[-] TheBigMike@lemm.ee 12 points 1 month ago

Time to move to the glorious nation of Kazakhstan, the top producer of potassium, to get some of those magic minerals to protect my countless buildings.

[-] TheBigMike@lemm.ee 31 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

It goes to 9 minutes from 8, since every single communication gadget will yell out that the sun has disappeared as reports come in from the other side of the earth.

[-] TheBigMike@lemm.ee 30 points 5 months ago

Good meme! (I have no clue what any of it means other than the dates)

[-] TheBigMike@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago

Mainly mercantilism which just means that everyone wants to only export and importing stuff is literally the worst thing in the world. Mercantilism also had a lot more state restrictions on it compared to capitalism.

Feudalism mainly died out in the 1400's when more of the power was centralised to the king instead of their vassals.

[-] TheBigMike@lemm.ee 47 points 1 year ago

Oh damn, an article containing a topic about Russia and Cuba. I hope this post will contain a civil conversation about the topic without it derailing into a giant fighting pit about the United States.

[-] TheBigMike@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago

From what I've read depleted uranium is not proven to cause cancer, nor is it not proven (With the exception that you inhale it or eat it).

In Iraq it's still up to debate if it causes cancer or birth defects, since burning buildings and other burning stuff also causes a lot of nasty things to humans.

From what I've read they were also used in Bosnia, and they haven't had similiar effects to Iraq.

So let the Ukrainians have their depleted uranium.

[-] TheBigMike@lemm.ee 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Not that I know of, but it should be added in for those who don't want to interact with people from Hexbear. If people have the freedom to block an instance for themselves it would expand the decentralization that Lemmy is built on, since people don't have to move to those instances to block out Hexbear.

I've read that blocking the Hexbear domain is a solution to this, but that isn't a proper solution, since those who aren't tech-literate would have a pretty hard time doing that, so a first-party solution would be the best.

[-] TheBigMike@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago

That's what Big Non-Dino-Oil wants you to think, so they can get all of the moneys from everyone.

[-] TheBigMike@lemm.ee 16 points 1 year ago

The modern way of doing this would involve reversing the process of dinosaur bones turning into oil. So you just put into the oil-to-bone-inator and bury those bones back into the ground where they originally came from.

[-] TheBigMike@lemm.ee 102 points 1 year ago

If this happens they'll do the "A person who swears to tell the truth and nothing but the truth says what" ordeal. If that doesn't work they will just let you leave

[-] TheBigMike@lemm.ee 35 points 1 year ago

I honestly forgot where this meme was posted and thought it was a really weird shitpost.

[-] TheBigMike@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago

But that wasn't said in your original message, was it? In your original message you were implying that by the USA spending more money in their military to spread their influence, would make the US government a tankie(?), thus invalidating everyone who uses the word tankie.

Also if your point was that the word tankie lost its meaning by usage in invalid contexts, why did you mention the USA? Wouldn't it have been more appropriate to explain that it lost its meaning by the usage of it, and not by the actions of the US government, since the US is not the only nation who has people who use the word tankie?

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