• ripcord
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        9 months ago

        Nothing about the situation should be making anyone laugh.

        • ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝@sopuli.xyz
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          This war is one of the largest tragedies of our years, and none of the soldiers on either side deserve to die in those trenches, but Putin almost getting couped by Prigo, then Prigo getting killed by Putin was pretty funny.

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            Oh those poor Russian soldiers, it’s a tragedy they’re dying!

            Oh wait, no, it’s a great thing they’re dying. Anyone who willingly or “just follows orders” the genocide of another peoples deserves to die.

            The second a soldier gets handed a gun and doesn’t turn it back around on those who armed them and instead attacks innocent people on their orders is the second they lose any value as a human.

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              Yeah, no. Life doesn’t work like that. You can have empathy for Russian soldiers while still hoping they lose the war.

              It’s very much a “sucks to be you, but you shouldn’t be there” situation.

              • Deceptichum@quokk.auBanned from community
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                9 months ago

                No.

                You don’t have empathy for actively participating murderers.

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                  9 months ago

                  you should have empathy for everyone:

                  The ability to identify with or understand another’s situation or feelings

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              That’s not how it works. It is much easier to sit behind a computer and have opinions than saying no in that situation.

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                The reason everything is so shit in the world is because no one will take a stand against those that abuse us.

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                  There’s the question of willingness, and then there’s that of ability. A single person acting independently with no prior planning will quickly get shut down, and the world will be no better for it.

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                It is how it works.

                I have zero respect for people who invade other countries instead of fighting their own.

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                9 months ago

                how one military unit commitment potential war crimes

                Your attitude shows a very simplistic style of thinking about these things.

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    Those Su-30s are probably long gone by now, but they can’t take the glide bombs with them.

    Good time to destroy infrastructure

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      50 miles = 4223989.5 hammer units (rounded)

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      Converting miles to kilometers and vice versa is a fun exercise to do in your head

      The Fibonacci sequence (where every number in the sequence is a sum of the previous 2 numbers) has a ratio of Fib(n)/Fib(n-1) converging to the golden ratio phi (~1.618) as n approaches infinity.

      A mile is 1.609 kilometers, so the ratio of phi is an extremely close approximation of that.

      What this means is you can easily use the Fibonacci sequence to quickly convert from miles to kilometers using adjacent numbers in the sequence

      1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, …

      So you can quickly see something like 5 (or 50, or 500) miles is approximately 8 ( or 80, or 800) kilometers.

      Also, yiu can quickly do easy multiplication or division to figure out other approximate distance.

      Say, for 6 miles. 3 miles ( * 2) = 5km ( * 2) = 10km.

      For 11 miles, 55 miles * 2 = 110 miles / 10 = 11 miles, and 89 km * 2 = ~180 km / 10 = 18 km [actual conversion is 17.703 km, so, pretty close]

      You can do similar approximations by using other multiples.

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    https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2024/08/10/ukraine-is-determined-to-flatten-khalino-air-base-situated-just-50-miles-from-the-front-line-of-ukraines-surprise-invasion-of-russia/

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    3 comments, none visible. Says a lot.