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by skhunted 2y ago
It took 14 years before Exxon paid any money for the Exxon Valdez disaster. Suing is largely now for the rich. Things can be delayed so long that the people only get a pittance when factoring in inflation and opportunity costs.
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by skhunted 2y ago
When Morton Downey Jr. was a thing Mad Magazine did a spoof on this. In the cartoon one of the characters said, “I’m opposed to a waiting period for purchases of tanks, missles, and attack helicopters to private citizens but I do favor a 1
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by skhunted 2y ago
Can you elaborate on your view on this? I won’t respond but I am curious what the perspective is on this point of view.
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by skhunted 2y ago
I’m not a lawyer but my understanding is that lower courts try to see where SCOTUS is going and act accordingly. SCOTUS is going in the direction of limiting federal powers. This can be both good and bad and I’m not here commenting on wha
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by skhunted 2y ago
Thanks for the perspective. It’s been an interesting conversation.
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by skhunted 2y ago
What you are describing is just another aspect of modern warfare. It’s an arms race and an attempt to gain superiority in various areas/capabilities. What you are demonstrating is not the obsolescence of aircraft carriers but just an
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by skhunted 2y ago
Take the satellites out. Are the carriers still vulnerable? Isn’t this all part of combined arms? Neutralize the enemies advantages.
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by skhunted 2y ago
Taiwan means a lot less to the U.S. than it does to China. The U.S. is so afraid of confrontation with near peer adversaries that it puts many restrictions on Ukraine when Ukraine uses U.S. weapons. Ukraine and European defense are much m
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by skhunted 2y ago
Or former Pac fleet deputy chief of intel Fanell who confirmed tandem PRC hypersonics struck moving ships at sea a few years ago - two high end missiles from different sites 1000km inland synced to hit moving hull in time+space. Thank you
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by skhunted 2y ago
Those that are big enough to do major damage to an aircraft carrier can be intercepted by aircraft. Which is what I referred to when I mentioned air dominance being the key in this case. There are no loitering missiles. If you read the wi
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by skhunted 2y ago
There were political norms that were followed. What stopped it from happening was an unwritten agreement to follow these rules. Those norms have been upended. New norms will form.
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by skhunted 2y ago
I believe most memorization in school comes from using a concept so often you end up just knowing. Memorization for the sake of memorization does not work in my opinion.
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Middle launched from mainland China at a carrier fleet 1000 miles away isn’t going to hit with the current missile technology. Missiles are great at hitting fixed targets. They have some room for adjustments and maneuverability but not en
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by skhunted 2y ago
You have a tenuous grasp on reality. Regardless of your views on Taiwan being a country it is indisputably true that U.S. carrier fleets are a primary reason China can’t invade, blockade, or otherwise disrupt the integrity of Taiwan.
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by skhunted 2y ago
Given where this court is heading it’s clear that they will require a level of specificity in the writing of laws granting regulatory authority to agencies that is impractical. This impracticality in part comes from the fact that Republica
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by skhunted 2y ago
In the future such things as you describe will be a problem but not at this time. China can’t invade Taiwan because it doesn’t have the ability to deal with carrier fleets.
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by skhunted 2y ago
There are no missiles capable of loitering. (And if there were then they be essentially like airplanes and air dominance is what matters.) As such land launched missiles are mostly useless against carriers in open seas. By the time the m
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by skhunted 2y ago
Yes. There is food scarcity in North Korea and the political and economic environment there is not conducive to pursuing happiness. Probably people in rural North Korea want children for labor purposes but feeding them might be a burden.
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by skhunted 2y ago
Why do you think aircraft carriers are obsolete?
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by skhunted 2y ago
I’m ABD in math. It was 30 years ago that I decided to not get a Ph.D. because I realized that I was never going to be decent at research. In the last 30 years I have forgotten a great of mathematics. It is no longer true that I know Gal
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by skhunted 2y ago
To know something includes speed of regurgitation. Consider a trauma surgeon. You want them to know, off the top of their head, lots of stuff. You don’t want them taking their time and looking things up. You don’t want them redefining e
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by skhunted 2y ago
Around 40% of all undergraduate students are community college students. Community colleges have almost never have endowments. At my community college and at every other community college I know of tuition is set by the state government.
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by skhunted 2y ago
You have it backwards. Fox News compared itself to the “mainstream media” and labeled themselves “fair and balanced”. Conservatives ate that up and actually believe that Fox News is fair and balanced and that the “mainstream media” isn’t.
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by skhunted 2y ago
It is a wise propaganda tactic to label the exposing of inconvenient truths as “activist”, “mainstream media”, etc. All media can be labeled using such terms. The brilliance of Fox News was to preempt this fact by using the slogan “fair a
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by skhunted 2y ago
Yes.
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by skhunted 2y ago
Complicit in the sense of helping to set the stage for future abuses. Not complicit in the sense of conspiring. SCOTUS has made quite a few bad decisions which set the foundation that I speak of.
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by skhunted 2y ago
If your father is who I think he is then his fame is large in the mathematics community. His Ph.D. advisor was a terrible teacher as far as my experience with taking classes from him goes.
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Judicial complicity is not a minor thing.
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This is part of the foundation that will make doing bad things the new plolitcal norm.
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But if one really does believe the rulings are that bad and that they portend very bad things to come then a person should say as much. I can calmly and rationally say that these decisions are terrible. It’s not, in my opinion, hyperbole

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