Tl;dr:

Bathtubs started small due to size constraints of rooms, but got smaller because it’s cheaper to manufacture and handle smaller tubs.

#savedyouaclick

Yes, as the blurb says in the fourth word or so.

Edit: did the math and counted up to the fourth word

I’m definitely over 10 years old

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Excellent suggestion actually, a solution much newer than the retirement of the Testudo.

In that category, also bombing from an aircraft, heavy munitions, armor piercing rounds, chemical, nuclear and biological warfare, pit traps, land mines, incendiary rounds, rod of god, sonic weapons, disorienting weapons, etc.

I believe a decent guerilla warfare tactic would be explosives/area of effect/molotovs/thermite by drone.

I believe the answer was high maneuverability to circumvent them (the formation is slow to move in) and/or explosives/area of effect.

Get a grenade, molotov or tear gas canister in that formation and they’ll not have a good time.

Good thing history also tells us how these formations were defeated and fell out of fashion

I apologise if there’s been perceived hostility towards you. I aimed for being hostile of the rhetoric and framework of what has been active manipulation and corporate propaganda for almost a century, and probably longer in non-corporations.

The medium doesn’t lend itself well to nuances, but I did not intend to aim any hostility to you as a person, only the rhetoric, and I’m very sorry if the delineation wasn’t sufficiently communicated.

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That… is not at all what I’m saying, nor implying.

I’m actually agreeing with you that the managerial system should not have more power and/or money, but if that class wants more labor from you it is only fair they cede some power and money.

I’m saying that not compensating someone for more complex labor, to benefit an owner, is never worker friendly.

You can compensate in other ways than money and benefits, and you can remove the exploitative/segregating systems by paying everyone enough and not extracting value (as owner profits do), but both require collective action.

And other things as well, like vision, plan and funding. But without collective action, the only incentive is for the owning class to squeeze you tighter and manipulate you to blame the worker class.

It might be hard for the supervisor, but only because they are also part of an exploitative system not compensating labor fairly.

Pay ranges determined by title isn’t fact, it’s decided by the company. Having promotions given once per year as well, as is the decision to raise salaries at a different time.

Just as they can make sure to pay their bills on time every month, they can make sure to promote and pay their workers on time every time.

Yes, the supervisor is working from inside the system, but that means you’re in this together and should rise together against the system. You both need to join a union.

You need to join a union.

What your spouting is corporate propaganda, designed to make you value your labor less. As is the “not making more than the others”-lie which oppressors have used to control their populations for ages.

But there are different perspectives to the situation, so for academical purposes, let’s explore a few:

Labour market model; If you’re doing work that requires skills, knowledge and/or combinations thereof that are harder to acquire, your rarity and thus value increases - you should be paid more in cash and/or benefits.

This includes institutional knowledge, how things are done at the specific workplace, including who to talk with and how.

Economics/value capture; If you’re doing work that brings the employer more profits, such as organising, costing, budgeting or taking over tasks to let the employer scale up - you should be paid a part of those increased profits.

The case for cooperatives; If you truly would be equal, and comfortable, in a workplace there’s much to be said that wage differences disturb that harmony, and you could see it as playing different parts in a commune.

This does however assume that you are all equally invested in the goal, it is profitable enough to compensate all of you fairly and equally, and enough that you are not wanting, or at least equally lacking. This is the case for situations like homesteads, communist society, and anarchist societies like Star Trek or The Culture.

Hmm…

From my perspective, the only reasonable way to get a promotion without increased pay is if you’re working less (which 4-day week studies show isn’t connected to weekly hours), and getting benefits to compensate.

To be fair, the typical American does work in a major city in an office job, as that’s where the jobs are.

By some estimates there’s only about 20 million US blue collar jobs in total.

Good to ask for sources during peak election interference season!

And also, the bear isn’t out to cause trouble, not worth the hassle to fight anything when you’re out exploring.

Cats don’t fight to take anyone down, they mostly fight to scare eachother off, as they are so fragile as beings, both in attack and defence

Might be that they just transfer that to anything they want to get rid of.

Had my elderly, whole life indoors cat stare down a British Mastiff (130 kg dog, bred for guard duty), and consequently train it what surfaces she was allowed on and not.

There’s a lot of propaganda coming all directions, as parties are interested in taking control of the narrative.

There are still a lot of candidate explanations, but tensions in Russia are high enough that the truth might not matter.

Putin has done similar things against Russia, there’s currently an armed insurgency going in Russia with independent groups acting, Russian civil discontent after the fake elections and increasing tolls of war is high and fresh.

Ukraine hasn’t done anything like this previously and has gone to great lengths to minimise civilian casualties, but have also had some rogue plans/actors.

It could be Israel trying to keep eyes off of their conflict, they’ve shown to care little for the lives of non-citizens.

It could be a big brain play by a western state trying to provoke NATO involvement, or clumsily fan unrest.

It could also be unconnected to the war with IS/China/post-soviet states stirring trouble for their own gains.

We don’t know yet, but Russia wants to pin it on Ukraine no matter who did it. Ukraine needs it not to be state affiliated, and so must deny.

Wow, quality post here, with tons of tips, care, love and tough love.

Thank you thebardingreen, you are a credit to all of Lemmy.

Isn’t this basically the plot of young earth Christianity?

War isn’t won by forces alone, you also need the economy, morale and political wherewithal to endure and survive the destruction.

Neither EU country could stomach a prolonged war, possibly only the Baltics and Finland are at all prepared for a couple years of war, and won’t be able to supply their troops for that long without US support.

Case in point, Europe is giving about half of the total aid for Ukraine, but almost none of the armaments even though it would be far more preferable for relations, training, logistics, and defence. Part of it is that they don’t keep stockpiles, part is that they don’t have the industry to replace ammunition, neither of which bodes well for a prolonged conflict.