euphronius posted:

15 billion to build a bridge sounds high

stephenthinkpad posted:

China built this railway and road bridge for Bangeldesh last year,
https://x.com/TNGeography/status/1541057347413352449?s=20

3.1 billion USD.

stephenthinkpad posted:

China built this railway and road bridge for Bangeldesh last year,
https://x.com/TNGeography/status/1541057347413352449?s=20

3.6 billion USD.

Orange Devil posted:

Please tell me you tell your wife this.

mlmp08 posted:

You made a very broad claim, said research backed it up, then provided a source that does not support your argument. That source responsibly has a ton of disclaimers about lack of academic rigor and insubstantial studies to draw well-researched conclusions. You chose to exclude that language from your broad claim. The source you listed also calls some of your claims up thread as “antiquated” and “dispelled” reference your views on asexuality and ASD.

Either you are hastily reading/skimming or just selectively quoting to support your broad argument.

Orange Devil posted:

Please tell me you tell your wife this.

Weka posted:

I don't think a bridge across a river and a bridge in the sea are necessarily comparable just for depth below the water of piles alone.

Were you exposed to a lot of pedantic arguments during puberty?

genericnick posted:

happy that they finally got their road cum railway

stephenthinkpad posted:

FF wife accidentally brings up the "artillery-chan rule 34" search suggestion on browser.

DJJIB-DJDCT posted:

agape, a higher expression of love than eros. You might marry a woman, but you’re not expected to regularly kill or die for them. It’s your therápontes with whom you have a real connection.

DJJIB-DJDCT posted:

There’s been some work done on this since the 70’s at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health and UofT.



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fizziester posted:

Source: Kyiv Independent

https://kyivindependent.com/uk-general-admits-that-military-couldnt-fight-russia-for-more-than-a-couple-of-months/

UK general admits military 'couldn't fight Russia for more than a couple of months'
by Nate Ostiller
March 27, 2024 12:51 PM
2 min read

U.K. General Rob Magowan admitted in a committee meeting on March 26 that the U.K.'s military "couldn't fight (Russia) for more than a couple of months because we don't have the ammunition and reserves of equipment to do it."

The striking admission was the latest warning from U.K. defense and military officials cautioning that the country is unprepared for armed conflict. Officials from other NATO countries have repeated similar concerns.

The U.K.'s parliament released a bipartisan report in February 2024 that said the armed forces have yet to break the "vicious cycle" of equipment and manpower shortages that continue to hinder its preparation for a high-intensity war.

Magowan's acknowledgment on March 26 went even further as he responded to a direct question from lawmaker Mark Francois about the ability of the U.K. to fight Russia.

"We are not ready for an enduring war, do you accept that?" Francois asked, to which Magowan responded, "Yes, absolutely."

"We could not fight an enduring war against Russia, drop all these euphemisms about peer adversaries," Francois continued.

Magowan conceded that government spending on defense "does not meet, in all areas, the threats that we face."

At the same time, U.K. Defense Secretary Grant Shapps said that a situation in which the U.K. would fight Russia alone is unlikely.

"For people watching, and hearing that the U.K. isn't ready for war exclusively with Russia, it’s important to understand that because we are in NATO and Article 5 (mutual defense clause) exists, (so) we would never be in that situation."

DJJIB-DJDCT posted:

but clearly gentlemen prefer bonds.

500excf type r posted:

Which is the bridge crossing a sea

DJJIB-DJDCT posted:

1367-1368
"Gratitude belongeth, 'tis sure, to a lad; but a woman-comrade is never true; she loveth him that is present unto her."

etc etc

Flournival Dixon posted:

I think it's genuinely possible that America just can't rebuild a bridge that big at this point, how would you even do it? There's so little industrial capacity left and it costs so much to pay your way through all the grift and poo poo that's in the way.

I'm sure a bunch of people will make themselves rich(er) off of it but I am not confident that the will in government exists to actually replace the bridge.

DJJIB-DJDCT posted:

I got probed for pointing this out, but research suggests this, and the furry thing, is the result of autistic children hitting puberty and not being able to differentiate sexual ideation, the source of their sexual urges, from media they enjoy. If they hit puberty and start experiencing hormonal arousal, attraction, while watching anthropomorphized children’s cartoons, they direct the feelings towards the source of their other “good feelings”, because they can’t figure it out. Thus, furries, a fetishistic practice that is nigh universally composed of ASD people. Similarly, if they consume Japanese animation, they similarly confuse their bodies’ arousal caused by puberty, a “good feeling”, with the source of their other “good feelings”, Japanese cartoons, and direct their urges there.

e: The reason these communities are not “just sexual”, as people are quick to jump all over in defence is the same as the cause, ASD. There’s a high prevalence of “asexuals” and so on. Essentially because they weren’t able to interpret sexual urges during puberty, many still can’t now, and their excitement and attraction, while rooted in sexual pathology, is not necessarily erotic. They don’t experience or understand their intense attachment to anthropomorphized animals or Japanese animation as rooted in sexuality, some don’t understand sexuality at all, so they aren’t lying, there are many people intensely involved in these fandoms for whom their participation is not sexual - per se.

euphronius posted:

don’t worry viewers. if there was actually a war with Russia we could count on uh .. Latvia ? to help us

Pepe Silvia Browne posted:

dear god, please make sure canada is also on the losing side of ww3 thank you in advance

Regarde Aduck posted:

Yes Canada is in nato

DJJIB-DJDCT posted:

Having highly restricted interests and having sensory peculiarities in ASD may possibly set the stage for developing fetishism and other paraphilias in individuals with certain sensory profiles among other factors. Non- sexual restricted, repetitive interests and behaviors in childhood may morph into sexualized, if not frank sexual, restricted, repetitive interests in adolescence. The same tactile or olfactory peculiarities manifested by various stereotypic behaviors seen in childhood may similarly influence the development of sexual behaviors later on. That is, early, inadvertent conditioning to sensory stimuli that is appealing during pre-puberty may lead to a powerful union between specific ASD sensory-seeking and sexual arousal through masturbation. This notion of early conditioning to deviant stimuli is not a new concept [51]; it just has not been isolated as a factor and empirically studied.
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Pepe Silvia Browne posted:

thank you for the reminder, and for taking my post very literally, there's certainly nothing else I could be saying or wishing for with it

Second Hand Meat Mouth posted:

DJJIB-DJDCT posted:

There’s been some work done on this since the 70’s at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health and UofT.

For example Sexual Behavior and Autism Spectrum Disorders: an Update and Discussion by Kellaher,

Having highly restricted interests and having sensory peculiarities in ASD may possibly set the stage for developing fetishism and other paraphilias in individuals with certain sensory profiles among other factors. Non- sexual restricted, repetitive interests and behaviors in childhood may morph into sexualized, if not frank sexual, restricted, repetitive interests in adolescence. The same tactile or olfactory peculiarities manifested by various stereotypic behaviors seen in childhood may similarly influence the development of sexual behaviors later on. That is, early, inadvertent conditioning to sensory stimuli that is appealing during pre-puberty may lead to a powerful union between specific ASD sensory-seeking and sexual arousal through masturbation. This notion of early conditioning to deviant stimuli is not a new concept [51]; it just has not been isolated as a factor and empirically studied.

For example, I evaluated a young man with ASD whose interest in wolves as a child transformed into a preferential canine zoophilia as an adolescent. During puberty, he began masturbating to depictions of females dressed up like wolves, known as “furries”, and shortly thereafter he switched to viewing online hardcore bestiality videos featuring dogs. One day he was arrested for climbing into a stranger’s yard and masturbating while touching a dog. This young man revealed his insatiable interest in wolves as a child and how he was drawn to the appearance of their soft fur. In adolescence, he began noticing the scrotums of large dogs and felt urges to touch them. He admitted that seeing and touching the fur and scrotum of a large wolf-like dog sexually excited him. As commonly observed among ASD individuals, he was particularly interested in sensory parts of ‘the whole’ for his sexual arousal. Eventually, this led to his offending behavior.

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DJJIB-DJDCT posted:

There’s been some work done on this since the 70’s at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health and UofT.

For example Sexual Behavior and Autism Spectrum Disorders: an Update and Discussion by Kellaher,

Having highly restricted interests and having sensory peculiarities in ASD may possibly set the stage for developing fetishism and other paraphilias in individuals with certain sensory profiles among other factors. Non- sexual restricted, repetitive interests and behaviors in childhood may morph into sexualized, if not frank sexual, restricted, repetitive interests in adolescence. The same tactile or olfactory peculiarities manifested by various stereotypic behaviors seen in childhood may similarly influence the development of sexual behaviors later on. That is, early, inadvertent conditioning to sensory stimuli that is appealing during pre-puberty may lead to a powerful union between specific ASD sensory-seeking and sexual arousal through masturbation. This notion of early conditioning to deviant stimuli is not a new concept [51]; it just has not been isolated as a factor and empirically studied.

For example, I evaluated a young man with ASD whose interest in wolves as a child transformed into a preferential canine zoophilia as an adolescent. During puberty, he began masturbating to depictions of females dressed up like wolves, known as “furries”, and shortly thereafter he switched to viewing online hardcore bestiality videos featuring dogs. One day he was arrested for climbing into a stranger’s yard and masturbating while touching a dog. This young man revealed his insatiable interest in wolves as a child and how he was drawn to the appearance of their soft fur. In adolescence, he began noticing the scrotums of large dogs and felt urges to touch them. He admitted that seeing and touching the fur and scrotum of a large wolf-like dog sexually excited him. As commonly observed among ASD individuals, he was particularly interested in sensory parts of ‘the whole’ for his sexual arousal. Eventually, this led to his offending behavior.

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Mister Bates posted:

a couple of months is a wildly optimistic estimation for the endurance of the British military in a conventional war

that is almost exactly as long as the last conventional war they fought lasted, which was over 40 years ago, was fought using a much larger and stronger military than they have now, was much lower intensity than a war with Russia would be, and still seriously strained their logistics

fizziester posted:

"We are not ready for an enduring war, do you accept that?" Francois asked, to which Magowan responded, "Yes, absolutely."

"We could not fight an enduring war against Russia, drop all these euphemisms about peer adversaries," Francois continued.

Officer Sandvich posted:

https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/denying-russia%E2%80%99s-only-strategy-success

Denying Russia’s Only Strategy for Success

stephenthinkpad posted:

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If Japan wants to send their ships over to "protect" taiwan, a former Japanese colony they forcedly took away from Qin Dynasty started China's "century of humiliation", there will be old debt and new debt to payback with Japan. It's much safer for China to sink a Japanese carrier than a US carrier.