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fruitycoder , to showerthoughts in There is no history on the History channel. There's nothing true on TruTV. There's no music on music television. There's no science on the science channel.

Reminds of an observation my dad made once about how neighborhoods are named after what had to cleared away to build there. Oakwoods. Rolling hills. Pleasent view. Etc etc

Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In , to science_memes in Pavlov

I’ve retrained on Pavlov’s cat

AbouBenAdhem , to explainlikeimfive in Explain like I am a moron. If the US is such apparently a badass super power it has never tried to take over another country to expand its influence and status?

You’re describing the Spanish-American War, when the US seized Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines from Spain.

N0body , to explainlikeimfive in Explain like I am a moron. If the US is such apparently a badass super power it has never tried to take over another country to expand its influence and status?

Like so many other American things, imperialist exploitation has been largely privatized and handled by colossal megacorps.

emuspawn ,
@emuspawn@orbiting.observer avatar

yeah, what’s United Fruit Company, I mean, Chiquita up to? Uh…uh oh!

cobysev , (edited ) to explainlikeimfive in Explain like I am a moron. If the US is such apparently a badass super power it has never tried to take over another country to expand its influence and status?

The US owns a bunch of Caribbean “territories” that they still won’t make into US states. Their citizens are US citizens, but can’t vote.

EDIT: The current US itself was carved out of territories owned by Mexico, France, and England (which took them from Native American tribes). Back in the day, we conquered and stole a bunch of land, both from natives and from other invading countries.

But we’ve been more interested in foreign politics since WWII and less about expanding our own land. Besides, why own a bunch of foreign soil when we can just set up outposts around the globe and have a military frontline anywhere? I served in the US military and we have so many bases scattered around every region of the globe. We can literally involve ourselves in any global conflict we want to within a day or two. Meanwhile, our actual homeland is isolated on the other side of the planet, where it’s difficult for foreign invaders to touch us.

ethd , to science_memes in Cucumber 🥒

Same energy as “Sappho and her friend”

Gradually_Adjusting , to games in "Concord servers are now offline. Thank you to all the freegunners who have joined us in the Concord galaxy"
@Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world avatar

Freegunners never die, hell yeah 😎 fucking cool tweet

bionicjoey , to games in "Concord servers are now offline. Thank you to all the freegunners who have joined us in the Concord galaxy"

So funny when a corpo is forced to seem positive about something where there is absolutely no positive way of spinning it. It has this surreal energy where the person doing PR seems almost uncanny, like some kind of lizard person.

HowManyNimons , to science_memes in House spiders

Folks say they belong in houses and we shouldn’t put them outside.

adespoton ,

Folks say all sorts of things.

Personally, I’m fine with house spiders as long as they do their job AND don’t start laying eggs indoors.

Don’t nest where you hunt, house spiders. It never ends well.

jared , to explainlikeimfive in Explain like I am a moron. If the US is such apparently a badass super power it has never tried to take over another country to expand its influence and status?
@jared@mander.xyz avatar

Do military bases count?

lettruthout ,

Yeah, why go through the trouble of installing a puppet government when we can offer “assistance” with a military base? How many hundred bases are there around the world now? And have any been decommissioned ever?

Vandals_handle ,
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Yes in the 1990’s, Clark and Subic Bay in the Philippines were decommissioned. Clark was abandoned because of volcanic ash from Mt Pinatubo. Subic Bay closed when the Philippine senate refused to renew the lease. This gives Filipinos the right to say “All your bases are belong to us.”

UnderpantsWeevil , to science_memes in House spiders
@UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world avatar

They were just called Unhoused Spiders back then.

credo ,

Temporarily Unhoused Spiders

gibmiser ,

Use your spider-centered language folks!

It should be: Spiders who are temporarily experiencing homelessness.

TeddE , to science_memes in Pavlov
@TeddE@lemmy.world avatar

Not everyone thinks of dog, there’s a bit of a bell curve.

metaStatic ,

Pavlova.jpg

blanketswithsmallpox ,

What else do there Pavlov?

ThePinkUnicorn ,

I thought of the VR shooter Pavlov shack first.

Comment105 ,

I also thought of that one.

For anyone curious it’s Counter Strike in VR, basically.

gofsckyourself , to linux in Linux Directory Structure - FHS

Here’s a higher quality version

https://i.imgur.com/3TSE0j0.jpeg

NuclearDolphin ,

Great username

Zarxrax , to explainlikeimfive in Explain like I am a moron. If the US is such apparently a badass super power it has never tried to take over another country to expand its influence and status?

You mean other than from the Native Americans?

AbouBenAdhem ,

And Hawaii?

devfuuu ,

And all the proxy wars on the middle eats.

Rhynoplaz ,

Around here we call the middle eats “lunch”.

tate ,

And Mexico. And Spain. And even Britain (in the pacific northwest).

ETA: And Samoa, Philippines, Cuba, Guam, etc.

TheRaven ,
@TheRaven@lemmy.ca avatar

Also Britain in the Canadian colonies in 1812.

grue ,

ETA: And Samoa, Philippines, Cuba, Guam, etc.

To be fair, most of those were also “Spain” at the time.

umbrella , (edited )
@umbrella@lemmy.ml avatar

and literally the entirety of south america, sans like one or two countries

tate ,

I don’t know of the US ever occupying or controlling (explicitly) a south american country.

umbrella ,
@umbrella@lemmy.ml avatar

then you should study it a little bit closer. or at all.

Maggoty ,

They were native, they just didn’t know they were American yet.

beebarfbadger ,

Fortunately, they were lethally informed.

YeetPics , to technology in How Russia is Influencing US Citizens on Social Media. Russian Intelligence Document "Guerrilla Media Campaign in the US" [Translated] Page 3
@YeetPics@mander.xyz avatar

This document has shaped every little chat I’ve had with every little tankie.

Neato!

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