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by CMay 9mo ago
If you're talking about the Trump administration, they're surrounded by lawyers and constantly battling things up to supreme court decisions, which is not what lawless looks like. ICE is also enforcing existing laws that simply h
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by CMay 9mo ago
It's not illegal to track law enforcement, but if any of their still visible chats show intent it will hurt them. They'll also want to find out how many people in the group chat are outside of the US, if any money was being excha
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by CMay 9mo ago
Our country is already split into a bunch of pieces, so that's easy. In the US, many people do move when they don't like the local policies and there are many different states to choose from that handle issues differently.
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by CMay 9mo ago
The CIA is definitely operating in Iran. Nobody reasonable will deny that. Mossad is too, guaranteed. How inflated their numbers are, I don't know, but even just the confirmed numbers of dead both officially and unofficially are too
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by CMay 9mo ago
I don't trust any language that fundamentally becomes reliant on package managers. Once package managers become normalized and pervasively used, people become less thoughtful and investigative into what libraries they use. Instead of
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by CMay 9mo ago
Yes. It isn't without failings, but it's also important for morality to be contextualized. If the US truly does something horrifically wrong, we're free to report on it in our own country. Even with the Vietnam war, we repo
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by CMay 9mo ago
Absolutely, because it is. Sometimes it's about X, because X is also related to freedom. Let's set X = oil. Oil is a critical resource that is huge for transportation. If you are the one that controls it and people need it from
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by CMay 9mo ago
It's multiple things. Yes, the automotive manufacturers matter not just for business sense, but because manufacturing base is important to be able to leverage in case of a war. Manufacturing lines played key roles in WW2. In additio
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by CMay 9mo ago
Well, South Korea and Japan being involved would just be one factor that makes justification even easier. The real reason would be national and global security. It's in the interest of preservation of freedom. You don't wait un
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by CMay 9mo ago
Because Canada has been in trade talks with China and may potentially lower its tariffs on China which gives them a back door into the US. There are some specifics and it's all conditional. It depends on the kinds of deals it settles
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by CMay 9mo ago
1. I generally agree that China has a better chance with hybrid tactics that escalate in ways that meter western response, but Taiwan can force escalation too once it reaches a threshold and it would be within its right to. 2. If Russia, No
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by CMay 9mo ago
The battle against communism has been going on for a long time and it was an important factor in most of the major wars of the 1900s when it openly stated it needed to establish global dominance. In the grand scheme of things, this is more
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by CMay 9mo ago
I think you're conflating different contexts and scenarios. People aren't used to war being brought to the US itself. Look at Pearl Harbor and 9/11, both rallying the country pretty well. Attacking the US mainland is a los
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by CMay 9mo ago
The more complex the process becomes, the harder it is to have equivalent competition so you're bound to have issues where a single company's investment decisions have widespread impacts. My perspective on the China risk differs s
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by CMay 9mo ago
They have the 2018 movie free to watch on Fandango At Home, which doesn't even require you to login to watch it: https://athome.fandango.com/content/browse/details/Balloon/1...
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by CMay 9mo ago
From the reports I'd read and the interviews I'd seen, it's not that Venezuela let people go so much as it couldn't stop them. Many people who fled the country state they had to hide their property and children to preve
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by CMay 11mo ago
I never really looked into it, but it looks like the vast majority of Vietnamese were born after the war so US culture and trade are way more important contributors to opinion. Vietnamese are some of the most pro-US people in the world.
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by CMay 11mo ago
We're not getting rid of our allies, but it's long past time that they invested more in the common defense and it's important that they do, because it could be a valuable contribution to deterring war. Focus less on the soun
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by CMay 11mo ago
Why are you trying to rephrase something I said to mean something it doesn't? That's not what I said. We're not destroying our relationships and we're not ditching our allies. I think you're too caught up in the
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by CMay 11mo ago
I'd also add that the Vietnamese LOVE the US.
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by CMay 11mo ago
The US is the second largest manufacturing power, the largest economic power and the largest military power, but those things aren't even what makes it a scary threat. There are things that make up the US that vastly increase its poten
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by CMay 11mo ago
The technology is amazing, but Microsoft has no imagination in the way they try to make use of it. It's sad. It also legitimately hurts society that they are further blurring the line between what is an offline and online experience
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by CMay 11mo ago
I was sorting out the right way to handle a medical thing and Gemini 2.5 Pro was part of the way there, but it lacked some necessary information. Got the Gemini 3.0 release notification a few hours after I was looking into that, so I tried
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by CMay 11mo ago
The reason I specify the CCP specifically rather than always stating China, is because the government is not "of", "by" and "for" the people. There are many Chinese people and only a small fraction of them are
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by CMay 11mo ago
It's true that Russia and China share a border, but the infrastructure to move oil across it at large scale barely exists and I got the impression the geology is very unfavorable for it. It's probably easier to ship it, but futur
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by CMay 11mo ago
The dollar value of the assembly lines isn't as important as the scale and architecture of the information that has to move. I could see scenarios where there is a high level of variability on the line and it requires a very large mach
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by CMay 11mo ago
That's fair, I just don't see 5G or 6G being make-or-break for any kinds of manufacturing. Do any examples exist where this is the case?
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by CMay 11mo ago
China bet on EVs because of national security. China has less reliable access to oil than many other countries and the US can choke off delivery of oil to China through bottlenecks if it comes to war. Investing in solar, wind and nuclear
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by CMay 11mo ago
You don't need a crazy fast connection for most of this automation stuff, because it has to be able to operate offline successfully to start with. Any dark factory should be running on its own wireless network anyway, not some cellula
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by CMay 1y ago
I can sympathize a little with Microsoft here. MS got totally angry and fed up with what was happening. I'm not sure how many people really understand how bad ransomware was getting. Microsoft just finally said enough is enough and

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