pyromaster55

joined 1 year ago
[–] pyromaster55@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

Brain plasticity is absolutely a thing, and there are exercises you can do to maintain and even regain some of your brain plasticity.

[–] pyromaster55@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago

Do you know how hard it is to legally immigrate to another country, especially for the majority of folks?

[–] pyromaster55@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

Not 40, but weather news hits different when the cold/humidity fucking hurts your bones.

[–] pyromaster55@lemmy.world -5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (4 children)

Exactly that. Homelessness isn't a social issue that needs to be solved, it's the consequences of the unhomed's poor choices and absolutely nothing else.

Arguing with willful ignorance is fucking exhausting, you literally can't get them to see past their blind beliefs because most of them wear "you can't change my mind" like a badge of honor.

[–] pyromaster55@lemmy.world 43 points 1 year ago (26 children)

What Hamas did was horrible, a terrorist attack and atrocity for sure, but we're watching an actual genocide and half of the world is cheering it on. I feel like I'm talking crazy pills. What the fuck is wrong with people and what can we do to stop this?!?

[–] pyromaster55@lemmy.world 37 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I am by no means an expert, but what I have gathered is that it, like almost everything in combat, is incredibly complex.

With the correct support and combined arms usage tanks are an absolute devastating force on the battlefield still. Used correctly they can completely change a battle.

But they aren't war winners by themselves, and have never been. Unsupported a single tank is exactly a big expensive target, just like a modern fighter and or a single soldier.

The idea that tanks can be wonder weapons and that they alone can turn the tide of a war has existed since WW2, but they have always had weaknesses that need to be covered by supporting elements in order to be used effectively.

How the Abrams will do in Ukraine is anyone's guess. The Abrams has never seen combat without the might of the US's military logistics backing it up.

All that being said, if you are in a firefight, would you rather have a tank backing you up, or not? I'd take the tank support.

[–] pyromaster55@lemmy.world 118 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I see boomers posting “Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times.” on FB all the time, and they genuinely, unironically think they were here >strong men create good times< instead of where they really were, here >good times create weak men<, and so now we are absolutely here >weak men create hard times< thanks to them.

They're just so close to seeing the point.

[–] pyromaster55@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A decent flashlight.

A streamlight stylus pro is $20, uses 2 AAA batteries, is barely bigger than a pen, and can be an absolute life saver. It produces way more light and throws it way further than your phone's light, and I've been carrying the same one every day for nearly 15 years now with no signs of it failing. I use it nearly daily in my personal and professional life, you will genuinely wonder how you manages without it if you make it a habit of carrying it.

Or go nuts and get yourself a something like a surefire G2. Bigger, heavier, but more durable and incredibly bright.