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[–] 95 points 2 months ago (7 children)

“Get me dudes like those guys that lost THE war”

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  • [–] 22 points 2 months ago

    Western media did a lot of nazi propaganda, from portraying them as more competent, disciplined, and technologically advanced than the allies to the "clean wehrmacht" to asiatic hordes myths.

    Its not shocking that the dipshit-in-chief would buy into it.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Would you prefer French generals? And didn't the British go to war over Polish independence, hard to say they won really. My choice would be that Russian hero, General Winter.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    I'm going to bitch about the winter beating back the German.

    The German had to stop their offensive in part because of winter, as the logistic network was too long and overcapacity to effectively bring winter gear up to the front.

    But that's only part of it, the issue. The biggest issue is, the German army was just out of steam by December 1941. They had been fighting nearly non stop since March, 1st in Yugoslavia and Greece and then in the USSR with very little time to recover. The fighting in the USSR had been very costly in men, and the drive itself had left the tanks and trucks running ragged. The Germans needed to use the winter to bring up fresh troops, equipment and munition for large scale offensive in spring 1942.

    Also there is probably something to be say about diminishing the achievement of Soviet Generals like Konev and Zhukov but I am too sleepy to finish my comment.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    I respect your argument. I'd replace "out of steam" with "out of oil" and add an honorable mention for Tukhachevsky's theory contributions, but totally good point.

    To be fair, only Генерал Мороз was also a veteran of the Napoleonic wars too.

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  • [–] 71 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

    What contrast? The topic is bloated, brainless orange things.

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  • [–] 34 points 2 months ago (16 children)

    Pumpkins can vary significantly in size, but giant pumpkins typically weigh from 68 kilograms (150 lb) to over 910 kilograms (2,010 lb), with some record-breaking specimens reaching weights of over 1,278.8 kg (2,819.3 lb).

    What a liar!

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  • [–] 26 points 2 months ago (9 children)

    But is that a real biological limit, or can we create an even more nightmarish monstrosity??

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  • [–] 19 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    I wonder what growing the pumpkin in a space station would do, the fruit wouldn't have to be able to support its own weight at that point

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  • [–] 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    With these massive pumpkins (I live in farm country and we need hobbies too) the single plant takes up pretty much the whole field, and more problematically, drinks somewhere around 200 gallons of water a day once they get big. So it’s more a logistics problem really.

    If I could ever justify throwing a couple grand (I can’t and won’t) I’d love to try growing one hydroponically with a swimming pool as a reservoir.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Yeah so we can do fun things to weed with indoor growing by controlling the temperature, the times and color the light is on, ect ect ect. What if we optimized it that way, and then pumped it full of Plant Growth Hormone?

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago* (5 children)

    How big are they in volume?

    A ton of water is just one cubic meter, so I suppose it's still not big enough to make a jack-o'lantern house.

    (Which just so happens to be my only interest in large pumpkins)

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    Iirc it's also alot of empty space inside.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    So maybe it's possible to grow a pumpkin large enough for a horse carriage and nobody has done it yet?

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  • [–] 13 points 2 months ago (4 children)
  • [–] 13 points 2 months ago

    Hitler's generals were so afraid of him that they didn't even tell him about the D-Day landings for several hours because they didn't want to wake him up.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Hmm... Pumpkins are orange and have no intelligence...

    Trump is also orange and has no intelligence...

    Is Trump just a big pumpkin? 🤔

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  • [–] 12 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Well, he does like to pump kin.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    He's not wrong. I think we'd all love to see trump put a round or two into his own head, trapped like a rat in a bunker.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago

    Apparently pumpkins can get big enough to become president.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago

    "I need the kind of genitals Hitler had" is funnier and therefore I choose to believe my misread version is reality, quote a rat demon scrotum.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    That got me thinking, could pumpkins get even bigger in low G? If for instance there were sheltered greenhouse on the moon once we have colonies there.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago

    So social media has been feeding me shorts of a woman who grows giant vegetables. To compete they can't break and there are a bunch of spots where if they grow too fast they get thin and split under their own weight.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    Incompetent and methed up?

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    I wish we had those guys too, they turned on Hitler

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    Love that it's in the "Health" category.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    I know. But I ain't tellin'...

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