supersquirrel

You do not demonstrate or indicate any mechanism whatsoever that would support this claim.

I don't need to, try actually talking to an indigenous person, evolutionary biologist or an environmental scientist and if they can stand talking to you for more than 5 minutes they may explain it to you.

You also haven't shown how being able to communicate is a disadvantage, or how NOT being able to communicate helps learn new concepts?

I don't need to, that isn't my point, my point is you are trying to take a shortcut to intelligence and communication that involves hurling empty symbols back and forth at strangers, that will never lead anywhere unless you and that stranger start to develop a unique language specific to that context that honors and remembers that context... and yes we can do that right now but guess what makes human language such a gift to us that it was passed down to us and entrusted in our stewardship? Do you not see how you are spitting on that gift with your words?

Yes, you can always plant a new 200 year old tree if you cut the 200 year old tree down... but you will have to wait 200 years to experience the true complexity and power that is latent in the seed again.

If you think I am arguing for NOT understanding each other you aren't actually listening to what I am saying, what I am saying is you are lying to yourself about being able to convey anything once you reach the point you desire and admire and seem to think would be a highwater mark for communication and intelligence.

edit another thought on why I used everything here, you are right I was vague and gesturing at like... everything but that really is the point, there is no intelligence without a fecund context in which to weave it together and that requires diversity in as many different axis as possible to increase the likelihood of it being possible in a given context.

this way

Too bad the citizens of my country didn't fucking wait for the timeline they want and assumed could demand.... and history will remember the worthless, genocidal war criminals that occupied the halls of power when those halls of power were being DIRECTED by normal every day voters in as clear as possible terms to stand the fuck down and stop the genocide of innocent Palestinians PERIOD... before it keeps spiralling into a much larger hell where there will be many more bodies of Palestinians, Jews and who knows who else will become the next target given the extremely precarious nature of geopolitics at this juncture and how conflicts evolve into larger and larger wars in ways that don't interface with rationality.

There are things worse than death, like spending the last 10 seconds of your life realizing that people will never forget your name as your are enveloped by a sense in the deepest fibers of your being that if there is an afterlife you aren't going to the good part of it.

The silence by the leaders of my country is deafening

In no uncertain words this is pathetic and worse I suspect highly illegal in any functioning legal system still capable of justice.

There’s been some news that Russia maybe have hit a wall in Ukraine.

The Wall (domestically produced in Ukraine with initial help of Denmark)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2S22_Bohdana

Let this be a lesson to other European nations afraid of Russia or other foreign militaries attempting a ground invasion, you don't need to turn your country into a fascist police state that is paranoid of the immigrants that make your country vibrant, diverse and fun. That will lose the war far before it has even begun.

You need the ability to crank out 155mm self propelled artillery and a fuck ton of 155mm shells, and a society that can resist the urge to become fascists who suck at fighting war.

I mean I also imagine the drone tactics of Ukraine have kept innovating and increasing in effectiveness, I don't think an authoritarian dictatorship is ever going to be able to treat its young bored creative people kindly enough to see what they are capable of when they want to fight for you so Russia just is never going to win that competition in its current state.

However, that advantage could never be capitalized on decisively without distributed, organic 155mm artillery support able to provide an existential threat to any condensed, heavily entrenched or concentrated mechanized forces attempting to launch an offensive operation or cover an existentially threatening breakthrough in Russian frontlines by the Ukranians that puts Russian supply lines in a "check" (to use a chess term) and forces them to respond to Ukraine instead of the other way around.

If you don't understand why I posted a 155mm SPG and not drone weapons, it is that these artillery pieces place Russian mobile SAM assets in uneasy danger even when they are ~50 miles from the front, this fundamentally changes how Russia can deploy decisive anti-air cover in critical corridors of manuever which although these large SAM vehicles are focused on taking out manned fighter aircraft, the presence of them of course allows other anti-aircraft assets to operate in the area and deny Ukraine full exploitation of its advantage in drone tactics.

It is crucial to understand that just the plausible threat that these Bohdanas are lurking not far behind Ukranian frontlines utterly changes the strategic calculus even in places Ukraine doesn't have a Bohdana anywhere in the area because maybe they do and the artillery shells just haven't landed on your head yet.... losing your SAM cover and the loss of operational confidence can be nearly strategic loss given the extreme value of them to protecting the rest of a concentrated mechanized force facing another mechanized force because it places ALL of those other forces in danger of a strategic defeat from an air counter attack that exploits a temporary window so long as Ukraine can field even a single battle ready fighter bomber (prime example being a mechanized armor force attempting a river crossing in an area that is under threat of 155mm artillery threat vs not under realistic threat of it).

also, while it has been proven that making a drone into a peer-to-peer battlefield weapon is effective, it is never going to be as effective as using that drone to spot for mobile 155mm artillery if it is available for fire support, which underlines how the role of 155mm SPG is so strategically decisive in the favor of Ukraine

whattt?

Also, my heart truly does go out to rural america no matter what percentage does or doesn't deserve this, the next 10 years are going to be brutal for rural america and as much as I can't resist poking fun at it, my heart is heavy.

The hospital, healthcare and education deserts are going to eat people alive, and far quicker than I think people are used to shit hitting the fan in the US.

Oh that is horrible and totally against my values!

puts Dole goggles on again in apparent contradiction to the last words out of my mouth

What is it about people in Central America and their culture that makes them so unwilling to work hard like the rest of us? I think we need to impress upon them a more 'Murican work ethic for their own good. Look at how much of a mess their country is and they all want to come here anyways because they are jealous of the kind of society hardworking white christians made.

takes off Dole goggles again

It is just too bad tragedies happen all over the world sigh