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by ericmay 1mo ago
Spot-on and thanks for sharing that video too. Aircraft carriers aren't really designed to be replenished by large aircraft which would instead be used to replenish sites like Guam with large enough runways and, frankly, the need if so
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by ericmay 1mo ago
It's not really the same thing. I really do not at all understand why folks see any sort of military intervention that isn't over in 5 minutes as "the next Vietnam". Venezuela was going to be the next Vietnam too. It&#x2
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by ericmay 1mo ago
For this to be true it would also mean that assumptions about capabilities in a negative light are also wrong. If one were to say the US is extremely weak, that would be an assumption about a capability that is now by your decree also just
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by ericmay 1mo ago
Sure but that won't happen in Guam or Hawaii. Guam would be evacuated first. Also these same things apply to any other major power (perhaps more so) who would also see their resources stretched then and their bases deprived of food to
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by ericmay 1mo ago
Generally agree with your assessment, but in the case of Guam or other more remote installations if there were catastrophic issues we'd just airlift food in. Costly but certainly manageable. Hawaii I'm not sure why that would be a
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by ericmay 1mo ago
It’s just a different version of buy local. Many countries including the US, perhaps Canada as the article is about, EU member states, and more will continue to erect trade barriers and focus on internal production protection. (Trump is alm
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by ericmay 2mo ago
You might be right. I like how NYC is set up with just tap to pay with your wallet app without needing to unlock or anything.
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by ericmay 2mo ago
I think this is a completely crazy, over-sensationalized view and all you are doing is whipping yourself up into a fantasy about how much most people care about this stuff. Who cares what Pew Research "researched"? > I mean, pe
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by ericmay 2mo ago
> Don't take the comparison with Iran too literally; it was a gibe about yet another in an endless line of Trump deals (political, business, personal) that didn't stick. Sure but you used the comparison so I did want to make su
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by ericmay 2mo ago
> I don't know the status of all the other various frameworks and intents and executive orders with other countries Then why did you assert claims without knowledge about the underlying facts? Delete Twitter, get off social media,
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by ericmay 2mo ago
The only annoying thing is, well at least in 2023 or so, was that you had to actually load the card with funds even if you had a payment method attached on the iPhone wallet. That got me once as I was tapping like normal throughout my time
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by ericmay 2mo ago
Instead of doubling down you should just admit that you should have backtracked from the usage of the term desperate here. It's not a big deal but you're making it into one to the extent any Internet comment can be. It's a
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by ericmay 2mo ago
> Are there any actual formal trade agreements, ratified by Congress (like CUSMA)? > In the case of Canada, there was the original free trade agreement (Reagan), NAFTA (Bush I/Clinton), and even CUSMA (Trump I). All approved by C
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by ericmay 2mo ago
Idk, my ex (the EU) keeps coming around asking me for stuff, bothering me, then getting mad when I decide what kind of trade policy I want to have as is my right to decide. But either way, the relationship is irreparable, it's all over
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by ericmay 2mo ago
Ok so I'm right, these are former relationships, can't be trusted, we've moved on, etc. ?
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by ericmay 2mo ago
How have we not moved on? I don't understand. You and online Europeans have said we're all these really bad things, no hope in repairing the damage, &c. so we have to be moved on now that we're no longer together. Maybe E
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by ericmay 2mo ago
> Most of them seem to be hand-wavy executive actions, full of caveats and outs, sitting upon the unstable legal foundation of illegal tariffs, dubious legal theories, and front-running the courts. Signed by an executive with a long hist
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by ericmay 2mo ago
> Push your miltech with the "gadgets and toys and digital assistants" angle so that regular people foot the bill. I wouldn't characterize it so uncharitably. We need this military technology and if we aren't getting
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by ericmay 2mo ago
> I wrote "Those trade deals aren't worth the paper they're written on", you seem to be responding as if I wrote "nonexistent". That's just your opinion though. I say they're worth the paper they&#
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by ericmay 2mo ago
> No, that's the point, they're not. Do you want me to quote formal trade agreements that were made or are you able to just do a Google search yourself and see? > Same in reverse. He could be everyone's favourite uncle
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by ericmay 2mo ago
> That doesn't make sense. Are you accusing me of trolling? Based on what? I'm not accusing you of anything, but if you are going to accuse me of trolling then I'll assume you are admitting to trolling instead. > The op
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by ericmay 2mo ago
> At this point I'm just going to assume you're trolling. Well done, I guess. Every accusation is a confession. > "Sure, I am an abusive asshole. But you need me, so I'm going to continue to be an abusive asshole.
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by ericmay 2mo ago
> Those trade deals aren't worth the paper they're written on while Trump is around. Everybody is aware of this, the only difference is that Trump seems to think he's the only one who knows. But they are still real trade d
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by ericmay 2mo ago
> From the HN community guidelines: "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith." If you’re going to quote these gu
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by ericmay 2mo ago
Then that has been the case at least since the Obama years. There is a lot of truth in the failure of Congress and how it has abdicated its power to the Executive and Judicial branches but to say we are closer to a dictatorship than at any
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by ericmay 2mo ago
> A whole 1.1% of their trade is with Russia. A "massive amount." I'll leave this fact here for others. I want the US to step up and end the war in Ukraine and kick Russia out, including US forces on the ground in Ukraine.
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I didn’t claim that it was n_n
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Their lack of specificity does not invalidate my comment. > and countries in general being a lot less willing to negotiate for trade agreements the Americans can't credibly promise to keep. We have a lot of trade deals and have crea
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by ericmay 2mo ago
shrug If people feel that way then there’s no reason to do anything besides whatever we want. We are untrustworthy, unreliable, highly volatile (anything else we should add?) and every Canadian/European is proudly chanting death to A
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by ericmay 2mo ago
I wrote that the Anglosphere liberated Western Europe, I didn’t write that the USA beat Germany nor did I write that the Anglosphere beat Germany. I chose those words carefully precisely because to say “they beat Germany” while true in some

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