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I don't really care about drama so I am going to take this time to educate you with a long post that seems like it is my opinion on the staff and APD drama but is actually about the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. 

During the final stage of World War II, the United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945, respectively. The United States had dropped the bombs with the consent of the United Kingdom as outlined in the Quebec Agreement. The two bombings killed at least 129,000 people, most of whom were civilians. They remain the only use of nuclear weapons in the history of warfare.

In the final year of the war, the Allies prepared for what was anticipated to be a very costly invasion of the Japanese mainland. This undertaking was preceded by a conventional and firebombing campaign that destroyed 67 Japanese cities. The war in Europe had concluded when Germany signed its instrument of surrender on May 8, 1945. As the Allies turned their full attention to the war in the Pacific War, the Japanese faced the same fate; the Allies called for the unconditional surrender of the Imperial Japanese armed forces in the Potsdam Declaration on July 26, 1945—the alternative being "prompt and utter destruction". The Japanese ignored the ultimatum and the war continued.

By August 1945, the Allies' Manhattan Project had produced two types of atomic bomb, and the 509th Composite Group of the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) was equipped with the specialized Silverplate version of the Boeing B-29 Superfortress that could deliver them from Tinian in the Mariana Islands. Orders for atomic bombs to be used on four Japanese cities were issued on July 25. On August 6, one of its B-29s dropped a Little Boy uranium gun-type bomb on Hiroshima, and U.S. President Harry S. Truman again called for Japan's surrender, warning it to "expect a rain of ruin from the air, the like of which has never been seen on this earth." Three days later, on August 9, a Fat Man plutonium implosion-type bomb was dropped by another B-29 on Nagasaki. The bombs immediately devastated their targets. Over the next two to four months, the acute effects of the atomic bombings killed 90,000–146,000 people in Hiroshima and 39,000–80,000 people in Nagasaki; roughly half of the deaths in each city occurred on the first day. Large numbers of people continued to die from the effects of burns, radiation sickness, and other injuries, compounded by illness and malnutrition, for many months afterward. In both cities, most of the dead were civilians, although Hiroshima had a sizable military garrison.

Japan announced its surrender to the Allies on August 15, six days after the bombing of Nagasaki and the Soviet Union's declaration of war. On September 2, the Japanese government signed the instrument of surrender, effectively ending World War II. The atomic bombings immediate and long-term consequences for military strategy (including the new realm of nuclear warfare), human health, and international relations, as well as their impact on the social and political character of subsequent world history and popular culture, have been extensively studied. The ethical and legal justification for the bombings is still debated to this day.

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24 minutes ago, ScreaM said:

I don't really care about drama

Wow 

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14 minutes ago, draMa said:

Wow 

I care about @draMa <3

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@buckie

[ScreaM 1763]

can an admin get rid of the super long shit. although funny its aids to scroll

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1 hour ago, buckie said:

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Neck.

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INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY AND ITS FUTURE Introduction 1. The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race. They have greatly increased the life-expectancy of those of us who live in “advanced” countries, but they have destabilized society, have made life unfulfilling, have subjected human beings to indignities, have led to widespread psychological suffering (in the Third World to physical suffering as well) and have inflicted severe damage on the natural world. The continued development of technology will worsen the situation. It will certainly subject human beings to greater indignities and inflict greater damage on the natural world, it will probably lead to greater social disruption and psychological suffering, and it may lead to increased physical suffering even in “advanced” countries. 2. The industrial-technological system may survive or it may break down. If it survives, it MAY eventually achieve a low level of physical and psychological suffering, but only after passing through a long and very painful period of adjustment and only at the cost of permanently reducing human beings and many other living organisms to engineered products and mere cogs in the social machine. Furthermore, if the system survives, the consequences will be inevitable: There is no way of reforming or modifying the system so as to prevent it from depriving people of dignity and autonomy. 3. If the system breaks down the consequences will still be very painful. But the bigger the system grows the more disastrous the results of its breakdown will be, so if it is to break down it had best break down sooner rather than later. 4. We therefore advocate a revolution against the industrial system. This revolution may or may not make use of violence; it may be sudden or it may be a relatively gradual process spanning a few decades. We can’t predict any of that. But we do outline in a very general way the measures that those who hate the industrial system should take in order to prepare the way for a revolution against that form of society. This is not to be a POLITICAL revolution. Its object will be to overthrow not governments but the economic and technological basis of the present society. 5. In this article we give attention to only some of the negative developments that have grown out of the industrial-technological system. Other such developments we mention only briefly or ignore altogether. This does not mean that we regard these other developments as unimportant. For practical reasons we have to confine our discussion to areas that have received insufficient public attention or in which we have something new to say. For example, since there are well-developed environmental and wilderness movements, we have written very little about environmental degradation or the destruction of wild nature, even though we consider these to be highly important. THE PSYCHOLOGY OF MODERN LEFTISM 6. Almost everyone will agree that we live in a deeply troubled society. One of the most widespread manifestations of the craziness of our world is leftism, so a discussion of the psychology of leftism can serve as an introduction to the discussion of the problems of modern society in general. 7. But what is leftism? During the first half of the 20th century leftism could have been practically identified with socialism. Today the movement is fragmented and it is not clear who can properly be called a leftist. When we speak of leftists in this article we have in mind mainly socialists, collectivists, “politically correct” types, feminists, gay and disability activists, animal rights activists and the like. But not everyone who is associated with one of these movements is a leftist. What we are trying to get at in discussing leftism is not so much movement or an ideology as a psychological type, or rather a collection of related types. Thus, what we mean by “leftism” will emerge more clearly in the course of our discussion of leftist psychology. (Also, see paragraphs 227-230.) 8. Even so, our conception of leftism will remain a good deal less clear than we would wish, but there doesn’t seem to be any remedy for this. All we are trying to do here is indicate in a rough and approximate way the two psychological tendencies that we believe are the main driving force of modern leftism. We by no means claim to be telling the WHOLE truth about leftist psychology. Also, our discussion is meant to apply to modern leftism only. We leave open the question of the extent to which our discussion could be applied to the leftists of the 19th and early 20th centuries. 9. The two psychological tendencies that underlie modern leftism we call “feelings of inferiority” and “oversocialization.” Feelings of inferiority are characteristic of modern leftism as a whole, while oversocialization is characteristic only of a certain segment of modern leftism; but this segment is highly influential.

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Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, 3rd Duke of Alba

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Fernando Álvarez de Toledo
Governor of Milan
In office 1555–1556
Monarch	Charles I of Spain
Preceded by	Ferdinando Gonzaga
Succeeded by	Cristoforo Madruzzo
Viceroy of Naples
In office 1556–1558
Monarch	Charles I of Spain
Preceded by	Bernardino de Mendoza
Succeeded by	Fadrique Álvarez de Toledo, 4th Duke of Alba
Governor of the Netherlands
In office 1567–1573
Monarch	Philip II of Spain
Preceded by	Margaret of Austria
Succeeded by	Luis de Requesens y Zúñiga
1st Viceroy of Portugal and the Algarves
In office 18 July 1580 – 11 December 1582
Monarch	Philip I of Portugal
Preceded by	New title
Succeeded by	Archduke Alberto of Austria
12th Constable of Portugal
In office 1581–1582
Monarch	Philip II of Spain
Preceded by	John, 6th Duke of Braganza
Succeeded by	Teodósio II, 7th Duke of Braganza
Personal details
Born	(1507-10-29)29 October 1507 Piedrahíta, Ávila, Spain
Died	11 December 1582(1582-12-11) (aged 75) Lisbon, Kingdom of Portugal
Spouse(s)	María Enríquez de Toledo y Guzmán
Children	Fernando de Toledo García Álvarez de Toledo y Enríquez de Guzmán Fadrique Álvarez de Toledo y Enríquez de Guzman Diego Álvarez de Toledo y Enríquez de Guzmán Beatriz Álvarez de Toledo y Enríquez de Guzmán
Profession	Soldier, diplomat, statesman
Military service
Allegiance	Spanish Crown
Rank	Captain General
Battles/wars	Ottoman-Habsburg wars Conquest of Tunis Italian Wars Siege of Perpignan Schmalkaldic War Battle of Mühlberg Siege of Wittenberg Dutch Revolt Battle of Jemmingen Battle of Jodoigne Siege of Mons War of the Portuguese Succession Battle of Alcántara

 

The arrival of the Duke of Alba in Brussels, 1567. Print from 'The Wars of Nassau' by Willem Baudartius, Amsterdam 1616

Fernando Álvarez de Toledo y Pimentel (29 October 1507 – 11 December 1582), known as the Grand Duke of Alba in Spain and the Iron Duke in the Netherlands, was a Spanish noble, general, and diplomat. He was titled the 3rd Duke of Alba de Tormes, 4th Marquis of Coria, 3rd Count of Salvatierra de Tormes, 2nd Count of Piedrahita, 8th Lord of Valdecorneja, Grandee of Spain, and a Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece. His motto in Latin was Deo patrum Nostrorum, which in English means "To the God of our fathers".

He was an adviser of King Charles I of Spain (Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor), and his successor, Philip II of Spain, Mayordomo mayor of both, member of their Councils of State and War, governor of the Duchy of Milan (1555–1556), viceroy of the Kingdom of Naples (1556–1558), governor of the Netherlands (1567–1573) and viceroy and constable of the Kingdom of Portugal (1580–1582). He represented Philip II in negotiating Philip's betrothal to Elisabeth of Valois and Anna of Austria, who were the third and fourth, and last, wives of the king.

By some historians he is considered the best general of his generation^[1] and one of the best generals ever.^[2] Although a tough leader, he was respected by his troops. He touched their sentiments e.g. by addressing them in his speeches as "gentlemen soldiers" (señores soldados), but was also popular among them for daring statements such as:

The kings use men like oranges, first they squeeze the juice and then throw away the peel.^[3]

Alba especially distinguished himself in the conquest of Tunis (1535) during the Ottoman-Habsburg wars when Carlos I defeated Hayreddin Barbarossa and returned the Spanish Monarchy to predominance over the western Mediterranean Sea. He also distinguished himself in the battle of Mühlberg (1547), where the army of Emperor Charles defeated the German Protestant princes.

He is best known for his actions against the revolt of the Netherlands, where he instituted the Council of Troubles, and repeatedly defeated the troops of William of Orange and Louis of Nassau in the battle of Jemmingen (1568) during the first stages of the Eighty Years' War. He is also known for the brutalities during the capture of Mechelen, Zutphen, Naarden and Haarlem. In spite of these military successes, the Dutch revolt was not broken and Alba was recalled to Spain. His last military successes were in the Portuguese succession crisis of 1580, winning the Battle of Alcantara and conquering that kingdom for Philip II. Spain unified all the kingdoms of the Iberian Peninsula and consequently expanded its overseas territories.

 

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58 minutes ago, Grandma Gary said:

I suck at PUBG and often get carried by either @ScreaM or @Peter Long

I hate black people

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10 minutes ago, ScreaM said:

I hate black people

Whoa there Bessie.  I sure hope nobody reports that post cause the consequences would be...unfortunate.

[ScreaM 1763]

3 minutes ago, Grandma Gary said:

Where does this hatred of coloured folks come from?

My father molested me as a boy and that is why I have a severe hatred of black people.

[Grandma Gary 10064]

@ScreaM Much like PUBG this is a battle you will never win ;D

[ScreaM 1763]

8 minutes ago, Grandma Gary said:

@ScreaM Teach me how to be bad at PUBG like you

maybe later