Warl0k3

Explains why the cinematics have been so lacklustre recently...

Congrats, you got the joke!

You're just a very FOCUSED furry

And they're not a nuclear power. Like, pointedly not. We made real sure of that.

Tbh we probably already have that. Five Eyes is wildly held to control 50% of the TOR nodes, bitcoin cant be that much less of a priority.

IDK, this seems like the DoD actually doing their jobs (for once).We've given tons of anti-missile systems to ukraine. Deploying THAAD to a conflict where we can't actively deploy US troops alongside it is a serious intelligence risk, and it doesn't fill a particular role thats missing in Ukraine. Russia hasn't been using ballistic missiles of the size THAAD would even be effective against. Patriot, MANPAD, aerial launched and even hera systems have been extremely effective, and NATO continues to supply those systems for Ukraine.

This seems... idk, ideal? Lets use our cleanest & most energy dense means of power generation for our most frivolously expanding waste of energy. Unless we give microsoft authority over the DOE, which we aren't (maybe IBM tho, they seem like they can be trusted...), I'm not really seeing a downside to this.

Why not just block me, then? You're the one telling other people to "Don't bother. Trust me." when I comment on totally unrelated to you posts, and then threatening me when I call you out for your behavior.
That's not just not okay, dude.

That's literal harassment.

From the lemmy.world TOS:

Before using the website, remember you will be interacting with actual, real people and communities. Lemmy.World is not a place for you to attack other people or groups of people. Just because you disagree with someone doesn't give you the right to harass them. Discuss ideas and be critical of principles. Show the respect you desire to receive.

For my part in this, I'm sorry? I don't entirely know what for, but evidently you're hurting, and that really was never my intent.

See, this is what I'm talking about. You're not an authority on the topic at hand, you're an authority figure within this community. Why are you pivoting to passive-aggressively talking past the actual person? That's just mean, and petty, and you're better than this, man. You clearly understand what I was saying, so how does doing this further the conversation? Why are you intentionally misrepresenting what I was saying to you?

Is it really that hard to acknowledge even polite criticism?

No, them posturing surely isn't. I'm just at the point where it's just a little bit much to add "nuclear power throwing a tantrum in the grocery store aisle of geopolitics" on top of everything else

(Deflecting uncomfortable truths with a .gif is both disappointingly insulting and pretty transparent. I haven't done anything that warrants that kind of rudeness, you know that.)

You can't invalidate what I'm saying with that, and you probably shouldn't ignore the many threads dedicated to just how poorly you treat the users in the communities you moderate. Some of them are legit assholes who I will happily watch get beaten with your Metaphorical Steel Chair, but so many of them aren't, and I think it's too easy for you to dismiss the commenters who have been hurt by a misunderstanding or rose to defend themselves when a topic was unreasonably escalated as all being those legit assholes, when most of them aren't. I'm not (I like to think, at least), but I just didn't want the kind of help you were offering.

I moderate several things that are orders of magnitude larger ~~and some of them so much shittier tbh, fuck I hate linux devs sometimes~~ than lemmy.world, so believe me I understand exactly how awful this job can be. Being subjected to only vitriol from nazis objecting to your "totally unreasonable" ban while any positive actions you take are entirely constrained to invisible behind the scenes actions is awful. But when every meta thread about the site is has people saying "hey, can the admins please talk to this moderator?" it's a sign that you should ask someone you trust to give you a real answer and see if those people are just assholes, or if maybe you need to reflect on how your behavior is being interpreted by an outside observer.

Edit: (Yo guys don't downvote them, they were just trying to help. Being kind of a jerk about it, but it doesn't help anything to downvote people for sincere if misguided attempts at kindness)

Assuming they go through with it, it's is a pretty clear message that diplomatic attempts are at an end. These roads haven't been used in years because of how insane the north koreans are, but removing them only impacts civilian transit - militaries, even hilariously inept ones like the DPRK, have the ability to lay transit paths in minutes (or may not even need them, military vehicles being known for their offroad capability). And that's not even including the famed 'invasion tunnels', or that a ground assault isn't needed when 20% of your population is within the effective range of thousands (yes, thousands) of already emplaced artillery pieces.