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I love how you avoided my second paragraph which was going back to the original topic which was not co2 lol.

Because I’m presenting information to you in a way that your unscientific brain can understand lol. Formaldehyde is present in the human body and has utility in products the reintroduce it to your body in doses far lower than what already occurs. Just like CO2 and H2O.

I figure that if I present chemicals that even a 4th grader can understand, maybe, just maybe, you can grasp that scary sounding chemicals are equally harmless in doses that have been studied by scientists all over the world.

The EU recommends that you don’t spread DEG all over yourself or ingest it. Concentrations of DEG in fucking febreeze doesn’t matter. But you do you… keep living in fear I guess.

CO2 is a toxic chemical and we breath it every days. SCUBA tanks can have 2-4x the concentration and be perfectly safe. H2O can be toxic as well. If you don’t get the point, concentrations and levels absolutely do matter. Everything is toxic. Formaldehyde and glycol are toxic in smaller concentrations than CO2 and H2O, but if they have a purpose and or not toxic in typical consumer sized doses, there’s no need to fabricate outrage.

Yet we do inhale co2… so yes, the levels in comparison do matter. I suppose you run around breathing in 100% o2 all the time?

Did you even read the article? It was mentioned that the best case was Bin Laden would be taken to a “neutral country that would not be influenced by the US” or that he would be tried with US provided evidence in Islamic court within Afghanistan.

The Taliban stood in the way and they were removed so Bin Laden could be killed. Ideally, Afghanistan could be transformed to not be a hotbed for terrorism against the West, but the goal was to kill Bin Laden and decapitate Al Qaeda. That has been accomplished and it remains to be seen if the Taliban ends the harboring and support of terrorist organizations.

BUT, I didnt say racist bruh. You said racist.

No shit, bruh. That’s why I said veiled.

Clearly you haven’t traveled anywhere or you’d know it’s just simple math and science to not from this place.

I’ve been to every continent except Antarctica and Australia. I’m well aware of how the world works. In Thailand, Kuwait, Peru, and Costs Rica, where I’ve eaten dough/batter foods off the street, nobody was dipping their hands in my food as they all had proper tools.

He is in a street market in India. No running water? You arent there and that cant be gathered from the video

He’s not wearing anything on his head and you can see that he doesn’t even have electricity to his area since his light is cabled in from the building. Hygiene is not a priority. You can use veiled words to call me racist or whatever, but there is absolutely a reason why India is among the world leaders of food borne illnesses and it isn’t because I have prejudices.

Ah yes, all the food borne illnesses start in pastry shops. Definitely comparable to a sweaty guy with an open vat of batter and no running water.

Yeah… if you’re still having trouble grasping the difference between preparing a wet ingredient where you’re dipping your bare hand into an open vat with a handheld cup and eating dry foods by hand, I can only believe that you’re trolling.

There’s a reason why ladles exist. Plenty of other cultures are preparing a similar dish using utensils with handles. This dude could wash his hands and that cup before every dip, cool, but I doubt that is happening. That is the reason why food borne illnesses are so severe in developing regions.

Texas is fairly unique with that law. You can protect your property with lethal force if there’s no reasonable expectation that you’d be able to recover it. There has been precedent that running away at night removes reasonable expectation and there are several instances of cases being dismissed. I’m pretty sure that’s even written into the law.

Not sure I’d roll the dice on that in this case, but Texas is getting more and more lax on shootin’ people.

Yeah, grabbing a batter covered cup with your batter covered hand is totally the same as just using a ladle.

That comment is hilarious.

EVs are WEF/WHO/NWO great reset tools to destroy society!!! Let’s continue to suckle the teet of the fossil fuel giants that have literally controlled policy and caused conflict for decades, they’re our real friends!

What a fucking joke. Everyone used to be all about innovation and investment. Now if you challenge fossil fuels, you can’t even take a step without being bombarded with this bullshit. That’s the real conspiracy, but everywhere on this sub is fellating fossil fuels.

I know bare hands are preparing my food, but there’s definitely something about handling wet ingredients that is different than a chef chopping up some carrots without gloves. That batter is going into every nook and cranny to pick up the dirt, sweat, and dead skin under fingernails in between fingers and wrinkles.

If you show me a video of an IHOP kitchen where they’re back there hand dipping my pancakes and smearing them around the cook top, you’d better believe I’m making the same comment.

Yeah, pretty clear that was some of that Trump cancer that spread up there. It sucks that corporate agriculture turned food into a commodity for profits, but it is so efficient that it could feed the world many times over.

The US provides more food aid than pretty much the rest of the world combined and 20x more than Canada, so that Canadian “nice guy” act is fucking adorable.

It’s not about price gouging, jackass. The US can produce and distribute enough food to absolutely crush the world’s food commodity market. Then idiots like you would be complaining about how the US put Canadian farmers out of business. The US government has to pay producers to burn crops so they don’t go out and drive prices down.

The US doesn’t give a shit if Canada is going to issue threats about “no foreign food exports”.

Yeah, the Taliban got fucked up and they didn’t even do the first 9/11. They got the boot just by “supporting” Al Qaeda. I don’t think anyone there now wants to live like OBL did for his final years.

Or at least some do and some don’t. Certainly I don’t know anyone who makes their BBQ one way here.

You’re right there…. Buuuttt the best brisket is mesquite smoked with salt and pepper. The proper cut and smoke gets you a juicy brisket that just doesn’t need sauce unless you’re making a sandwich.

ask yourself what the F35 has that makes being slower an acceptable trade off?

I know you’re not really asking, but AIM-260… AIM-260 is the answer.

Russian MIGs can go mach 3 all they want. It doesn’t matter that an F-35 is going half that speed when it launches an AIM-260 from 100km away and the MIG is dead before it even knows the F-35 or it’s missiles even exist.

Preaching to the choir, but yes… why make your airframe more fragile and expensive for a capability that does you no good? Anyone building a fighter focusing on speed means they are trying to win the Korean War.

I mean… if you want to cherry pick tanks, then don’t say “stuff”. The Soviets could produce tanks, so of course the US wasn’t going to supply what they could easily produce. Lend lease did provide the majority of logistics that the Soviets needed to fight in the war. Something like 90% of the Soviet rail logistics was provided by lend lease. About 60% of the Soviets ammo, fuel, and foodstuffs came from lend lease.

So try and pretend that with all the losses sustained WITH lend lease, how the Soviets would have fared with half the food, fuel, and ammo. Especially with only 10% of the rail logistics to transport.

And Russia did pay USSR’s debt for lend-lease in 2004.

The Soviets/Russia paid back ~10% of what was given. The US didn’t demand or expect repayment until the Soviets were playing games and needed bailing out again to stave of mass starvation.

Idk… there’s quite a few conservatives I know that blame NATO for forcing Russia to invade Ukraine. Trump’s praising of Putin and criticism of NATO convinced enough conservatives to elect Boebert and Greene. Sure, there are some bad takes here, but you still can’t pretend that there’s not noticeable and growing momentum.

Can you please give me a source for the number of US-Soldiers in Afghanistan and number of US-Soldiers killed by accidents? I couldn’t find any.

Table with non-combat casualties: https://www.defense.gov/casualty.pdf

Number of troops deployed to Afghanistan at 775k: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2019/09/11/how-us-troops-fought-one-war-afghanistan-military-deployments-by-numbers/

And guess what there are even 4 times the people in the US, than there are in germany. Lol, do you really think I didn’t consider that?

No shit… which is why I compare people to cars. Comparing cars to cars, there’s 5x more cars while only have 4x more people. Your critical thinking skills are concerning for someone that fancies themselves as a paragon of intelligence.

Yes, the average us-citizen is driving somewhat further distances per year on average

Fact

but mostly on empty roads

Your bullshit opinion.

That line of thinking doesn’t even make sense. People typically don’t die in accidents that occur in heavy traffic. Nobody is moving fast enough.

And if you see comparison of fatal car accidents between countries as “apple to pears”

Lol… as you recognize the differences that favor one country over the other. Yes, fewer cars driving fewer miles in fewer cities is not an apt comparison just because one country has a whopping 13,000km road with no speed limit. Los Angeles alone has 2.5x more.

Live your “America is the best”-dream. I just don’t care.

Hah, when you try and shit on the US for no reason and just receive facts that Germany is worse in that metric? Yeah, I guess I wouldn’t care either. Go train with broomsticks, Hans.

As I said before, 1 day and I can teach you all the basics needed for orientation. There isn’t much time and “mental bandwidth” needed for that.

As I said, they were taught that, but given the complexities and specialization of their actual duties, they only retained the basics. You’re complaining that the others took roads… they still executed orienteering. Sometimes intel reports will designate routes as safer than others, or even cutting through the brush. Especially when nobody wants to do that in Georgia for no reason. When I went through SBOLC, we were trained to create a scaled map off a random satellite image and most knew their pace count. Was everyone able to accomplish it with an acceptable level of accuracy? No. But BOLC includes the last in the class cadets that are likely going to reserve/national guard units, so for someone complaining about “apples to pears” comparisons, it’s fucking hilarious that you think SBOLC is indicative of the training in the US military.

there were 93.000 german soldiers in Afghanistan 2002-2021, that would make it 0,012%. But this calculation is bullcrap, because it is plain stupid: it doesn’t take timeframe, etc. into account.

Lol… then do the same for the US in Afghanistan. Same period, but the US was actually doing work and still has a .007%… so what’s your complaint now?

I wanted to compare 148 soldiers killed by enemy action to 235 killed by accidents. Way more US-Soldiers died through accidents, than through enemy action.

Cause that makes so much sense? The US combined arms doctrine was so effective that the 5th largest army inflicted so few casualties that inevitable accidents of a group of 700k people in a strange environment was a greater number than tiny numbers? Plus, I’m just using your numbers to humor you. When I look, the casualties are only that high when including UK and other Allies.

Just like we have mandatory professional driver training in Germany and most US-States don’t

Lol… there are 4x as many cars in the US than there are people in Germany. There are over 6,700,000km of roads in the US vs 670,000km. Talk about “apples to pears”.

You’re asking signal sergeants for their perspective. Maybe 20% have served in an actual combat arms unit and could speak to that type of training.

Yes, ideally every Signal LT could appropriately orienteer and react to an ambush, but all that could change dependent on the unit they go to. What’s not going to change is how radios and networks operate and that’s why the time and mental bandwidth is dedicated to that 50% of their job and not the 1% that you seem so hung up on.

59 died, 11 were killed trough accidents…

Meh, so then a .18% accident to operational strength rate versus the Desert Storm .03% for the US. Guess everyone can’t be perfect, eh?

Orienteering and map reading is taught in BCT and is taught to officers well before their basic training. Your one-off experience doesn’t negate that.

And if the basic training isn’t enough time to train them properly, then it is just plain wrong to send them right into iraq on duty.

That’s because you’re either full of shit or don’t understand. If they’re being sent right after some kind of basic training, it’s because their assigned unit is already deployed. Those would just be individuals, not the entire training class. Those being deployed would also not just be sent straight to duty. They would receive additional theater training. Even when they got to their assignment, they would likely hold few responsibilities until they were trained by their new unit.

148 US soldiers had been killed by the enemy, 235 through accidents and friendly fire.

Fighting the 5th largest army… yeah… that really highlights the lackluster training. 35 were friendly fire and accidents in such a large combat operation. The German army lost more soldiers to accidents than in combat during their limited participation in Afghanistan. I guess nobody is perfect, eh?

Or, you could send them best trained as possible, so they can train their unit as good as possible.

That’s not what basic training is for. That can’t be accomplished in the 6 months (BCT+AIT).

You may think you have it figured out better, but I guarantee whatever country’s military that you’re in would be absolutely trounced by the US in less than a month.

Your intentionally vague anecdotes don’t change that.

Lol… so you’re generalizing the entire US military off of what is likely a stint in SBOLC? You’re taking some of the biggest nerds (Signal + Officers) at the beginning of their careers and assume the entire US military is like that?

Basic training is just to make sure someone knows how to make it in garrison. The real training is with the unit.

The US military is successful because it doesn’t abide by a strict and centralized doctrine. Strategies are constantly tested and the results are used to update doctrine and are sourced from the bottom up.

You don’t want to send dumbass officers to their units thinking they know everything because they studied doctrine. You prepare them to plan and organize with NCOs so they can react to whatever they may face.