Ümit Alpuğan

@organicrabbit705895

i choked badly twice as a kid, almost drowned twice (once at about 10, the other at 15), and one time i was practicing pole dancing and the entire pole came dow

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Ümit Alpuğan

@organicrabbit705895 · Jan 12, 2026

CMV: economy size / GDP and true military capabilities are very loosely related things

I often see people comparing Europe and Russia with the tone like "well, Russia's economy is like 15x smaller, it's ridiculous we are getting bullied by them". Or "they can't even take Ukraine, of course it's ridiculous to think they have any chance in Europe".
This is IMO a dangerously naive view. High GDP means you likely have a lot of high tech, a developed service economy, probably some very advanced military tech. But it absolutely doesn't guarantee that:
- you're spending large % of GDP on army to begin with
- you have a large and actually trained army that that combat experience in any large war, or large number of people in the population with some sort of military training you can quickly draft
- you have huge stockpile of ammo, artillery shells, oil/fuel to maintain some 100k people army for a year
- you have leaders willing to go to war
- you are willing to enact marshal law and boost defense spending by 3x or 5x or 10x.
- your population will have enough volunteers to go fight, or you could efficiently forcibly draft enough people without causing massive social unrest
- you are willing to lose million people dead and wounded without colossal shock for the country

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@organicrabbit705895 · Jan 11, 2026

Norbert Baran

@angryostrich573990 · Jan 10, 2026 8:25 pm

Feeling lost in life

I'm returning to university after a year's break due to mental health issues. It should be a positive thing, but I no longer have any interest or motivation to study academically. When I started my studies several years ago, I actually enjoyed it, but now it's like all that has disappeared. Nothing about university feels interesting anymore. I feel completely lost. I've tried to apply to other universities in the past, but I wasn't successful and also didn't know what I was looking for. I don't know what's wrong, should I just force myself through university or find something else to do? Finding a simple job doesn't actually sound so bad at the moment, but everyone in my family says that I should invest in my education and get a degree. But it's probably true as others say, that a job without higher education doesn't provide high income. Not sure why I'm writing this, maybe to get some new perspectives. Thank you for reading.

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@organicrabbit705895 · Jan 10, 2026

Kassem Farhat

@kassem · Jan 10, 2026 9:00 am

Today is snowing, great weather, great day!! For another day to win

~Kassem Farhat
Member of GLOBAL VIRTUAL TRUST

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@organicrabbit705895 · Jan 10, 2026

Kassem Farhat

@kassem · Jan 10, 2026 10:00 am

Daily office in Global Virtual trust gets hard. Stupid administration there.

~Kassem Farhat
Member of GLOBAL VIRTUAL TRUST

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Ümit Alpuğan

@organicrabbit705895 · Jan 10, 2026

I can't stand Streamers at all

I really dislike streamers 'cause it feels like they building a cult of their personality with video games? I play plastation and computer too, and i get it if you cant play a game for some reason you go watch a gameplay, but this streaming shits and their viewers are going to far i guess. People talking like they know streamers personally, i really cant stand this para-social relationship that is going on with streamers and their viewers. And some even get a fuck ton money from it, like i really don't get it.
Thank you for coming to my ted talk..

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