The 1975 spring offensive (Vietnamese: chiến dịch mùa Xuân 1975), officially known as the general offensive and uprising of spring 1975 (Vietnamese: Tổng tiến công và nổi dậy mùa Xuân 1975) was the final North Vietnamese campaign in the Vietnam War that led to the capitulation of Republic of Vietnam. After the initial success capturing Phước Long Province, the North Vietnamese leadership increased the scope of the People's Army of Vietnam's (PAVN) offensive and captured and held the key Central Highlands city of Buôn Ma Thuột between 10 and 18 March. These operations were intended to be preparatory to launching a general offensive in 1976.
Following the attack on Buôn Ma Thuôt, the Republic of Vietnam realized they were no longer able to defend the entire country and ordered a strategic withdrawal from the Central Highlands. The retreat from the Central Highlands, however, was a debacle as civilian refugees fled under fire with soldiers, mostly along a single highway reaching from the highlands to the coast. This situation was exacerbated by confusing orders, lack of command and control, and a well-led and aggressive enemy, which led to the utter rout and destruction of the bulk of South Vietnamese forces in the Central Highlands. A similar collapse occurred in the northern provinces.
Surprised by the rapidity of the ARVN collapse, North Vietnam transferred the bulk of its northern forces more than 350 miles (560 km) to the south in order to capture the South Vietnamese capital of Saigon in time to celebrate their late President Ho Chi Minh's birthday and end the war. South Vietnamese forces regrouped around the capital and defended the key transportation hubs at Phan Rang and Xuân Lộc, but a loss of political and military will to continue the fight became ever more manifest. Under political pressure, South Vietnamese President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu resigned on 21 April, in hopes that a new leader that was more amenable to the North Vietnamese could reopen negotiations with them. It was, however, too late. Southwest of Saigon IV Corps, meanwhile, remained relatively stable with its forces aggressively preventing VC units from taking over any provincial capitals. With PAVN spearheads already entering Saigon, the South Vietnamese government, then under the leadership of Dương Văn Minh, capitulated on 30 April 1975.
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I got tricked by the landlords today. All the tenants got texts saying there'd be a free fall festival today with free booze and food (during most people's work hours lol).
So I show up and not only is there no booze, but they had a fucking :thumb-cop: there with a blue flag license plate on a "Don't even have a single schniff schniff of FETANYL" printed car. They had the doors open so that kids could look inside while being propagandized to. :cringe:
I took the meager popcorn servings they had, thankfully using the super cheap artificial shit that's accidentally vegan, and then busted out of there before the pig got a peak at my tiddy crack.
I've started watching msnbc every morning
when did american news networks get so psychotic, endlessly talking about the war against communist and how we need to destroy everyone in order to spread our 'democratic' values? was it always THIS bad?
idk. The 24 hour news cycle started back in 91 when the US invaded Iraq the first time, and it was just 24/7 images of Baghdad blowing up and tracer fire fruitlessly trying to take down US bombers. So it started out pretty bloodthirsty and evil. I assume it's just gotten worse since then. Like Maddow and other liberal talking heads have been pushing RussiaGate every waking minute for years leading up the war with Ukraine, and now it seems like they've effortlessly pivoted to China and somehow managed to make people give a shit about the plight of Taiwan.
Yes. If you look old news stuff it was probably worse but cocane and slurs were legal then so it was a mixed bag
Haven’t showered or made my bed in 3 days, clothes chair is out of hand, only want sad music, and have an inescapable sense of dread hanging over me most of the time.
Love having depression.
come on go take a shower, if you're depressed you can just like, sit in there for a while
it'll be warm and you'll get to feel like you did something
also who cares about making a bed, only tryhards do that
I never make my bed, but you should listen to sad music in the shower.
ClothesChairAnxiety
:meow-hug: take care of yourself today, your surrounds tomorrow. one step, then another. You'll feel better. I hope you feel better.
Before /r/CTH collapsed, we had the bookclub and throughout 2020 we read George Jackson's 'Blood in my eye' and Huey Newton's 'Revolutionary Suicide'. Jackson specifically called the United States fascist. I was at the time a bit uncomfortable by that line of thought.
Pointless as it may be to continue the discourse on whether America is now, has been, or when it finally turned fascist. I am at the point where it is very obvious there is no "turning back" from said fascism as it is the blood that pumps through the state and organs of government. Whether it was ushered in 2016 or we've been fascist since the likes of Reagan, George W. Bush, etc. We have careened off the cliff, we've basically been falling in slow motion. The question is when will we start picking up speed.
I turn on the radio and all I hear about is the obsession with crime - what has happened and when will it happen to you (but most scary is when will it happen to YOUR children). The preoccupation with property crime, and children are property in the eyes of these "worried talking heads", dominates the discourse in local radio and newspaper rags.
Lina Hildago, for example, hasn't done a noteworthy job as county judge but somehow the newspapers and the rest of the media have laid the rise in crime at her feet.
This country is fascist. The cops control the state. The majority of people wanna be cops. Your bosses disdain you and they wish you'd die quietly at your desk. The Supreme Court is dominated by fascists. Half the states what to redefine what "democracy" means.
Just burn it all down.
Lina Hildago, for example, hasn’t done a noteworthy job as county judge but somehow the newspapers and the rest of the media have laid the rise in crime at her feet.
And crime is actually down in Harris County!
https://equalityalec.substack.com/p/the-houston-chronicle-and-fascism
thanks to John Oliver (lol), I know that crime has fallen in 30 of the past 31 years, and in each of those years except one, people think it rose.
Hah. Shit even I took their argument at face value - i did see that gun homicides are up and that’s thanks to Gregg Abott not her policies.
One of the things that radicalized me was those kind of boomer memes that were like "Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross" or that boiled down Umberto Eco list everyone loves. What these entirely lack is historical and political context to explain US fascism and this is why they will never be effective. Their thesis is that fascism is coming and you should prepare, not that fascism is here and it's time to fight. USians just accept that millions of them go through the penal system because it's been that way for sixty years. USians just accept that our "democracy" is a joke because that's all we've ever known it to be. Jackson breaks that down better than anyone I've read because he traces the emergence of US fascism as a part of the broader emergence of fascism and he is very blunt that it is fascism when other intellectuals shy away from calling the spade a spade. It's why Jackson is so suppressed and most USians refuse to engage with him seriously because it would mean they are sitting in the Third Reich shrugging their shoulders, if not actively helping it!
Turned down an invitation a friend's party because her friend's spouse who is a cop is also gonna be there, and she got kinda mad at me : /
Like, she already knows I'm a communist, did she really think I would be down to just casually hang-out with a cop?
Why would you even invite a cop to a party? 1.) who wants an asshole with a gun at a place where people are drinking? 2.) who wants a short tempered spouse beater with a gun at a place where people are drinking? and 3.) What is the roid monster going to do if/when someone lights up a joint?
there's a "nuclear war simulation" on /r/interestingasfuck right now and while it concludes that nuclear annihilation is "bad" it only estimates 600 million dead over a year
I am sorry but there's no way in fucking hell that is even remotely accurate. Idk what drugs this simulator is on. It says the WARM parts of the earth will be -20 degrees celsius.
It's extremely disturbing that "Not attacking Russia because it would end the world is cowardice" has become a fairly common opinion online. Like people will just straight up say that we should invade Russia and that the threat of global annihilation is Russian propaganda or appeasement or something.
Most estimates I've seen for a modern general nuclear exchange put the death count at like 4-6 billion within a year, with more in the following years.
Apparently nuclear winter may be somewhat overblown, though.
1000 humans remain alive and they give birth to babies with birth defects :agony-wholesome:
ok, but i know people can survive those temperatures (if they have good shelter, with heating and electricity and all that, and some die anyways) so it isn't a big deal.
idk what i'm talking about, but this all feels right to me
more seriously, nuclear war kills more than that in the initial blasts. hiroshima and nagasaki killed 200k, with weaker bombs that were hitting less densely populated areas. with hundreds of bombs hitting every single place that could remotely be called a population center? no shot. the only hope for humanity if one side starts nuking everything is that they aren't retaliated against on the principle of "what do i care, i'm dead anyways" and the aggressor lives with some infrastructure intact and enough people to repopulate the earth when 90% of them die because of the impacts on global trade and the climate.
honestly that might be the only way humanity isn't extinct in 200 years
ok, but i know people can survive those temperatures (if they have good shelter, with heating and electricity and all that, and some die anyways) so it isn’t a big deal.
how will they have heating and electricity with all that emp and the collapse of global supply chains tho
EMP isn't as much of a factor with nukes detonated at an altitude that maximizes damage to structures on the ground. It'd still be a factor, but the EMP would miss plenty of stuff. To properly make use of EMP effects you want to detonate at a pretty high altitude.
The most populated places on Earth are in warm places, so really the problem is staying cool and food supply.
i mean, we're talking about potentially thousands of nukes being launched, wouldn't nuclear winter be relevant, even if there are large chunks of the world where no bombs go off?
Keep on kicking hexbearers, and you just might see the UK collapse in your lifetime
on one hand lizz truss is an awful politician on the other hand she's adorable and I'm gay for her and can fix her
Did you catch the chapo episode where there does seem to be strong anecdotal support for her being a soft dom and using her butt to intimidate political rivals?
Kanye: "Piers, Piers, Piers, how much money are you worth"
Piers Morgan: "Not as much as you sadly"
Kanye: "Exactly, so take my advice maybe you'll get richer"
This is how capitalists think of each other, imagine what they think of you
It is 2016 the Tory Prime Minister is resigning in shame. It is 2019 the Tory Prime Minister is resigning in shame. It is 2022 the Tory Prime Minister is resigning in shame. It is 2022 the Tory Prime Minister is resigning in shame oh shit wait, again?
hey everybody don’t mind me I’m just new here I’ve got a lot to say about myself about, well, you’ll find that out soon enough. remember that george w bush did 9/11 and communism will win on love island
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in extremely revolutionary mon mothma voice they think I’m just a social democrat, but I’m actually [shifty eyes, leans closer] a democratic socialist
it's a disneyplus show, and it might be genuinely the most leftist show on television rn. very acab, a guy just reading theory to the main character for a few minutes, banality of fascism type stuff.
showrunner did michael clayton if you saw that, as well as a lot of work on nightcrawler,
that was written and directed by dan gilroy. the gilroy brothers wrote most of andor so far, and tony gilroy worked on nightcrawler with dan. (tony gilroy being the showrunner)
can't recommend the show enough, best slop i've had in years. great spectacle, but also a lot of substance
those are the 3 currently airing shows i'm watching, and all 3 are fantastic. i'd rank them andor>gundam>chainsaw man, but that's just because i read chainsaw man already and the anime (though very good, and gorgeously animated) has a lot less character
science diagrams that look like shitposts
https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/VI1fXd7cJz.png
Goddammit. Two years ago I would've known what that meant, now it's all sluiced out my brain like every other skill I stopped being able to use.
OK so there's a battery and a... capacitor? in parallel with a resistor on the... positive? side of the open circuit, with some... diodes? equalising the voltage drop between the bat/cap when the circuit is closed by the heart. Don't quote me on most of this
It's a defibrillator.
It’s a defibrillator.
I did figure that that was what it was, because I have no idea why else you would include a heart shape in an electrical circuit.
So the thing you're calling a "battery" is a genericized power-source logo. Like you can use a battery for that, but it's just representing where the current originates from/returns to upon completing the circuit. There are no diodes in this diagram; one thing that I had actually correctly guessed about this is that it's got a bunch of switches in it, & those things that I think you're calling diodes are actually push-button switches (I did have to look that up again though).
So the way this seems to work, is that you hit the first two switches in the circuit (the ones on the top & bottom of the capacitor) to build up capacitance in the circuit between it & the heart to a certain level; presumably you want to induce a specific amount of voltage at a specific time, rather than running the entire capacity of the power-source through the organ. Then you flip the switch that activates the leg of the circuit that passes through the heart. This circuit has an inductor, because when you combine an inductor & a capacitor in a circuit, it filters out Alternating Current, or transforms it into Direct Current.
You probably don't want alternating current to go through somebodies heart because it constantly flips the direction the electrons are travelling in from the source to the ground. You would be, to speak on it with a bit of artistic license, essentially electronically sawing through the organ if you had it run as AC. So, not something you want here, presumably.
Rip my electrical knowledge lmao, thanks for the clarification!
Kinda incredible we can just
restartde-febrile a heart like that. Sometimes.
it's honestly making me question the rumors. killing the queen and unapologetically destroying Britain--then quitting--has major :top-use-words: energy.
