• iridaniotter [she/her]
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    1 year ago

    lol I saw someone suggest nuclear war may only kill as few as 10,000 people. What??

    • SeventyTwoTrillion [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      "well, you see, 99.9% of Russia's nukes don't work,. of course all our nukes work, but we don't consider Russians to be 'people' so they aren't added to the count"

      so-true

      • MORTARS@lemmy.ml
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        1 year ago

        Have you considered the world deserves to die for not sufficiently supporting Ukraine in this time of need

      • tripartitegraph [comrade/them]
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        1 year ago

        Honest to god had a nuclear engineering chud argue to my face that China would lose a hot war to the US because “they don’t spend enough to keep their nukes working”. Literal nuclear grade copium. I laughed at him

      • AbbysMuscles [she/her]
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        1 year ago

        Reminds me of when my funny-clown-hammer - fan friend was enthusing about how American missile defense would protect us from incoming Russian ICBMs. He was saying this in the context of wishing we'd done a Highway of Death to Russian forces nearing Kiev and how we could've gotten away with it.

        • ChairmanSpongebob [he/him]
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          1 year ago

          never mind that Russian missile/rocket tech is better that the US, and always has been lol

    • Trudge [Comrade]@lemmygrad.ml
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      1 year ago

      A single prehistoric nuclear bomb developed by nomads living in the steppes of the North American subcontinent killed over 100,000 people. What are these people on?

      • iridaniotter [she/her]
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        1 year ago

        A single prehistoric nuclear bomb developed by nomads living in the steppes of the North American subcontinent

        peltier-laugh

        If I had to guess, they assume all nukes will only hit other silos.

      • Outdoor_Catgirl [she/her, they/them]
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        1 year ago

        A what? Genuinely what are you referring to with nomads using a nuke? Is this some kind of attempt to mock the amerikkkans that I'm just too dumb to get?

        • Trudge [Comrade]@lemmygrad.ml
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          1 year ago

          I hate explaining jokes since it's not funny, but
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          spoiler

          Steppe - Hanford site where the nuclear bomb was first created and tested is a steppe.
          Nomad - Scientists traveled from all over the country to the Hanford site and returned back months or years later, which is a nomadic migratory pattern.

          I'm just using words that colonizers use to describe native cultures in a description of the Manhattan Project. Quite accurately, in fact. That's the joke haha...

          • AOCapitulator [they/them, she/her]
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            1 year ago

            Oooh, I thought you meant to describe The US like how history books describe barbarian tribes fucking around and breaking everything

            Cause they're just barbarous colonizers

            • Trudge [Comrade]@lemmygrad.ml
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              1 year ago

              To be fair, America is a barbarian tribe fucking around and breaking everything. The absolute lowest amount of cultural, scientific, and social output possible compared to other hegemons throughout history. Well, with the exception of the Brits but I mentioned Americans already so I'm repeating myself.