“Today we face the monsters that are at our door.”
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You know Elon probably saw this and was super mad he still can't fire Halli.
I've already had one person in the notes claim dropping the bombs was the "only option" to end the war.
No.
Shaun has a wonderful breakdown of all the nuances surrounding the Japanese surrender.
If you do not have 2 hours to spare (or you can't watch it at 2x speed), I will give you some bullet points.
- Several American leaders of the time felt the bombs provided no assistance in ending the war.
- Japan was already defeated. They wanted to surrender but were stubborn and wanted conditions.
- Their only concern was their god-like emperor stay in power and not be executed.
- That was their concern before the bombs. That was their concern after the bombs. Nothing changed in their minds.
- They didn't actually care that the bombs killed people. It took them several days to even have a meeting after the first bomb dropped.
- The idea that dropping the bomb would save millions of casualties was invented *after* the bomb was dropped and was pulled out of someone's ass to cover said ass.
- There was never going to be an invasion.
People think we dropped the bombs and the Japanese leadership was like, "Oh shit! We give up!"
But in reality, we dropped the first bomb and they were like, "I'm busy tomorrow, can we have the bomb meeting on Thursday?"
We dropped the bombs to show the world we had the bombs.
Japan was a convenient and timely excuse to that end.
worlds most compressed jpeg vs worlds crustiest pdf scan uploaded by an elderly professor. fight
they will have beautiful children
real actual PDF scan from an undergrad class:
it's the warping on the text that really makes this
fun fact: if you pirated six full length albums from your favourite band, listened to them all back to back 5 times, and then sent them $20 on ko-fi or whatever, on average they would have earned slightly more money per play than they'd get from you streaming the same shit with ads on spotify.
invariably when I talk about media piracy people are like "but what!!! about creators!!! they need to make a living!!!" my homey in romey if you're that worried about it send your favourite artist $5 right now. do it. shut the fuck up.
I want to support artists but I can ONLY do it if I'm being drip fed shittier and shittier versions of the content a tech executive thinks I want. I have no choice in the matter because uhhhhhh other people won't pay for things if they're free. yeah that's right. other people are the problem.
here's the piracy secret big media don't want you to know: you can always give artists money if you want to.
extremely funny when AI artists feel the need to put watermarks on their images
like oh you're worried about misattribution and image theft huh. you're worried that someone's gonna take the image you made and claim it as their own. or strip away the context and your name. or use it in ways you didn't consent to. boy that sure would suck huh. i bet that would feel really bad. i bet that would be really annoying. i b
