shame on an IGA posted:

Very strong "god is real and a prankster" vibes from the way we all go noseblind to H2S as soon it reaches truly dangerous concentrations

Lovely Joe Stalin posted:

I imagine there would be survival benefits to detecting rain or snowfall, back down the evolutionary chain.

Aces High posted:

this reads like one of those real life examples you get told in workplace safety courses "x person was driving their truck, they hit a big pothole and it broke containment, the driver didn't think to put on any PPE before checking and passed out while checking. Their partner went to check on them and passed out, they both died"

complacency (and severe lack of situational awareness) kills

cr0y posted:

Us only being able to detect CO2 and not specifically the lack of oxygen always made me feel like evolution was like "ehh close enough, should generally work the way it's intended"

windshipper posted:

Ukrainian forces have made significant gains in the past 72 hours.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/0...?smid=url-share

Tunicate posted:

Not what the article is showing for me.

Tunicate posted:

Not what the article is showing for me.

Comrade Blyatlov posted:

This is exactly how evolution works.

cr0y posted:

Us only being able to detect CO2 and not specifically the lack of oxygen always made me feel like evolution was like "ehh close enough, should generally work the way it's intended"

cr0y posted:

Us only being able to detect CO2 and not specifically the lack of oxygen always made me feel like evolution was like "ehh close enough, should generally work the way it's intended"

The Eyes Have It posted:

Humans have really not (as in not all) evolved any ability whatsoever to detect or deal with a situation of "maybe the air here is not actually air as we know it"

There was a dude years ago who bought an old missile silo or something, and in exploring it belatedly realized how close he and his whole crew came to being a snuff film when their voices got higher and everyone actually managed to get out. Dude beat the odds there. But at no point did anyone feel funny or the air tasted weird, or anything. We're just not built that way.

spankmeister posted:

I remember that. Dude seemed like a bit of an idiot tbhq. I remember him wanting to live there and there was a LOT of work to be done and he was always talking about his constrained budget. Then one of the very first things he did was install a super expensive home theater set lol

A.o.D. posted:

Once you get done blocking all of the necessary elements, you scroll down a few articles to eventually get to a blurb about a Pentagon official vaguely referring to progress on the offensive.

The Door Frame posted:

someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my family is dying

Rinkles posted:

But can they do it underwater?

The Door Frame posted:

someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my family is dying

Cugel the Clever posted:

The existence of the uncanny valley effect suggests that our ancestors evolved in a context in which quickly identifying and being repulsed by a not quite human entity was essential for survival.

Cugel the Clever posted:

The existence of the uncanny valley effect suggests that our ancestors evolved in a context in which quickly identifying and being repulsed by a not quite human entity was essential for survival.

Arc Light posted:

My most lingering memory of Afghanistan was watching an Afghan soldier exit the Black Hawk on the uphill side of a mountain and promptly lose his head. This was a thing we'd been repeatedly briefed not to do, but it didn't really sink in until that moment.

goatsestretchgoals posted:

0/10 didn’t have the it’s aliens guy

e: and for the record I did not read all that because you posted a PNG

Kei Technical posted:

Corpses

Mederlock posted:

It's a dumb tumblr screed, you didn't miss out on anything.

Lemniscate Blue posted:

Clicky for hugey (read the whole thing, it's good):

Tunicate posted:

Not what the article is showing for me.

quote:

NY Times: Ukraine’s counteroffensive has made ‘notable progress’ in the last 72 hours, the White House says.

Ukrainian forces have made “notable progress” in their counteroffensive over the last 72 hours, notching wins against the second line of Russian defenders, a White House spokesman, John F. Kirby, said at a news conference on Friday.

The United States, Mr. Kirby said, will not discuss Ukraine’s war plans, or how its forces would exploit their gains. But, he added, the U.S. expects Ukraine to continue to push further south, requiring “tough fighting ahead.”

Ukraine’s military celebrated a tactical victory earlier this week when its forces retook the southern village of Robotyne. Days later, Ukrainian assault units moved east toward Verbove, where several lines of defense converge.

On Friday, Andriy Kovalev, a spokesman for the general staff of Ukraine’s armed forces, said that Ukrainian troops had successfully pushed about three and a half miles farther south of Robotyne toward Melitopol, a primary target of the counteroffensive. Ukrainian troops struck Russian targets with artillery, Mr. Kovalev added.

Mr. Kirby, who is the chief spokesman for the White House’s National Security Agency, said that while the roughly 2-month-old counteroffensive had been slow in some areas, slower than Ukrainian commanders had hoped for, Kyiv’s military had made progress. And any criticism of Ukrainian strategy or operations by anonymous U.S. officials, he said, was not helpful.

Mr. Kirby’s comments came a day after a Ukrainian official made sharp comments deriding criticism of the counteroffensive as slow.

At a meeting of European Union foreign ministers in Spain on Thursday, Ukraine’s foreign minister, Dmytro Kuleba, likened such assessments to “spitting into the face” of Ukrainian soldiers giving their all on the front line, Reuters reported.

“I would recommend all critics to shut up, come to Ukraine and try to liberate one square centimeter by themselves,” he said.

Neither Mr. Kuleba nor Mr. Kirby specified what criticism they were referring to, but two weeks ago, The Washington Post reported on a U.S. intelligence assessment saying that Ukraine would fail to reach the key southeastern city of Melitopol, a key to the counteroffensive’s goal of cutting off Russian supply lines in southern Ukraine. And last week, The New York Times published an article on assessments by U.S. and Western officials that the slow pace of the counteroffensive stemmed from its decision to deploy roughly equal numbers of troops to the fronts in the south and east, rather than focusing on the south.

In July, President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine attributed the counteroffensive’s delayed start partly to the slow arrival of Western weapons. With more than a year to prepare for a Ukrainian offensive in the south, Russian forces had ample time to construct a dense network of fortifications.

On Friday, Mr. Kirby reaffirmed U.S. support for Ukraine, praising its soldiers for fighting “bravely and courageously” and emphasizing that the United States had been “trying to get them what they need.”

The United States wants to help Ukraine capitalize on its recent progress by making sure it has tools, techniques, training and capability to “continue that progress at a pace that they decide is appropriate,” Mr. Kirby said.

Continued U.S. assistance, he said, would include helping Ukraine react “positively and effectively” to any Russian countermoves.

— Julian E. Barnes and Gaya Gupta

LtCol J. Krusinski posted:

Have you ever pulled a me and gone “WHO THE gently caress THOUGHT I WAS A FORCE MULTIPLIER IN THIS SITUATION?!” When thinking about your time in the forever wars?

Like, I’m 90% sure you were USAF cyber troop right? Why were you on a Blackhawk with ANA infil’ing on the side of steep terrain? I’m almost certain almost nobody ever joined the goddamn Air Force to work on computers and live with that life experience.

I can’t help but laugh though, because goddamn is that ever on brand for the ANA.

Lemniscate Blue posted:

Clicky for hugey (read the whole thing, it's good):

Tunicate posted:

Not what the article is showing for me.

Alan Smithee posted:

kalel posted:

I read it all and it makes sense to me. as a fellow tumblr avoider I understand the impulse to ignore it but it's a convincing argument that's presumably well-sourced

Stultus Maximus posted:

I assumed it was a parody given the misspelled words and stream of consciousness writing, with part of the joke being that people will assume you know what you are talking about if you write a whole lot with big words and lots of links that nobody will actually bother to check the validity of.

kalel posted:

I read it all and it makes sense to me. as a fellow tumblr avoider I understand the impulse to ignore it but it's a convincing argument that's presumably well-sourced

Tuna-Fish posted:

The part I didn't like was that the writer limited themselves to fairly recent human subspecies (Neanderthals), while Homo Erectus remained at the top of the food chain for about a half a million years after the lineage that lead to modern humans split off, and there is some proof of them hunting and eating other hominids.