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Cake day: June 23rd, 2023

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  • The problem with that is, Japan was willing to fight on after the first bomb. They tried labelling it a natural disaster at first; if the second bomb wasn’t dropped, they probably wouldn’t have surrendered. Sure they could have waited longer to confirm that, but then there’s more troops dying on both sides while they wait - more unnecessary deaths.


  • I’ll eat up anything they put out:
    Perun (War economics, logistics, procurement, etc)
    The Chieftain (Tank history and doctrine)
    CGP Grey (Deep dives on random topics)
    The Operations Room (High quality visualizations of historical battles)
    The Intel Report (Followup topics related to Operations Room)
    dnsl (Trolling in games)

    Channels I’ll binge on once in a while:
    Drachinifel (Naval history)
    agadmator (Chess breakdowns)
    Forgotten Weapons (Firearm history and mechanics)
    Lockpicking Lawyer (Lock history and picking)
    LifesAGlitchTV (StarCraft 2 commentary duo)
    Spookston (War Thunder gameplay)
    The Tank Museum (More tank history)
    Real Engineering (Deep dives on interesting engineering)
    Scott Manley (Space & rocketry related topics)






  • For me, remembering numbers; like ID numbers, part numbers, phone numbers, etc. When I worked as a parts guy at a shop, I would frequently be able to bring up the exact part that fits the customer’s machine assuming I had looked it up once or twice before. If it was something I hadn’t looked at in a while I’d still usually double check fitment, but I probably had a 99% accuracy on part numbers.














  • It’s weird to me that so many people have a hard time figuring out Lemmy; honestly for the average user, the process is:

    1. Join big instance
    2. Browse and search from there

    Searching for communities could use a bit of work to make it easier (for example, I shouldn’t have to have the full community link to search for one from a federated instance if nobody on my instance has subscribed; why aren’t community lists updated automatically?) but the basic experience is pretty easy to get into