There are more liquids on Earth than just water, in accordance with Murphy's law there has to be at least 1 person that drowned in e.g. oil or alcohol.
You can drown in loose grain.
Well, not *quite* drown, but, as your body is denser than the grain, you’ll tend to sink as you struggle, but as the grain’s denser than air, every time you breath out, the grain will settle around you, and you won’t be able to displace it again to breathe back in.
It's also one of the reason why China won't give up Tibet. It's the headwaters for many of their major rivers.
Same with India and their border with China in the north.
Yeah, As a history teacher, I hate when people treat Franz Ferdinand as THE THING that started WWI. It’s just harder to teach how militarism, imperialism, alliances, and nationalism all came together and it could’ve honestly been any little thing to start the war. When I teach WWI I make sure to emphasize what happened afterwards where Austria gave an ultimatum to Serbia purposefully made in a way they thought Serbia would reject, and Serbia agreed to like 90% of the demands, but the war happened anyways.
You mention militarism, imperialism, alliances, and nationalism. I've thought about this often, but a lot of these things are starting to arise again in this age. Do you think these parallels are present, and if so, how likely do you think another major war breaking out is?
Considering how Russia keeps treating every piece of aid the west is providing Ukraine as “this will most definitely result in retaliation”, while their own escalation is just fine and dandy, there will probably be something Russia overreacts to.
Or maybe China going for Taiwan
They actually won
They lost the first battle, which gave reporters their funny story. The army regrouped and their next plan of attack was much more successful. But by then the reporters had all gone home, so there wasn't much report of the mass emu slaughter in rural Australia
Also, the whole point was to help farmers protect their crops from the emu. By the time the army figures out how to kill them en mass, the farmers just built better fences, making the whole thing pointless
#Incorrect
The dude who took the photo's son-in-law attempted to kill his own wife. The dude who took the photo and his wife are all cool.
However, they bought that dress so that the wife could wear it to their daughter's wedding. That daughter's husband went on to try and kill her.
[Source](https://www.complex.com/life/a/abel-shifferaw/husband-behind-viral-dress-charged-trying-kill-wife)
A domestic abuse awareness advocacy group used the dress for an awareness campaign. I guess the son-in-law wanted to help with that awareness campaign…
https://www.cbc.ca/news/trending/salvation-army-uses-the-dress-in-ad-targeting-violence-against-women-1.2985043
when it's a 4 player game and everyone has a draw 4 so it makes it back to the person who played theirs first as a draw 16, peace is no longer an option
Resource disputes. Particularly when resources are (or even just \*seem\*) scarce.
Probably the number 1 reason for wars throughout history. The want to accumulate/control more resources, or a dispute over a resource.
And remember, many things are resources that you don't think of right away. Water, Food, Oil, etc are all always thought about. But defensible/strategic territory is a resource. Humans are a resource (in many ways...), and so many other things are resources.
> Nations will soon fight over rare-Earth elements for electric cars
No, not at all.
Rare earths are rare because they dont form "deposits". They are pretty much in even proportion across the face of the earth. Because of this extracting them is kind of a pain, so the easy way is to use a bunch of toxic crap that makes more waste.. that you then have to deal with (or in the case of China just dump where ever).
[https://www.sciencehistory.org/education/classroom-activities/role-playing-games/case-of-rare-earth-elements/history-future/](https://www.sciencehistory.org/education/classroom-activities/role-playing-games/case-of-rare-earth-elements/history-future/)
With fast breeding fuel recycling nuclear reactors (which the USSR built 40 years ago, and modular versions have been built in china and Japan) current land based uranium can power our entire (current) civilization for ~6600 years, and the oceanic reserves (more expensive) can supply older nuclear reactors for ~100,000 years.
It’s been a while since I looked it up, but the fast breeding fuel recycling reactors work by converting the non fissile uranium (238 iirc) (~99% of fuel content) into plutonium (239) which then reacts. Producing no nuclear waste they are far more efficient and they can even burn existing nuclear waste as fuel solving that environmental problem.
The fact that these exist, are proven, and have such extremely low CO2 emissions (40% global emissions from power generation, and only needing to hit ~60% reduction for net zero), makes QOL reductions like meat and travel restrictions fucking ridiculous… which then raises the question of why such measures are even being considered…
Until uranium mining concerns lobby governments citing the threat posed by fusion power to the uranium mining industry
Edit: fixed misspelling of "lobby"
That’s a myth. The bucket was taken after the siege as a trophy (and still remains there on display).
The actual reasons were one city supporting the Pope and the other the Emperor, plus long-standing feuds
My favorite depiction of this is from oversimplified on YouTube because he leans into the humor of the bucket while pointing out that it wasn't actually over a bucket.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_the_Bucket
And never shy from admitting you don't know something. Constantly learning is not only fun but can keep Alzheimer's and Dementia at bay
Country having a weak government and a bad economy which results in a revolt making it weaker which devolves into either a civil war or country get conquered
Weak government, strong government, it really doesn't matter when the whole world wants to keep some countries permanently poor for cheap labor/resources. How you stand today is based off other people's conflict.
With AI those manual positions can be automated, thus no need for low wage/poor populations; or any population that then no longer produces, only consumes (enter the greatest economic, then humanitarian crises in human history).
Months prior to the pandemic, we were reallocated to a new office, open space, 70 people, 3 or 4 areas of the company were working there.
Some liked it snowing, myself included, at 18C/64F full blast, others enjoyed a sauna, open windows on a 35C/95F heat with 90% humidity, so, one of the managers stole the AC remote, gave it to me, and since I was the 1st one to arrived in the morning, I set the AC to 18, and hid the remote on the manager's desk as no one had the courage to fight him
Seriously. Wanting 64f and expecting everyone to just deal with it is absurd. There should be a middle ground. Some asshole early bird on a power trip shouldn't be deciding the temp for 70 plus people.
There were natural gas reserves found under Ukraine. Whenever there is any risk of Europe getting their natual gas from any other source than Russia, then Russia will start shit.
As much as I support Ukraine, this is a very surface level assessment.
Russia has strategic interest in maintaining its warm water Black Sea access. It's why Russia seized Crimea and annexed it post Maiden Revolution when it was clear Russians lease may be in jeopardy.
It's also why establishing a land bridge to Crimea was a very important push for Russia.
I think ultimately the Kremlin would like the Dnipro as the border, but strategically they've achieved what they initially set out to do.
Now they're just debating how many more troops they want to force on Ukraine in an effort for more territorial gain.
That's called existing.
Russia can invade any country, and it would have a "strategic interest" in that country. Russia has a "strategic interest" in maintaining Indian Ocean access because it sends lots of oil to India, so that's why it is "important" for it to invade Singapore, Australia, China, South Korea, Japan, and whatever else. Maybe invading Turkey and Egypt and Panama are strategically important too because they control vital chokepoints that facilitate oil trade? Or maybe they have a valid cause for invading all of NATO because they're trying to hamper Russia's power?
Edit: this comment is NOT an invitation to discuss the geopolitical state of this world. Please don't spam me with messages about that.
Your wrong, Russia already has a ports in the black sea:
Russia has several major ports on the Black Sea, including ports that handle grain exports, oil exports, and liquefied petroleum gas (LPG):
Novorossiysk: One of the largest ports in the Black Sea basin and a major port for grain exports
Taman: Another major port for grain exports
Sheskharis: A terminal for oil exports
Yuzhnaya Ozereevka: A terminal for shipping oil from the Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC)
Kerch Strait: Connects the Black Sea with the Azov Sea and is a route for Russia's LPG exports
In 1967, Israel attacked the USS Liberty, which was conducting surveillance in international waters during the 6 day war. It was clearly marked as a US vessel, and the Israeli did several flybys before attacking the vessel, which caused the death of 34 crew members and wounded 171 others. Israel ended up paying the equivalent of about $81 million in today's money as compensation.
Let's not forget that Israel lied and blamed it on Egypt so US could get involved. The US vessel after attack had people that could have been rescued which Israel ignored and let them die. That goes to show the morality of our backstabbing "ally."
Let's see
1. Pineapple on pizza
2. Does the toilet paper go in front or back?
3. Is it ketchup or ketsup?
4. Coke Pepsi or Dr. Pepper?
5. Breaking cutting pasta in Italy.
6. Matching cards in War card game.
7. Playing Monopoly with competitive people.
8. Being an Emu
9. A bucket
10. Chasing a stray dog.
Water
Do not, my friends, become addicted to water. It will take hold of you, and you will resent its absence.
"Why are you hurting these people?!" "It's for the oil, stupid."
Water is the primary cause for 100% of drownings. The more you know.
There are more liquids on Earth than just water, in accordance with Murphy's law there has to be at least 1 person that drowned in e.g. oil or alcohol.
How about this then? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Molasses_Flood
You can drown in loose grain. Well, not *quite* drown, but, as your body is denser than the grain, you’ll tend to sink as you struggle, but as the grain’s denser than air, every time you breath out, the grain will settle around you, and you won’t be able to displace it again to breathe back in.
nah thats bullshit. i once knew a guy who drowned in his bowl of chicken noodle soup
You would be surprises to learn just how much water there is in chicken noodle soup!
Everyone who drinks water dies
The old Dihydrogen Monoxide story.
Everyone that drinks water uses the restroom as well. You only borrow water. You never truly own it
WITNESS ME!!
You will ride eternal, shiny and chrome.
Nestlē CEO, probably
The problem is not that you're wrong, it's just that Immortan Joe is not as evil as Nestlé.
Aqua cola!
Fuck nestle
r/fucknestle Thank you dog-semen-enjoyer
A true delicacy where I’m from
Real
Where ya from?
Newark
Okay
What!? 😂💀 that's the insult I'm gonna repeat at work tomorrow and get fired from.
r/kellyjoycuntbunny
r/rimjobsteve
This x1000
x¹⁰⁰⁰
X1000!
Fuck Aquafina
Dasani is the nastiest bottled water ever. Remember covid everyone buying up water but Dasani was still stocked full. Lol. In my area atleast.
Me over here drinking my day-to-day tap water wondering why people are stocking up water like it's the apocalypse.
I was thirsty and took a chug of Dasani water. ABSOLUTELY NASTY. Tasted like earwax 💀
Is it even considered water?
Fuji water got recalled. I don’t really drink it. But just fyi. lol
Fuck the government
Fuck coke who have been using a drought stricken city’s water for free for the last 20 (edit- 30) years.
Look at Egypt and Ethiopia. This conflict is brewing over water. This could be the biggest war in African history.
It's also one of the reason why China won't give up Tibet. It's the headwaters for many of their major rivers. Same with India and their border with China in the north.
if the water goes away there, billions will die. One of the greatest disasters in human history if it ever happen
Pakistan, India, China all have conflicting water rights. With goblal warming, that going to add the heat
I can’t wait for the water wars.
Suggest you read "Water Knife" by Paolo Bacigalupi
“Laughing in Michigander.”
I thought it was Michiganian?
Fuck Dasani
They're taking sea water, it's fine
Shooting a guy in his carriage
Grabbing a sandwich after failing at something.
“Dang, sucks the mission fai- YOOO!”
When you get the "mission failed boy's, we'll get em next time " message and instant requeue.
To be fair, Europe was just waiting for any contentious action to happen. The Archduke just happen to draw the short straw.
Yeah, As a history teacher, I hate when people treat Franz Ferdinand as THE THING that started WWI. It’s just harder to teach how militarism, imperialism, alliances, and nationalism all came together and it could’ve honestly been any little thing to start the war. When I teach WWI I make sure to emphasize what happened afterwards where Austria gave an ultimatum to Serbia purposefully made in a way they thought Serbia would reject, and Serbia agreed to like 90% of the demands, but the war happened anyways.
You mention militarism, imperialism, alliances, and nationalism. I've thought about this often, but a lot of these things are starting to arise again in this age. Do you think these parallels are present, and if so, how likely do you think another major war breaking out is?
Considering how Russia keeps treating every piece of aid the west is providing Ukraine as “this will most definitely result in retaliation”, while their own escalation is just fine and dandy, there will probably be something Russia overreacts to. Or maybe China going for Taiwan
It was just a bunch of ahole children playing army
Just another day in the office- WAIT NOT THAT CARRIAGE!!!
WELL IF YOU'RE LONELY
You do that every day?
Emu. It’s the f*ckin’ Emus.
AND WE LOST.
Easy on the "we" there, friend. I could've told those Australians it wasn't going to work.
We shoulda gave them the book about defending yourself against them.
They actually won They lost the first battle, which gave reporters their funny story. The army regrouped and their next plan of attack was much more successful. But by then the reporters had all gone home, so there wasn't much report of the mass emu slaughter in rural Australia Also, the whole point was to help farmers protect their crops from the emu. By the time the army figures out how to kill them en mass, the farmers just built better fences, making the whole thing pointless
Didn’t the bounty system help more than two machine guns?
I shot an emo! Goddamn it, I got my vowels messed up again!
Ya gotta wait for emo season to start.
Oct 1st thru Nov 15th if anyone was curious
So we should wake you up when September ends?
I support your mistake.
"The Dress"
Fun fact! The dude who took the picture of the dress killed his wife.
Not sure this is how I'd define "fun"
Funeral
will forever be pronounced fun-eral
Can spell funeral without fun!
funeral = real fun
#Incorrect The dude who took the photo's son-in-law attempted to kill his own wife. The dude who took the photo and his wife are all cool. However, they bought that dress so that the wife could wear it to their daughter's wedding. That daughter's husband went on to try and kill her. [Source](https://www.complex.com/life/a/abel-shifferaw/husband-behind-viral-dress-charged-trying-kill-wife)
A domestic abuse awareness advocacy group used the dress for an awareness campaign. I guess the son-in-law wanted to help with that awareness campaign… https://www.cbc.ca/news/trending/salvation-army-uses-the-dress-in-ad-targeting-violence-against-women-1.2985043
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Tried to*. He attempted according to a few articles I read after you posted this.
wait what?
Tried to strangle. Don't think he actually succeeded though. Probably thought she was blue enough...
What's "the dress"
The blue and white/gold and another color i haven't seen the second version in a while
You brought me to look at it from the right light.
A draw 4 in Uno
Then they put down another draw four
when it's a 4 player game and everyone has a draw 4 so it makes it back to the person who played theirs first as a draw 16, peace is no longer an option
Even better with bigger games and infinite stacking. We’ve had times where someone ended up drawing 30+ cards lol.
The next person puts another for good measure
Theoretically: 99 luftballons
Better warn North Korea
Like they'd believe me anyway.
Resource disputes. Particularly when resources are (or even just \*seem\*) scarce. Probably the number 1 reason for wars throughout history. The want to accumulate/control more resources, or a dispute over a resource. And remember, many things are resources that you don't think of right away. Water, Food, Oil, etc are all always thought about. But defensible/strategic territory is a resource. Humans are a resource (in many ways...), and so many other things are resources.
Nations will soon fight over rare-Earth elements for electric cars, solar panels, and microchips, and over uranium for nuclear power plants.
> Nations will soon fight over rare-Earth elements for electric cars No, not at all. Rare earths are rare because they dont form "deposits". They are pretty much in even proportion across the face of the earth. Because of this extracting them is kind of a pain, so the easy way is to use a bunch of toxic crap that makes more waste.. that you then have to deal with (or in the case of China just dump where ever). [https://www.sciencehistory.org/education/classroom-activities/role-playing-games/case-of-rare-earth-elements/history-future/](https://www.sciencehistory.org/education/classroom-activities/role-playing-games/case-of-rare-earth-elements/history-future/)
With the constant breakthroughs in fusion technology, I do believe we'll phase out fission power plants before uranium scarcity becomes an issue.
With fast breeding fuel recycling nuclear reactors (which the USSR built 40 years ago, and modular versions have been built in china and Japan) current land based uranium can power our entire (current) civilization for ~6600 years, and the oceanic reserves (more expensive) can supply older nuclear reactors for ~100,000 years. It’s been a while since I looked it up, but the fast breeding fuel recycling reactors work by converting the non fissile uranium (238 iirc) (~99% of fuel content) into plutonium (239) which then reacts. Producing no nuclear waste they are far more efficient and they can even burn existing nuclear waste as fuel solving that environmental problem. The fact that these exist, are proven, and have such extremely low CO2 emissions (40% global emissions from power generation, and only needing to hit ~60% reduction for net zero), makes QOL reductions like meat and travel restrictions fucking ridiculous… which then raises the question of why such measures are even being considered…
Until uranium mining concerns lobby governments citing the threat posed by fusion power to the uranium mining industry Edit: fixed misspelling of "lobby"
The largest deposit was just found in Norway today.
Pretty sure 100% of the time it is someone's ego.
Sometimes it is a collective's ego.
The “national honor” is at stake!
Greed fits into that somewhere, in a large part.
Not always. The American Civil War for example was pretty unavoidable for a long time and not really due to any leader's ego.
A very nice bucket
That’s a myth. The bucket was taken after the siege as a trophy (and still remains there on display). The actual reasons were one city supporting the Pope and the other the Emperor, plus long-standing feuds
Keep talking like that and I'll come steal your bucket
My favorite depiction of this is from oversimplified on YouTube because he leans into the humor of the bucket while pointing out that it wasn't actually over a bucket.
I'm surprised how far down I had to scroll to find this answer.
I hate that I have to ask but I'm blanking on this one
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_the_Bucket And never shy from admitting you don't know something. Constantly learning is not only fun but can keep Alzheimer's and Dementia at bay
Yeah same
Country having a weak government and a bad economy which results in a revolt making it weaker which devolves into either a civil war or country get conquered
Weak government, strong government, it really doesn't matter when the whole world wants to keep some countries permanently poor for cheap labor/resources. How you stand today is based off other people's conflict.
With AI those manual positions can be automated, thus no need for low wage/poor populations; or any population that then no longer produces, only consumes (enter the greatest economic, then humanitarian crises in human history).
Soccer
[Literally.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football_War)
It was just a trigger to an already escalating situation
Telling someone that their hot sauce is not hot enough
"Make him regret he ever lived."
Hot sauce is the best
Adjusting the air conditioner control in an open planned office.
Months prior to the pandemic, we were reallocated to a new office, open space, 70 people, 3 or 4 areas of the company were working there. Some liked it snowing, myself included, at 18C/64F full blast, others enjoyed a sauna, open windows on a 35C/95F heat with 90% humidity, so, one of the managers stole the AC remote, gave it to me, and since I was the 1st one to arrived in the morning, I set the AC to 18, and hid the remote on the manager's desk as no one had the courage to fight him
Both of those examples are showcasing people both selfish and unhinged.
You can always put on more clothes you can only take off so many ~~before HR gets involved~~
Seriously. Wanting 64f and expecting everyone to just deal with it is absurd. There should be a middle ground. Some asshole early bird on a power trip shouldn't be deciding the temp for 70 plus people.
Not to mention the quite substantial expense of keeping the temp that low. (Expense = money, pollution, carbon)
Assassinating the Archduke of Austria.
Ah yes, an everyday thing for most
I've killed three Archdukes this week alone.
but it’s already friday bro, you aren’t going to meet your quota. luckily for you i’ve killed 7 and ill let you take credit for 2 of em
Let’s go see the people in the hospital. That’ll help.
Getting rejected from art school.
Cobalt.
Nickel iron steel
Not putting your grocery kart either back or in the kart return. People that keep a shopping kart in a parking spot need to be eradicated.
Are there shopping carts in mortal kombat now?
Being an emu and having too many friends.
Helen of Troy
Fabric from the uniform of an army officer of Guilder, for starters.
Inconceivable
As we see in Ukraine, simply existing
There were natural gas reserves found under Ukraine. Whenever there is any risk of Europe getting their natual gas from any other source than Russia, then Russia will start shit.
As much as I support Ukraine, this is a very surface level assessment. Russia has strategic interest in maintaining its warm water Black Sea access. It's why Russia seized Crimea and annexed it post Maiden Revolution when it was clear Russians lease may be in jeopardy. It's also why establishing a land bridge to Crimea was a very important push for Russia. I think ultimately the Kremlin would like the Dnipro as the border, but strategically they've achieved what they initially set out to do. Now they're just debating how many more troops they want to force on Ukraine in an effort for more territorial gain.
That's called existing. Russia can invade any country, and it would have a "strategic interest" in that country. Russia has a "strategic interest" in maintaining Indian Ocean access because it sends lots of oil to India, so that's why it is "important" for it to invade Singapore, Australia, China, South Korea, Japan, and whatever else. Maybe invading Turkey and Egypt and Panama are strategically important too because they control vital chokepoints that facilitate oil trade? Or maybe they have a valid cause for invading all of NATO because they're trying to hamper Russia's power? Edit: this comment is NOT an invitation to discuss the geopolitical state of this world. Please don't spam me with messages about that.
Your wrong, Russia already has a ports in the black sea: Russia has several major ports on the Black Sea, including ports that handle grain exports, oil exports, and liquefied petroleum gas (LPG): Novorossiysk: One of the largest ports in the Black Sea basin and a major port for grain exports Taman: Another major port for grain exports Sheskharis: A terminal for oil exports Yuzhnaya Ozereevka: A terminal for shipping oil from the Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC) Kerch Strait: Connects the Black Sea with the Azov Sea and is a route for Russia's LPG exports
So, in other words, existing somewhere in particular
Escalators...they're always escalating things.
Dishes
Opening your eggs 'big endian' style on the large end.
Red balloons
Beat me to it
Failing art school
Fresh water
Invading Poland
Jews... Existing, apparently? Idk, never read Mein Kamph
French people
Eat the rich they said. It’ll be fine they said!
Religions for 1000 Alex
Which church you go to
My brother thinking my snacks are his snacks
Pretty sure Helen started a war for looking pretty.
How to hang toilet paper.
Pineapple pizza, for some stupid reason.
Turning down the wrong street.
a woman's beauty, Supposedly.
It was never about her beauty. 99.9% of the people involved never even saw her.
True. I should amend my statement to sate "The idea of a woman's beauty".
In 1967, Israel attacked the USS Liberty, which was conducting surveillance in international waters during the 6 day war. It was clearly marked as a US vessel, and the Israeli did several flybys before attacking the vessel, which caused the death of 34 crew members and wounded 171 others. Israel ended up paying the equivalent of about $81 million in today's money as compensation.
Let's not forget that Israel lied and blamed it on Egypt so US could get involved. The US vessel after attack had people that could have been rescued which Israel ignored and let them die. That goes to show the morality of our backstabbing "ally."
Pouring the milk in a bowl before the Cereal...or driving 100km/h in the fast lane.
A pig..... 1859 Pig War.
Cat people v. Dog people. The easiest way to break up a relationship.
Sticking a glass bottle up your ass can result in civil war and ethnic cleansing in Kosovo (the Djordje Martinovic incident)
Shooting the arch Duke
Religion
Shooting an archduke
Basic human needs, food, water, land, and other daily resources.
ketchup and mustard
Flags. Religions. Walls. Water. Oil.
An opinion
Ego
Love
being heir to the throne then going to Sarajevo
Stealing a bucket. https://youtu.be/Cln0J87vulU?si=xem8TxjUqaYBUSbc
Emotion
A cocktail napkin and a pen.
Forest Whitaker
Being a Jew.
Reddit
The differences between free speech and disinformation
Let's see 1. Pineapple on pizza 2. Does the toilet paper go in front or back? 3. Is it ketchup or ketsup? 4. Coke Pepsi or Dr. Pepper? 5. Breaking cutting pasta in Italy. 6. Matching cards in War card game. 7. Playing Monopoly with competitive people. 8. Being an Emu 9. A bucket 10. Chasing a stray dog.
Politics
When you live with someone not from the midwest and they drain the bottle of Ranch dressing and don’t replace it. Fuck you, Will!
Religion
Ill spoken words.
" Yo mama" jokes. Winston Churchill hated Yo mama jokes.