Dude. Literally no one is out there screen shotting “tankies” on lemmy. It’s just in your head.

Persecution complex really knows no bounds.

That preserving rituals is important for maintaining community.

The writers are terrible, but “Rich Dad, Poor Dad” and “Total Money Makeover” are both really good books for middle class folks.

I read them before I learned how terrible their authors are.

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No. For gawd sakes. They ain’t talking to God, y’all.

They are looking at what Putin and the Russian oligarchs have, and looking at what the Saudis and the Oil Oligarchs have, and saying “I want that!”

Oh please. I wouldn’t believe this administration cumulatively attended 10 regular Sunday church services in the past 20 years.

It ain’t got nothing to do with God or any religion. They are as religious as Russia. It’s about creating a global oligarchy with themselves at the top.

Oh, I’m sure we bombed the snot out of not-iran during the exercise. But the lesson is that technology advantage doesn’t win wars. (Didn’t win Vietnam, Iraq or Afghanistan either. Also didn’t help Russia win Ukraine or Afghanistan.)

In the 2000s, the American military held a massive joint exercise on the invasion of a mountainous middle eastern nation. (It was obviously Iran without saying Iran.) The exercise was supposed to be a demonstration of America’s military to show Iran that America really would wipe them out if a war ever happened, which looked inevitable at the time.

A very talented US General was chosen to lead the not-Iran side. He was given the resources that Iran was believed to have at the time. And through a series of very expertly timed and choreographed attacks he won. He crushed the US Navy. The whole exercise was a massive embarrassment for the military. The big media announcements were obviously all cancelled.

Granted, the General that was put in charge of not-Iran was extremely brilliant and had very detailed knowledge and experience of US capabilities and how to exploit vulnerabilities. But it’s still studied in the military schools as a case study in not underestimating your enemy.

Yeah. It was taking a company that is only barely financially solvent because it was grown very conservatively and had no debt, and flooding that company with debt. I mean it’s not Nobel prize economics stuff here.

Who keeps giving these VC guys money? Unless the goal is specifically to close the company the business plan made no sense.

I personally think your third possibility is the least likely. I just find it unimaginable that there would not have been any cultural exchange at all of the two peoples knew about each other.

I can imagine human beings, even extremely capable ones, just missing things. In fact that happened a lot. There were many European cultures that had the technical capability to sail to the Americans for thousands of years before they did it. And there were clothes in the Americas that had the capability to go the other way, but they didn’t.

As someone else pointed out, there is a similar story for Madagascar. There were plenty of cultures that could have discovered it for centuries that just didn’t. Similar stories with countless other islands.

Honestly, I think it’s more surprising that the indigenous Australian peoples discovered the continent when they did. They were the only animals to make the jump across the straight.

I don’t know. There is linguistic, archeological and genetic evidence that the Polynesians traded with the South Americans, but I don’t think there is nearly as robust evidence for Australia.

Current evidence as I understand it is really just as that map depicts it. That they went straight from Indonesia to New Zealand, and just missed Australia.