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by bilbo0s 2y ago
The only way to be worse, is to actually use them. Then you're starting to see my point.
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
Right. Just when America pulls back, Europe should escalate. Awesome! /s Right now Europe needs time to build. The calculus has radically changed. They need to build out in a fashion that is massive, but also both quick and quiet. Th
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
I don't mean to rain on your parade, but humor me for a second. Let's say that Putin is not the only person in Russian leadership who supports war with Ukraine. What then? I mean we get rid of Putin, and the next guy is worse. I k
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
Washington or NYC gets hit. OK. We'll live. Clearly, you're unfamiliar with the prosecution of a nuclear conflict. I wouldn't count on NYC being the only place hit. In fact, I wouldn't count on any of our port cities a
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
Rubio? Honorable?
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
Alone? Maybe. Vulnerable and weak? Um, anyone who believes this is just not engaging in dispassionate analysis of the situation. We are a lot of not so good things. Weak is not one of them.
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
I'd be shocked if it was over 30% Wow! You think pretty highly of us!
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
I'm sure it already does put you on a list. That's just the way any government works. That information is valuable.
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
This. People abroad don't realize, the average American person is completely powerless. Yes, we may lament the troubles that the current administration is causing for our allies, (or, I guess, former allies) abroad, but there's
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
Model UN ie - Strawman is to argue an easy to refute point they're not making. Whether that point is stronger or weaker is irrelevant. The key is you came prepared to refute the point. Steelman is to argue the point they're maki
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
Steelman is "they meant what they said." ie - no reinterpretation at all. But even taking your reinterpretation at face value, it still couches the issue in terms of the "left" and "right" quasi-religions, no?
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
The government colluded with Facebook and Twitter during the Biden administration There's people that think this only happened during the Biden Administration? Not Obama? Not Trump? Not Bush? Just Biden? The gullibility of Americans
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
This is really good advice. Underrated comment.
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
Theia is really nice, but it has the fatal flaw of no Apple Silicon support. So you can’t really switch a team to it. You have to us VSCode right now. As soon as Apple Silicon support is done however, I’m pretty sure many will switch over.
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
I thought this comment was bluster and looked it up. Sigh. Even Canadians dislike us now. How bad do you have to screw up that the Canadians dislike you? All I can say is that, (maybe?) , this will only last the four years. I'm sure c
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
Not really. At the biggest universities, police pre-date that law. The reason is obvious when you consider how large many universities have become. If you throw 50000 20 year olds into a 3 square mile area, there's likely to be a lot
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
I'd bet any money that while China might not go in overtly, they'd be the main silent-backers of Thai forces that could go in overtly with fewer objections from abroad. (Or, maybe it'd be more accurate to say that, the Thais
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
And? The one thing has nothing to do with the other. Football funds itself. That's why the coach makes so much money. If research funded itself, researchers would make a lot of money.
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
Those 4 aren't really adding much overhead. For instance, I can tell you right now with certainty that at any large university the number of software devs or database admins in the IT department far outpace the number of financial anal
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
Um, I'm not a fan of bloated university employment structures, but 1976 and 2018? Respectfully, you're comparing apples and oranges. On the campuses of today's major universities there are entire support divisions. Housing, F
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
Needs to get out more. Take one trip to some nations in Africa, and you'll quickly discover there are indeed, thousands of peasant cultures undergoing, um, "selection pressures". Usually at the expense of one another. Even ha
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
There are no mind-viruses. There are ideas. Some you like. Some you don't like. The fact that people feel a need to call ideas mind viruses is an indication of how far rational civic discourse has fallen. People have nothing of substan
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
Wow. You guys are both a little full of the partisan kool-aid.
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
Look, I'm familiar with the historical debate about whether this is game theory or art. I come down on the art side. Game theory can deliver success in battle. In some cases, even war. But not in securing a nation. Which is a different
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
Sorry. I should have been more clear. Yes. Risk pools. What I was trying to illustrate is that the fundamental model of sharing risk can work in a place like Georgia, whereas in a place like Florida it doesn't.
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
Well, then it sounds like they got what they wanted. If the numbers are to be believed, they got what they really wanted. Which is why the rest of the nation is happy for them! They have the government they want and deserve. And I'm
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
And that's how democracy works. If you didn't vote? Well, your fault. The beauty of the election is that it means right now in Florida you have exactly the government you want and deserve.
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
Average elevation in Georgia: 600ft Average elevation in Florida: 100ft Georgia coastline: 100 mi non-NOAA Florida coastline: 1350 mi non-NOAA Even when cheating with non-NOAA numbers, Georgia is nowhere near comparable to Florida. Most of
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
True. It's a very unwise position Vance takes. The world would clearly be better run if all governments feared their people, than it would if all people fear their governments. The UK can pull this kind of stuff precisely because they
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
Right. Escalation just when US leadership is pulling away. Stroke of strategic brilliance right there. /s EU should probably walk backward, slowly, saying “good dog”, while feeling around behind them for a stick. Ie - Take this opportu

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