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Cake day: February 16th, 2024
  • Dasus@lemmy.worldtoWorld News@quokk.au•Facing threats of war, Denmark turns to a new weapon: women
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    4 days ago

    I would imagine them being slower and sneakier, with lighter armored but more specialized soldiers.

    Again, you’re really thinking of frontline soldiers, which is kind of a small part of the jobs in the military. And you’re pretty much thinking of the army(and/or marines).

    I’d say that women are people, like men, and like men, they have more individual strengths and weaknesses than they do as a group. Military is just built around the physicality of men, but most of the taller girls kept up pretty well, just like it was easier for the taller guys to keep up with things.

    And the reason the girls usually didn’t get placed in the frontline groups was that those are the shortest and easiest to train, and every one of those women volunteered, so they’re didn’t want to just take the shortest and simplest way out (as the training and thus service time for basic infantry was months shorter).

    Also I know of at least one girl who was an infantry squad leader (leader of a jaeger squad jääkärialikersantti) and went off to become an infantry officer after her service. She tried getting in the first time, but as her tests weren’t in the top, she wasn’t accepted, but everyone can go through the training after their service with the next group of arrivals if they so choose and fulfill certain requirements. So she should be an officer now. Last saw her some 16 years ago when she went off to the after-service officer course. So I’d reckon she might be a lieutenant or even an overlieutenant or maybe even a captain if she’s been actively going to reserve drills. Probably not, but at least a vänrikki (one under lieutenant, ~ensign, nato rank OF-1)

    But like my point is that they’re really not that different.

    One thing I did kinda dislike though is that the physical requirements were less for women than men. Because I think they should be set by objective needs and not just be scoring the physically best of each sex.

  • Dasus@lemmy.worldtoWorld News@quokk.au•Facing threats of war, Denmark turns to a new weapon: women
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    5 days ago

    I’m Finnish and did do my service, and we had quite a few women.

    Most women get placed as drivers or leaders, but “enlisted” ranks (sergeant etc) instead of officers. This isn’t to do with sexism, well mostly not, it’s just that the officer training really is also physically very demanding and goes by scores from all sorts of different tests (mostly physical) so usually they don’t end up there.

    However I do have a slight issue with your plain statement of “a woman can aim and pull the trigger just as easily as a man” because you’re implying a frontline soldier, and that shit is physically demanding. Google “syöksyen eteenpäin” or “tetsaus”. Basically a fronline soldier is equipped with some 10-15kg of gear and a rifle and you have to be able to crawl then jump forward, then crawl then jump forward, and that’s your method of progressing through the territory under enemy fire. And if your fighting partner (fighting partners arr the smallest unit, below a squad) or squadmate of 100kg gets shot, you are supposed to be able to evacuate them.

    And while I could list a lot that the women did better then men or at least as well (most), evacuating men isn’t one of the things they’re really as good as. Ofc there are small men as well, but there’s no denying the difference in muscle strength, and the scrawniest guys usually wouldn’t necessarily be in the frontlines if there was a better place to put them.

    Which is why most of the women I served with ended up as things which aren’t frontline soldiers. Drivers and leaders of supply and medical squads. Ofc there might be fighting but it’s less likely.

    Which I think is pretty good, as, well, I’m not gonna argue women are better at organisational stuff (I think they might be but positive sexism is still sexism), but they’re definitely not worse than men. So makes sense to use them where their strengths shine and weaknesses don’t show.

    In Finland every male musters the year they turn 18 and roughly 75% end up going through military service all the way.

    But yeah in like >90% of stuff definitely equal. But no they weren’t better shots despite the myth. Although my sample size was only a dozen or two but none of them were especially crack shots. They weren’t bad but they weren’t anything special either

  • Dasus@lemmy.worldtoStar Wars Memes@lemmy.world•Crossover hours?English
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    5 days ago

    Most carnivorous plants don’t actually need to eat bugs to survive

    Source pls.

    Most of those plants live in extremely nutritionally poor ground, so when you grow them at home and they have nutrition, they wouldn’t require eating I guess.

    But evolution did not make flycatcher plants just for the lulz.

  • Dasus@lemmy.worldtoFediverse memes@feddit.uk•Look on the bright sideEnglish
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    6 days ago

    First of all, calling Lemmy or PieFed a “forum” is a stretch of the term, just like

    By which weird definition? They are literally open forums.

    Dictionary

    Definitions from Oxford Languages

    forum /ˈfɔːrəm/

    noun

    1.
a meeting or medium where ideas and views on a particular issue can be exchanged.
"we hope these pages act as a forum for debate"
	
	
>    a website or web page where users can post comments about a particular issue or topic and reply to other users' postings.

    traditional forums have been used for porn basically as long as they have existed.

    Yeah and it has always weirded me out. It’s like those people who watch porn with their friends. Like supposedly heterosexual adult men spending their free time watching porn together? Idk man, you do you but it’s not my cup of tea. No judgement. I just don’t get it.

    Yeah it’s probably good for sharing images, but… do you have a hard time finding then yourself? The internet really isn’t short for porn. Loads of sites are literally full of UHD quality videos of whatever you happen to be into.

    And it’s not like it’s actually the creator posting stuff. >95% of the time at least it’s someone horny posting someone else’s picture and going “what do you like my so-and-so”.

    And you really can’t argue that Lemmy is a good platform for sharing videos. It’s just not. It’s good for sharing links to videos, sure, but not videos in and of themselves.

    mmy for porn have in common with people who wear those kinds of shirts

    I don’t think I need to define vague associations my brain made when writing a reply on Lemmy. Hard to put a finger on it, but I’m sure you get the gist of what I meant.

  • Dasus@lemmy.worldtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Cup cake
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    9 days ago

    I don’t think I’ve ever used or even heard the phrase… unfortunately…?

    But “the pussy of a dick” would be something like “vitun kyrpä”, which is something I may have used once or twice or thrice or…

    But it’s more like saying “you fucking dick”. “Vittu” is our “fuck” more or less, contextually, although if you take it literally it means a certain type of female reproductive organ, yeah. But then again if you take “fuck” literally it’s having sex.