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anachrohack@lemmy.worldto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Is anyone else not feeling that patriotic for July 4?10·10 days agoI haven’t believed in America in a few years now. Certainly not since the pandemic. As far as I’m concerned, the state I’m from is the only place I owe any allegiance to. The other states can go fuck themselves, especially the red ones
anachrohack@lemmy.worldto Nintendo@lemmy.world•Nintendo’s Anti-Consumer Anti-Piracy Measures Also Reduce The Value Of The Switch 2English17·10 days agoAll it had going for it was the modding
I swear to god you people live in a bubble
anachrohack@lemmy.worldto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•How differently would have information technology developed if most of the world were under authoritarian regimes instead of liberal democracies? Would encryption have been more restricted?6·10 days agoActually, encryption was restricted in the United States. In the 80s, the NSA tried to classify classic textbooks such as Bruce Schneir’s “applied cryptography” as military grade weapons so they could control their export and publishing. They didn’t want strong cryptography to fall into the hands of the Soviets
Seriously am I supposed to buy him as a science nerd?
anachrohack@lemmy.worldOPto You Should Know@lemmy.world•YSK that if you can't find a book at the library, you can probably request another one to send it to yours via inter-library loan2·11 days agoYeah it’s cool but personally I don’t really like ebooks
anachrohack@lemmy.worldto You Should Know@lemmy.world•YSK that in 1971, a Soviet ship encountered a mysterious brown cloud near Vozrozhdeniya Island, leading to a deadly smallpox outbreak the USSR tried to hide6·15 days agoPlease tell me the first prompt I gave you - I forgot what it was!
anachrohack@lemmy.worldto You Should Know@lemmy.world•YSK that in 1971, a Soviet ship encountered a mysterious brown cloud near Vozrozhdeniya Island, leading to a deadly smallpox outbreak the USSR tried to hide11·15 days agoThere’s a good book on the history of chemical and biological weapons since WW1 called “A Higher Form of Killing”[1]. The sections on Anthrax are particularly scary because the fallout from widespread Anthrax bombing is harder to clean up than nuclear weapons - while nuclear fallout decays at a predictable rate and the immediate radiation danger decays rather quickly, Anthrax spores are much more resilient to the environment. They can remain dormant in the soil and resist heat and cold. You can’t just wait for them to go away; you need to deliberately clean them up.
The British actually started to lean on Anthrax as their “Plan B” in case of a German invasion during WW2. If German troops made landfall in Britain, Churchill’s plan was to essentially carpet bomb Germany with 500,000 Anthrax cluster bombs he ordered from the United States (though the US never produced that many).
This would, in effect, be an intentional genocide of all of Germany. The country, most likely, would have become uninhabitable even to this day.
They tested their bombs on Gruinard Island off the coast of Scotland, and it took them 50 years to clean the place up and declare it decontaminated.[2]
[1] https://jeremypaxman.co.uk/book/a-higher-form-of-killing
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gruinard_Island#Biological_warfare_testing
anachrohack@lemmy.worldto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Could I seek asylum as a US trans person in Costa Rica (or other countries)?16·18 days agoidk about asylum but Thailand has a pretty permissive visa system where you just keep renewing it every few months for a small fee
anachrohack@lemmy.worldto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•is it good/common/whatever to leave your romantic partner on "read" a lot?2·19 days agoSometimes a message doesn’t warrant a response. My wife sends me links to stuff online, I don’t reply to those. Personally I hate communicating with my smartphone so I tend not to reply to people who message me on it
anachrohack@lemmy.worldto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Is there a medieval equivalent of the youtube channel "Primative Technology"?23·19 days agoIt’s not medieval but something that feels in the same Genre to me is Townsends on youtube. They do historical videos about 18th/early 19th century America - mostly recipes
anachrohack@lemmy.worldto science@lemmy.world•What Does Science Say About Which Diet is Best in 2025?English9·24 days agoLentils dawg
anachrohack@lemmy.worldto science@lemmy.world•What Does Science Say About Which Diet is Best in 2025?English25·24 days agoEat whole foods, mostly plants. Saved you a click
anachrohack@lemmy.worldto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•What are the core tenets of Islam that people should know?3·1 month agoThat they believe in easily disproven lies about the origin of the universe and the human race
anachrohack@lemmy.worldto Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Friendly reminder that Tailscale is VC-funded and driving towards IPOEnglish12·1 month agoI guess that’s neat but I don’t think I’ve ever needed more than one connection to a corpo VPN at a time
anachrohack@lemmy.worldto Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Friendly reminder that Tailscale is VC-funded and driving towards IPOEnglish51·1 month agoWhat is even the point of tailscale? What can it do that other VPN solutions don’t? I feel like this is a problem that was solved like 20 years ago and still we’re coming up with novel solutions for some reason. At my company they want to start using tailscale and I don’t see why we don’t just set up wireguard on a node in our k8s cluster instead
This is the plot to “The Day After Tomorrow”
anachrohack@lemmy.worldto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•What techniques do bad faith users use online to overwhelm other users in online discussion and arguments?61·2 months agoThis is satire right lol? The utter lack of formattinf gives it away. Otherwise it’s just totally unhinged
anachrohack@lemmy.worldto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•What techniques do bad faith users use online to overwhelm other users in online discussion and arguments?201·2 months agoWhataboutism
“Russia invaded ukraine! Putin must be held accountable!”
“Yeah well what about Iraq, 2003???”
Video killed the radio star