Ragnor

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[–] Ragnor@feddit.dk 3 points 2 months ago

Thanks, that is corrected.

[–] Ragnor@feddit.dk 24 points 2 months ago

The frontline is basically stationary - a tiny Russian advancement - and has been so for a long time.

The economy of the UN who are supporting Ukraine is in much better shape than the Russian economy though, and it is easier for us to keep things up than it is for Russia.

Russia wants to live in a parallel reality where they aren't losing.

[–] Ragnor@feddit.dk 18 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

"America is blessed with ... the strongest friendships ..."

That was probably true at some point. He definitely fucked that up.


"Four months in a row, the number of illegal aliens admitted and entering our country has been zero"

Is that like how he stopped the spread of covid by ending the testing?


"In a period of just seven months, I have ended seven ‘un-endable’ wars"

Which 'un-endable wars' did he end? I can't think of any peace where he played a significant role.


"Everyone says that I should get the Nobel Peace Prize"

JFC...


"I’m telling you that if you don’t get away from the ‘green energy’ scam, your country is going to fail. If you don’t stop people that you’ve never seen before that you have nothing in common with, your country is going to fail."

I'm just going to repeat my last statement: JFC...

If anything, his willful ignorance is going to make everyone fail.


"The entire globalist concept of asking successful, industrialized nations to inflict pain on themselves and radically disrupt their entire societies must be rejected completely and totally — and it must be immediate."

That is actually right... Stop the effing fossil fuel consumption!


"Together, let us defend free speech and free expression. Let us protect religious liberty, including for the most persecuted religion on the planet today — it’s called Christianity."

I think that is Islam. There are 1.8 billion Muslims, and the hate they receive from many is way greater than the crimes that the few commit. A lot of people also forget the circumstances that many immigrants came from, and underestimate the effect that the hate has on people over time. Jobs are harder to find in western countries if you look like a Muslim for instance, and of course that shows in the crime statistics.

For the record, I'm a blond Danish atheist.

[–] Ragnor@feddit.dk 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That doesn't make the problem go away. Increasing the hostility only incentivizes them.

From a Dane.

[–] Ragnor@feddit.dk 23 points 4 months ago

It isn't tone deaf. People are free to decide for themselves if they want to participate or not. If someone is okay with it they are not doing any damage to those who don't feel like doing it. The same goes the other way around.

[–] Ragnor@feddit.dk 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I disagree with your statement about quality. For instance, I'd much rather have a German car than an American one. America doesn't really make things any more anyway, most of it has been outsourced to China or other countries. The manufacturing expertise has mostly left the US. See for instance some of the most recent videos done by Smarter Every Day on YouTube where he talks about how hard it is to make a purely American made product.

What they have in the US is money so they can buy stocks and other things like that, so they make money off of things that others make.

They also make a ton of money off of everybody using the dollar as the global trade currency. That means that they can print a lot more money in the US without it causing as much inflation as it would otherwise, and the money they print are released into the US economy. They basically get to tax the holdings of companies all over the world that way.

[–] Ragnor@feddit.dk 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Read the article...

[–] Ragnor@feddit.dk 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

There are three small words that a lot of people need to use more often:

"I think that..."

Being able to distinguish between opinions and things that you can prove is right is important for debates. The goal is to reach the best conclusion, and you cannot do that if you base the conclusion on falsehoods.

[–] Ragnor@feddit.dk 10 points 6 months ago

To me it appears that he didn't sit on it at first, but then changed his mind and sat down. I'm convinced that what you saw as him falling onto it is because he sat on it and then the legs buckled. The buckling caused him to fall further back, because the legs were stronger when they were straight.

[–] Ragnor@feddit.dk 2 points 6 months ago

It's actually more because of the ICC chief who lost access to his mail, as is described in the article. We cannot risk that happening to our officials.

[–] Ragnor@feddit.dk 4 points 6 months ago

If I got a warning about prompt injections, I would check my browsers add-ons and remove anything that I didn't absolutely trust. Your email likely contains a lot of personal info that can be used for identity theft and other related things.

[–] Ragnor@feddit.dk 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Same here.

I learned to read at 3, and taught myself English before starting in school by reading all the text I came across on my Amiga, recognizing words that were similar to the Danish ones and slowly picking up more and more.

I also got a My Little Professor at 3, a reverse calculator that gave problems to solve. My mom taught me addition, subtraction and multiplication, and my mothers "subtraction is the opposite of addition" was enough for me to figure division out. I did the hardest problems in all four categories in my head, with numbers with up to 4 digits, before starting in school too.

I never did homework in school, only things that had to be turned in. I always had my hand up in class, because my innate curiosity and mental capacity meant that I could figure things out as the questions were written on the blackboard. The lax attitude stuck. *Edit: It wasn't because I didn't try to get things that required more work from me. I always asked for harder problems when doing work in class, because I always finished the problems we were given to do while in class and finish as homework before the class was done.

My biggest problem growing up was bullying. I didn't share interests with hardly any of my classmates, since I was at least 3 years ahead of them in my mental development. My best friend was 10 years old when I was 7, and he and I played Magic together because his classmates couldn't figure it out. My glasses, small stature, and the fact that I changed schools twice didn't help.

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