I'm not an expert or anything, but as it has been explained to me, the geo-political consequences of Ukraine having NATO weapons is enormous.. If Ukraine were to have access to F-18s, F-35s, or any NATO asset, it would implicate NATO, and further escalate the conflict towards a NATO-Russian war (World War 3), and the precipitation of nuclear assets. This is why even France's own Dassault assets and Sweden's Saabs were not offered. F-16s are old enough, and used enough by non-NATO forces that this might be okay.

A prolonged war, while incredibly tragic, might still be less costly than World War 3...

Damn, those drones sitting in the audience clapping is equally disgusting.

It's a fucking shame you don't realize how many of the things you use on a daily basis derived from space explorations. https://www.inc.com/bill-murphy-jr/27-innovations-we-use-constantly-but-that-you-probably-didnt-know-were-from-nasa-space-program.html

The fact that you are even replying on this platform from your computer or phone makes you hypocritical for criticising the space programs, as well as shows how out of touch you are with how social problems need to be resolved.

Go touch grass.

What's your business dictating what others do?

What's with the misery?

Thanks for the plexamp reco! I didn't realize there was a music app by Plex.

I'm not sure I agree.. Or more precisely, it depends. [email protected] is an example of a community where there is value in reposting content from Reddit over, where the value is getting the coverage of deals. On Reddit, a small majority of users actively seek and share deals. If those users don't move to Lemmy, that community is dead, period. No amount of enticement will introduce new content.

The secondary value now is that, previously, many users had to go to Reddit for that content, because that content isn't available on Lemmy. Reposting isn't just to kick-start user engagement, but is also a retention tool. Users don't need to go to Reddit to fetch that info anymore. I know that was the case for me.

I understand the consequence of Lemmy being a mirror of Reddit. And yes, over reposting is detrimental. This is where reposts need to be strategically applied where it makes sense.

Ideally you don't want a blood transfusion. But in specific circumstances, a blood transfusion kick-starts the healing/growth process.

I've seen a number of communities that are otherwise dead without Reddit reposts, and being the most subscribed community for a given topic with the latest post being months ago is definitely not going to attract new users.

It's either don't repost, and new users won't join because of dead community, or repost and have some activity, and maybe new users will join. With dead communities, new users won't magically join, and new content won't magically get created.

One such example was the bcpcsalescanada community, which was revived due to reposts.

A few times during my childhood. The thing I hated the most was the lingering smell of the gaseous anesthetic. In subsequent surgical procedures, I requested an ivy approach to the delivery of the anesthetic.

Perhaps, but this is what was advised by the doctor, so I don't know

I'm not in the US, but one of the issues I have with medical insurance is that, say you need medication, the doctor will provide you with a prescription, requiring a specific brand due to the efficacy compared to other brands. The insurance providers would reject claims for the prescribed brand, and suggest an inferior brand that doctors warned to avoid.

This happened to my older folks, and is baffling why insurances feel the need to override a doctor's recommendations.

I just roll with all 3 🤷

• Signal for friends and family
• Telegram for my own personal bots and hobby development projects
• WhatsApp for the rest of the friends group that refuse to switch to signal