It’s Odd How Few People Actually Know About Operation Downfall. Yeah, The Nukes Weren’t A Great Thing,

It’s odd how few people actually know about Operation Downfall. Yeah, the nukes weren’t a great thing, but the alternative was far, far worse. It happened 70 years ago and it was war. People die in war, it’s kind of the point. Either 250,000 people die or several million people die. Bad things happened, but sometimes the past plays out better for the future. It happened, you can’t change it, get over it.

Here we are, 70 years after the nuclear obliteration of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and I’m wondering if we’ve come even one step closer to a moral reckoning with our status as the world’s only country to use atomic weapons to slaughter human beings. Will an American president ever offer a formal apology? Will our country ever regret the dropping of “Little Boy” and “Fat Man,” those two bombs that burned hotter than the sun? Will it absorb the way they instantly vaporized thousands of victims, incinerated tens of thousands more, and created unimaginably powerful shockwaves and firestorms that ravaged everything for miles beyond ground zero? Will it finally come to grips with the “black rain” that spread radiation and killed even more people — slowly and painfully — leading in the end to a death toll for the two cities conservatively estimated at more than 250,000?

Yet Americans still view the bombings as an act of mercy

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Dear artists...

No, I’m not going to link back to your page. I edited out your ugly signature too. I paid for the art. It is mine.

Don’t worry, this does not mean I take credit for drawing it. When people ask if I drew it, I say “Nope.” When people ask who did, I say, “Sorry, I don’t remember.”

Just because I bought your art does not mean our profiles have to be linked forever. It’s the same if I buy an apple from the grocer. I don’t have to keep the sticker on it or tell people where it came from. I’m not a walking advertisement for your shop.

If you want credit so badly, then I should get a cut of your future profits for my part in the advertising.

I know I’m probably going to get the wrath of whiny, entitled artists for this, but I don’t care. I won’t be making a shrine around their art dedicated to them. I paid for a service, and now we should go our our separate ways!

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squird5

11 years ago

Cut Out The Holster As I Couldn't Think Of Any Way For It To Hold A Wide Array Of Weapons And Still Be

Cut out the holster as I couldn't think of any way for it to hold a wide array of weapons and still be quick and easy to use. Probably gonna go with magnets instead.

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squird5

9 years ago

I don’t even know. I tried dipping it in the eggwash and nothing really stuck, and I did it the second time like it said and tried spooning some over the top and everything was ruined forever. At least it tastes good. And looks like it’s covered in dog food.