I mean, wouldn't physical activity (and cooperative group based physical activity at that) during one's formative years make one more likely to make a useful soldier, not less?
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It's not laid out like Lemmy is, because Lemmy is basically the fediverse version of Reddit, while Mastodon is more the fediverse version of Twitter. I'm not very good at using that format myself so I can't offer much advice, but from what I've seen, what your feed is like depends a lot on what instance you join, to a much larger extent than on Lemmy (it's a much bigger userbase than lemmy as well to my knowledge). I dont know of any equivalent to communities per se, you have to join an instance that is good for the kinds of things you're looking for, and follow users that post or interact with that content. I think a favorite is more like a like, and reblogging is more like reposting for one's followers and imstance to see too.
They do technically have orbital launch capability, which implies they in theory have the capacity to construct an ICBM, even if not with a nuclear warhead necessarily. Granted, the results of such a strike almost certainly would not be worth the costs to them so I've no expectation they'll do such a thing, but they probably could if they wanted to badly enough.
If that were true, Disney and a number of other large companies would not exist.
That's not how these things work, if anything, the more serious an event is, the more that thing is going to be what people make jokes and memes about, to dampen the stress of the situation if nothing else. I'm not sure there's actually such a thing as an event so serious that nobody makes jokes about it.
3rd? Surely there's been more than 2 before?
I mean, I dont see how it isnt a war already, this kind of thing is an act of war after all, and the other side doesnt have to be capable of equal retaliation for the term to apply.
You may misunderstand, I'm not making any prediction that this administration or any like what we've had in a long time, if ever, would do such a thing. What I'm saying is that if some government was installed that actually cared, it's not an impossibly to improve agricultural labor conditions without driving the working class broke from food cost increases.
That would be unpleasant, yes, and would require further efforts to minimize the consequences for those with low incomes (for instance, expansion of food subsidies, which yes would require even more taxation of those with wealth), however, if food prices aren't as high as that now because of near slavery conditions, then there's probably no ethical way to avoid it.
I would imagine the Iranian government or an affiliated organization like that would have better access to the internet at the moment than the average citizen. A social media influence campaign doesn't even have to be physically based within the country running it, technically. I'm not saying whether Iran is or isn't running bots or to what extent, because I don't know that, but I would think that, given that their enemies are doing it, it would make quite a lot of sense for them to do so as well.
I wonder if he actually got their representatives to try to negotiate anything, or if he literally just said there would be a cease fire in the hopes that the two sides would feel obligated to follow through once it was publicly announced.