster sparked an audit from the Federal Aviation Administration, which...

stoy,

The hotel keycard was used to check seals of doors, the dishsoap was used to lubricate the door seals to make them fit better.

The documentation about the steps were vauge and badly documented, neither of which I want in the documentation for building aircraft.

stoy,

Here is the GOG link:

www.gog.com/en/game/riven

stoy,

Unreal Tournament 2004, with few players it turns its normal frantic and fast paced gameplay into a suspensfull slower experience which is awesome.

I think you can get it on the internet archive as it stopped being sold on gog and steam this spring.

OpenRA - Do you remember the old classic series Command & Conquer ?

OpenRA takes the old original game, updates the controls to modern RTS controls, add new ai to play against, add support for modern resolutions and adds a good internet multiplayer system, all of this for free!

OpenRA can be downloaded att openra.net

stoy,

I saw a documentary about a guy trying to find a “humane” execution method, he came to the conclusion that suffocation with nitrogen gas probably was the least bad.

It doesn’t trigger a feeling of panic as CO2 poisoning does, you simply drift away in a hypoxic high filled with mild confusion without the dread.

People on both sides of the death penalty issue thought is was barbaric, proponents of the death penalty thought it was wrong to remove the suffering from the person, they felt it would be wrong to let say a serial killer just drift away in a high, while opponents of the death penalty felt it was barbaric as it would lessen the felt impact of taking a life and might cause governments to reinstate the death penalty.

It was an interesting documentary…

stoy,

It is still around, only the buzz around it died

stoy, (edited )

She is so hard that she needs a bulletproof vest protecting her from the hard society she enjoys so much

stoy,

If you have uncooked juice that has in anyway been in contact with the raw chicken it should be discarded, it is not safe.

How our drinking water could come from thin air (www.bbc.com)

Southern Nevada is in the grip of one of the worst droughts it has experienced in recorded history, leading to water shortages and restrictions on use. So, in water-stressed areas such as this, the prospect of wringing water from thin air is an appealing prospect. And it is exactly what Cody Friesen is trying to do....

stoy,

Sigh, this is just a dehumidifier, not a solution to the water crisis, look up Fontus or Waterseer, or just google “water from air scam”.

The technology can’t work where it is needed, and isn’t needed where it can work.

It needs humidity, but if you are in a humid area then you will have access to water that you can filter/treat into drinking water for far less cost than this stupid idea, and in dry areas there isn’t any significant water in the air to extract, making it far more efficient to truck water in.

stoy,

This is terrible, old people need to retire and let the next generation take their jobs and pay.

This obviously means that old people need to be able to retire.

As it stands now, I doubt I’ll ever experience the golden years for myself…

stoy,

It was new and exciting, you discovered all the interesting stuff you could do with it.

Before the internet, you only compared yourself to your friends in terms of skill, it fostered healthy competition that drove your skills to be better.

Then came the internet, and it was great, specialist forums showed up, with roughly a few hundred members, may be a few thousand members for the really big ones, these were still small communities and you still could compete with your skill in a friendly manner.

Then came the big generic social media sites, and they were great, you could talk to anyone, share experiences with a truly gigantic audience and browse a never ending stream of content.

Then the big generic social media sites stayed, and their members created groups about the same thing that they used to go to specialist forums for a few years earlier. Why would you go to a specialist forum when you had a social media group available with just one click?

Then the admins of the old forums saw that users left the forums, and after a while with few updates and fewer new users, they saw that it wasn’t worth it anymore, and closed the doors.

Over at the social media group, user’s no longer competed with their skill against a small group of their peers, but against a truly gigantic group with people many, many times better than themselves, this have and will continue to kill enthusiasm for their work.

Then a switch flipped in the social media sites, content is no longer sorted by timelines or likes, but what drives engagement, still this seemed fine, as people obviously enjoyed engaging content, but trouble was brewing…

Members soon learned that they could game the system, the social media sites all uses a complex system to determine the best way to display content for maximum engagement, and members learned what made the system promote their content.

Somewhere along the line, sponsors came in, and started paying for ads in the content, then they started demanding that the rest of the content outside of their ads also conform to their standards, this made the content even more generic and formulaic, few content creators dared to be too different.

This is about where we are now, everybody is talking, but few are saying something.

stoy,

Heavy day at work?

What’s the weather like in Moscow?

You know what also would have saved lives, and reduced tensions?

Not going to war in the first place, the fact is that Putte was the one to attack and start this whole shitshow means that Russia is in the wrong, not Ukraine.

stoy, (edited )

I thought that one was solved decades ago;

The internet is a series of tubes

Is There a Way to Officially Disable a Lemmy Account?

I would like to know if there is an “official” way to set an account as disabled. For now, I am plan on posting this on Asklemmy, changing my password to some random string that I won’t remember, and then logging out. If I’d like to come back later, there’s a chance of my account being revived through the “forgot...

stoy,

That’s fair, I can see how I was too harsh here, sorry OP!

How do you get rid of bad neighbors?

So our neighbors have been a growing problem for a few months now. They seem to be a flop house for six or seven people, most of them look high all day. They go out and Rev a Harley at 3am, they burn plastic been our houses in a fire pit, they have a new dog every two weeks because they keep getting out and getting hit by...

stoy,

Human memories are notoriously unreliable, and physical evidence, like video footage SHOULD ABSOLUTELY be worth more than a person’s word.

stoy, (edited )

There is only one conspiracy theory that I believe in.

It concerns the submarine incident in Hårsfjärden here in Sweden.

During the cold war, a foreign submarine was detected inside a military protection area in Hårsfjärden in Sweden.

This was assumed by the media and government to be a Soviet sub, but after watching a documentary about the incident I disagree.

The sub was never caught, officially it escaped, but I believe it was let go.

Ok, so a foreign sub was detected inside a military protection area near a Swedish naval base, this much is true, the navy closed the entrences and exits to the area with mines and nets, they dropped depth charges over the suspected sub, but the sub refused to surface.

This is what a documentary I have watched explain as facts pointing away from a Soviet submarine, and towards a NATO submarine.

During the incident, several audio recordings were made by hydrophones, the Swedish military claims that they recorded the sounds of a Soviet sub, but independent experts are less sure.

On one of the recordings a signal is intercepted, the Swedish military have claimed that the signal came from one of the sonars used to listen for the sub that malfunctioned, but the fault is increadibly unlikely to happen, and a retired officer incharge of training the sonar operators at the time is on record saying that the fault would be impossible to happen during normal operation.

The signal also shows another fact, it carried a subsignal from the electrical system onboard the submarine, and from that subsignal, it is possible to determine that the frequency of the electrical system used by the transmitting entity was not used by Soviet submarines.

Then we have the paint, during the depth charge attacks a yellow/green color spot was spotted on the surface, this was at the time one of the standard distress signals of NATO submarine, this spot was promptly lost and never investigated.

Then we have the weird orders given to a manned sea mine station at one of the exits of the area, standard practise was that the station was given direct permission to blow the mines if they had a verified target, this order was given every night, but one evening the station was reminded by their commander that could not blow the mines unless given permission.

Well, the permission didn’t arrive at the normal time, so when they heard a submarine passing their line of mines that night they could do nothing, hours after the sub passed they got permission, as they did the next day as well.

The Swedish millitary’s surpreme commander’s diary are missing the pages for this date.

There was also wittness statements taken and a drawing produced by wittnesses who saw a submarine in the area just before the incident, the drawing they made has the profile of a West German submarine. This is obviously unreliable, but still interesting.

So, what do I think?

That a foreign sub was inside the military protection area is documented, and not disputed, however I don’t believe it was a Soviet submarine, I believe it was a NATO submarine.

Why would NATO want to do this?

NATO felt at the time that Sweden did not have the capabillity to prevent Soviet submarines from entering our waters, the year before in 1981, a Soviet submarine ran aground deep inside Swedish waters just outside one of the largest Naval bases in Sweden. I believe that NATO wanted to scare the Swedish people to create a political will to strengthen the Swedish naval defence.

I like this conspiracy theory, it has zero impact on life and politics today, and it feels kinda fun to keep it alive.

Now, in the end I must admit a big weakness of this theory…

Where are the crew of the submarine, and why have they not spoken about this?

It has been 40+ years since the incident, it seems remarkable for there to have been zero people from the crew leaking some details about the incident, especially with the internet…

I can see three explanations for this:

  1. There never was a submarine in Hårsfjärden, it was all hysteria, the recordings made are from Swedish naval ships that have been misstakenly identified, the signal likwse.
  2. The sub was a Soviet sub, in my experience Russia has often been isolated due to the language barrier, so finding the crew could be impossible, this means that they might not even realize that people are talking about that specific mission at all, and if there have been leaks it is possible that they went unnoticed by the western world.
  3. The sub was a NATO sub, the crew was orderd not to talk about it, and later forgot about it, this seems unlikely as I doubt being depth charged is something you would forget, still even being ordered to silence I doubt that would stop any leaks over 4 decades, it might be that there are leaks but they never got any attention.

I don’t have the answer, and I am not going to pretend I do, I believe that it was a NATO submarine, but if you have more info, please post it, I’d be happy to be wrong if I can verify the facts.

Here are a few links to articles about the subject, the YT video is the Swedish documentary I am basing this comment on.

youtu.be/8Gyi8WTHXAM

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hårsfjärden_incident

en.wikipedia.org/…/Swedish_submarine_incidents

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_submarine_S-363

stoy,
  1. Physics is a fact. Belief in it is irrelevent.
  2. Hobbit is a name for a fictional creature, there is nothing to prevent reuse of the name for some real creature of the next 1000 years.
stoy,

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