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coco, in pew pew pew

There someone behind the US ….Saudi

Num10ck,

or maybe mother nature.

Siegfried, in Americans

Jokes aside, there is no better way to learn geography than studying war. Shit just starts sticking in your brain.

Americans you are not alone

JJROKCZ,

A game called terra invicta (HOI4 mixed with xcom) has really been helping my modern geography of late

mcmoor,

That’s why Paradox games are best games for geography!

not_fond_of_reddit, in dark tower deck supremacy

Ha! Joke is on you… my back always hurts! 😢

affiliate, in How many do you need?! *sobs*

couches are but another victim to the interior decorator’s aversion to uncluttered flat surfaces

Misconduct,

You guys are crazy. I don’t really do decorative pillows but I will not abide a sofa in my house that isn’t covered with soft comfy things to burrow under

affiliate,

my couch is barren and made of rock, any comfort must come from within

Misconduct,

That’s either amazing for your back or crippling there is no inbetween lol

gonta,

True stoic right here.

Omega_Haxors, in When you need to disable ads and give access to the microphone

If this ever gets implemented the amount of bricks being delivered through HQ windows would skyrocket.

lelgenio, in Very misleading name
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A_Union_of_Kobolds,

TM 31-210 is fascinating stuff

MinekPo1,
@MinekPo1@lemmygrad.ml avatar

the author is not Irish not sure if I can trust it.

azimir, in Very misleading name

The original Anarchist Cookbook was incredibly scary to the feds. It was filled with mostly useless and dangerous (mostly to the “Anarchist”), but the name and the feelings at the end of the Vietnam war captured the public’s attention.

It was passed around mostly by Xerox machine or fax copies. By the time I saw a version in the late 80’s the one I ran into was a blurry and unreadable mess. The original author is on record saying that he had no idea what he was doing when he wrote it and that no one should follow any of the bomb making bits because he’d never made one himself.

Even with all of that, it holds a serious impact on our communal memory and social ideas. The name alone is going to live forever, even if the original text is lost to time.

GrammatonCleric,
@GrammatonCleric@lemmy.world avatar

I used to print it off of a BBS on dot matrix 😂

Omega_Haxors,

Fun fact: one of the runescape quests uses a recipe from the anarchist’s cookbook.

SilentStorms,

There’s a book called Recipes For Disaster by Crimethinc, which is an actual Anarchist Cookbook, has less bombs and stuff, but there’s a lot of neat stuff that will actually work.

NaoPb,

I knew it…

queue,
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It’s a neat idea, and the name is so good. I even saw on an .onion site that had it told in plain text, and the visuals were ASCII recreations.

There is a (conspiracy) theory that the writer was actually working for a government since a lot of the instructions don’t work, or would potentially kill the person making it. Thus anyone who tried to follow it would not get results or die from making a project at home.

Seeing as it was published in 1971, and the FBI’s COINTELPRO ended that year, it’s not impossible. They hated anarchists and anyone too “un-american”.

That said, zero proof. Hence the conspiracy in conspiracy theory.

seitanic,
@seitanic@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

That said, zero proof. Hence the conspiracy in conspiracy theory.

Conspiracies are real, and they happen all the time. A conspiracy is just a group of people colluding in secret. It has nothing to do with proof.

The problem I have with the term “conspiracy theory” isn’t the word “conspiracy”; it’s the word “theory”. These aren’t theories. They’re bullshit. “Conspiracy bullshit” sounds much better.

queue,
@queue@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Well put.

Omega_Haxors, (edited ) in *Mom plugs in the Flowbee*

I went and got myself a peasant haircut because of this post.

umbraroze, in Americans
@umbraroze@kbin.social avatar

God clearly failed, then. George W. Bush kept bombing places that he couldn't pronounce.

GeneralEmergency, in When you need to disable ads and give access to the microphone

Amazing. Ten years of this image and you dumbfucks still think this is going to happen tomorrow.

Omega_Haxors,

Quintessential smug asshole who thinks they’re smarter than everyone in the room not realizing they’re the only one taking the joke seriously.

Sotuanduso,

I didn’t think it was a joke.

Draedron,

You are in r/memes

Sotuanduso,

I’ve seen my fair share of non-jokes here, especially political ones.

UnculturedSwine, in *Mom plugs in the Flowbee*

This was actually my pappy doing my hair growing up. That fukkn’ flowbee sucked not because it was attached to a vacuum but because my dad would constantly hit me in the head with it trying to get the correct length. He kept the blades nice and oiled tho.

Track_Shovel,
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I’m glad I’m not the only one who has a TBI as a result of a Flowbee incident

Tb0n3, in Americans

Not the British, French, or Dutch?

eltimablo,

Of course not. America is the only nation on earth capable of perpetrating evil, ghod.

Ghostalmedia, in And the world was flat, like an Italian pizza
@Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world avatar

Italian blood cells are made of salami.

American blood cells, depending upon blood type, are either pepperoni or cut up hotdogs.

xusontha, in Americans
Pandantic,
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To be fair, I bet there is a town named Iran in the US. There’s a Cuba, Bolivia, Lebanon, and others.

Okay, I just looked it up and no, but you can see where I coming from - lots of places named after foreign countries/cities. It probably is stupidity, but with included confusion.

xusontha,

Yeah, I see what you mean but the majority is still most likely stupidity (though there is probably at least one because of that)

jaybone,

I wonder if it asked them to point out “the country of Iran.”

Of course people also confuse cities and states. Like on the game shows, people will say things like Los Angeles when they mean California, and vice versa.

zeppo,
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Why would they be guessing Arkansas?

CavalierBob,

American here. Have you been to Arkansas?

zeppo,
@zeppo@lemmy.world avatar

I know it’s a rhetorical question, but briefly. I ate a burrito in Fort Smith, stayed at a crappy motel by Fayetteville one time in the shadow of Jesus billboards, and drove through Little Rock. It was very “natural”.

jaybone,

How are the burritos in Arkansas?

zeppo,
@zeppo@lemmy.world avatar

It was a very average burrito in a sit-down Mexican restaurant, one of those places that has a nice building and atmosphere but seems to cater to a midwestern palate. I think it was La Huerta Grill. Probably would have been better any state to the Southwest of there. Looking at the map now, if I was there again, I’d go to a pupusa place… those are always super good.

xusontha,

Because both have an N at the end of the second syllable of their name (I have no idea)

Blackout,
@Blackout@kbin.social avatar

Wishful thinking

lugal,

I can’t decide which is worse: those in the USA or those in the ocean

someguy3,

Could be a small island!

Demonicwolf227,

It would be really funny if they asked latitude and longitude instead of asking them to point on a map. Suddenly the data becomes very impressive.

Kase,

turns out 23% of americans are geography gods

xusontha,

I’m not sure either…

Ilovethebomb,

A large chunk of them, well over half, had the general part of the world right. Honestly better than I expected.

Turun,

Yeah, I’d say ~50% are close enough to be considered basically correct.

Rip Italy though.

jaybone,

It skews pretty far into Europe though, which surprised me.

Ilovethebomb,

It does, yes. A lot of them are centered around the Persian gulf, so there seems to be a strong “it’s around here somewhere” approach.

JSens1998,

More like I-ran away from history class. Am I right guys?

Philipp,

With the new shoes from Apple. m.youtube.com/watch?v=rw2nkoGLhrE

masquenox,

TIL there’s a disturbing amount of USians who think Iran is actually Atlantis.

Ddhuud,

I would like to know the context of this survey. Who in the world gets asked where is a country and points to the middle of the sea

xusontha,

probably doing it because they think it’s funny or something like that

Archlinuxforever,
@Archlinuxforever@lemmy.3cm.us avatar

These types of tests are invalid because people are going to troll.

dubyakay,

Well, has Iran been at war with the US at any point in time? No. Checkmate.

BolexForSoup, (edited )
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  • xusontha,

    I do wonder what the statistics would be for the other countries

    JJROKCZ,

    Western european countries would definitely do better. Every time I see one of those videos of a guy on the street asking people geography the Americans are completely worthless but and random european is almost perfect. Americans can’t even get their states of our own country correct

    PersnickityPenguin,

    Actually 23% is a pretty good stat?

    Do you really think that many people Iranians are mermaids?

    Rascabin, in Americans

    Nice try, Kane

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