• Soggy@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      See also: monster trucks, demolition derbies, fireworks, contact sports, and so much more. Wasteful and dangerous? Yep. Fun? Also yep.

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        In fairness to contact sports / martial arts, when done properly, they can be significantly less dangerous, teach discipline and respect, instill a sense of realism and proportionality regarding the application of violence, keep you in decent physical shape, provide your life with a routine structure, and provide some real world socializing/social group.

        Many also come with some kind of a philosophy that stresses self defense and essentially a ‘duty to retreat’ mentality: violence is always the last resort.

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          Many also come with some kind of a philosophy that stresses self defense and essentially a ‘duty to retreat’ mentality: violence is always the last resort.

          Can confirm, every sensei I’ve had pushed this mentality constantly. The people who joined to “learn how to beat people up” never lasted very long when the first thing we’d teach is “how to run away”

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        They’re fun as fuck.

        Some of the best pics I have are from an air show! f35

        F-22 for life lol, 2000s era Lockheed tincan doesn’t even look good after they threw all my tax money at it.

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          Fuck off. Girls also like to go fast and literally flying. Seeing the pinnacle of flight engineering and human ability is enjoyable in the same ways as a car, tech, robotics, boats, trains, etc… Show or race. Weird thread of people wanting to be mad.

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            It’s not weird that people who have any ethics and a bit of context for what these things are used from can’t just separate the “cool technology” from their purpose and find them extremely distasteful.

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      there are plenty of things which are fun to watch which didn’t involve spending billions of tax dollars on killing machines

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        Fucking hate it when I go to the air show and the plane sucks up my internal American flag spirit straight out of my mouth

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        Nothing outs a shit human faster than their use of memes that rely on negative stereotypes of the mentally challenged in an effort to insult their opponent. If you can’t craft an insult that doesn’t use a vulnerable section of humanity as the root, fuck off.

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        If they were free and couldn’t kill anyone etc.

        Relatively intriguing 6-foot-tall bipeds are able to travel through the air in such a manner

        reminded of comic

        comic: “I WISH THAT I COULD GO BACK IN TIME SO I COULD BLOW EVERYBODY'S MINDS WITH MY INCREDIBLE KNOWLEDGE OF THE FUTURE! SO HOW DO YOU MAKE ONE OF THESE "CELL-PHONES"? I DON'T KNOW”

        Obviously not advocating for anything

        Just “how’d humans engineer that! I couldn’t build a good bike!”

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          How’s the old saying go? Something along the lines of “the average person thinks they would be a genius if they were transported back to the Stone Age… But the average person wouldn’t even be able to build a toaster.”