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901.
by anon291 2y ago
Many people used to sign up for military service since their ancestors fought on American soil for American interests, and were actually raised under the presumption that this is the main purpose of the American army (or protecting America
902.
by anon291 2y ago
Because there will always be engagements. There will always be some random rebel group attacking American ships in the middle east (we've been at war with various pirates in Somalia since the beginning of this country, and even before
903.
by anon291 2y ago
Barbary Wars were due to attacks on American ships.
904.
by anon291 2y ago
We're talking about drafts, which would certainly occur if America and China went to war. Both countries would start attacking the mainland. Are you willing sacrifice your son's life for that?
905.
by anon291 2y ago
If that realistically happened, America would likely seize ASML assets in the United States and continue manufacture. I'm not entirely sure of the supply chain, but I'm fairly certain that ASML has significant operations and manuf
906.
by anon291 2y ago
Is that why Ukrainian men are being dragged kicking and screaming off the streets?
907.
by anon291 2y ago
You are confusing bemusement for being threatened.
908.
by anon291 2y ago
In the same league as the UK and Germany. This is why I don't support unfettered American alignment with these countries. There is no major country as liberal as the United States.
909.
by anon291 2y ago
Everyone's going to get what they want.
910.
by anon291 2y ago
In these 'democracies' you can be jailed for online comments lol.
911.
by anon291 2y ago
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912.
by anon291 2y ago
The vast majority of Americans are skeptical of our military-industrial complex
913.
by anon291 2y ago
No not at all. The vast majority of Americans are uninterested in being world policemen when it means it's mainly American boys (and girls, but mostly boys, let's be real) dying in foreign wars. The Chinese are not stupid enough t
914.
by anon291 2y ago
Exactly... so what's the purpose of continuing the fight and killing Russian and Ukrainian men for no reason? This forum used to be a strong supporter of men's rights, but apparently these disappear once we dehumanize them via int
915.
by anon291 2y ago
We don't have any leverage against Russia. America has no appetite to fight them directly. If Ukraine were more effective at hurting Russia where it counts, then we might have leverage but the last few years have shown that they are no
916.
by anon291 2y ago
> That is why the focus now is on security guarantees, which the U.S. is refusing so far. This seems obvious to me, but is apparently not obvious to many here.... America (no country really) can guarantee Ukrainian security without riski
917.
by anon291 2y ago
Oh is China going to guarantee Ukraine's security now? At the end of the day, Zelensky had the most obvious proposition in the world -- allow American companies access to Ukrainian minerals. He kept asking for a security guarantee as i
918.
by anon291 2y ago
It is not bullying to say that American monetary support means basically doing what the United States want you to do. This is basic human social interaction.
919.
by anon291 2y ago
That is one way of sampling tokens. It is not the only way. Logits do not map neatly to belief, although it is convenient to behave as if they do
920.
by anon291 2y ago
Logits are not probabilities... at least not in the way you understand probability. Probabilities mathematically are anything that broadly behaves like a probability, whereas colloquially probabilities represent the likelihood or the prepon
921.
by anon291 2y ago
> And presuming we elected folks to set tax rates and make decisions to spend that money helping people, I don't see anything ignoble about choosing to help manage that process. I never said it was ignoble. I just said it wasn'
922.
by anon291 2y ago
But USAID is not a charity. That's the point. A charity and non-profit take money voluntarily donated to it. If USAID were a government administered charitable organization, I may have a different take, but it is not in any way a
923.
by anon291 2y ago
Government workers get several benefits that most American private sector employees do not enjoy, but let's ignore that. The simple truth is that the Washington DC area is very well compensated. > "Purpose" is also a less
924.
by anon291 2y ago
I literally identified several kinds of noble people in my comment: those who give away money they earn in productive occupations and those who give freely of their time expecting no financial reward for doing so. Many many people do this.
925.
by anon291 2y ago
> I was sad and frustrated for the thousands of people who have been stripped of a career dedicated to serving others Serving others can mean either working in one occupation to produce money that one then gives away for charitable use o
926.
by anon291 2y ago
Well agency is the feeling I have of being able to impact the world. I cannot know if you have it but I have extrapolated that based on my impression of you. For all I know, I'm the only one to exist.
927.
by anon291 2y ago
Yes, the entirety of the math behind it which says that various quantities are unknowable except as a distribution of probabilities. Various experiments have shown these formulas to be 'real', as in, the alternative deterministic
928.
by anon291 2y ago
One's observations of one's own agency is really the only thing one can be assured of. And this is where these arguments that seek to reduce intelligence to purely mechanistic processes breaks down. For sure, everything the articl
929.
by anon291 2y ago
Indonesia regularly passes laws barring religious minorities from practicing. For example: https://www.msn.com/en-us/society-culture-and-history/social... (there are dozens of such stories) China of course highly
930.
by anon291 2y ago
All of afro-Eurasia seems to be falling into religious intolerance and extremism, except for a few outposts.

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