throwawayoldie

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by throwawayoldie 1y ago
> I just can't imagine why a submersible structural designer would select composites for this application Maybe it's easier to imagine if you consider the designer in question not as a submersible structural designer per se, bu
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by throwawayoldie 1y ago
In the Year Of Our Lord 2025, there is no difference between the two.
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by throwawayoldie 1y ago
Yes.
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by throwawayoldie 1y ago
"If we pay the Dane, certainly he won't ever come back for more Danegeld."
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by throwawayoldie 1y ago
OK, agreed, there's at least two good reasons.
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by throwawayoldie 1y ago
"Third planet of this Class G star dominated by psychotic tool-using apes. Stay away."
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by throwawayoldie 1y ago
I mean...that's what the job is.
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by throwawayoldie 1y ago
I think you just wrote the epitaph for the human race.
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by throwawayoldie 1y ago
And now let's imagine what might happen if the US military tried to occupy a country full of guerillas who look like them, dress like them, speak the same language, and share a cultural background.
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by throwawayoldie 1y ago
> it wouldn't have seemed at all implausible the USA would have faced an actual communist revolution Read the first volume of Robert Caro's biography of LBJ, and you'll see that the militant farmers and tradespeople of Oh
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by throwawayoldie 1y ago
Switzerland.
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by throwawayoldie 1y ago
It says that WWII happened in someone else's front yard.
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by throwawayoldie 1y ago
"First American genocide?" Maybe ask a Native American about that...if you can find one.
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by throwawayoldie 1y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethiopia#Derg_era_(1974%E2%80%... comes to mind. So, even if you weren't factually incorrect as well as smug, what's your actual point?
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by throwawayoldie 1y ago
Some very close haircuts.
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by throwawayoldie 1y ago
I've noticed the word "bullshit" is making a big comeback, which is encouraging to me. Because, good Lord, is there ever so much bullshit.
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by throwawayoldie 1y ago
There's a third possibility: collective action. It's easy to forget this, because the powers that be have been working hard for many decades to denigrate it.
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by throwawayoldie 1y ago
Also reminiscent of the old Onion article from the Bush Jr. era invasion of Iraq: "This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t" https://theonion
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by throwawayoldie 1y ago
I take your point, but whose side do you think the government is on? Ours?
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by throwawayoldie 1y ago
I seem to remember a few months ago reading about wargames and/or scenario planning for a hypothetical US/China war, and the conclusion was, the US Navy gets thoroughly and quickly rekt.
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by throwawayoldie 1y ago
> They get hate because support war efforts / police / intelligence. Right. That's exactly why they get hate. So what's the problem with that?
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by throwawayoldie 1y ago
90% of the time, the answer is "Ronald Reagan". Most of the remaining 10%, the answer is "Jack Welch".
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by throwawayoldie 1y ago
"While some worry AI will dehumanize the hiring process, we believe the opposite." "AI will create jobs instead of destroying them." "AI will solve the climate crisis despite doubling or tripling humanity's ene
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by throwawayoldie 1y ago
It's where we're headed _if we let these assholes get away with it_. They have the money and guns, but we have the numbers.
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by throwawayoldie 1y ago
And also _every third phrase_ is _rendered in bold_ because _otherwise nobody can read it_
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by throwawayoldie 1y ago
That's bullshit. It's about having talent they can exploit under the threat of losing their visa.
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by throwawayoldie 1y ago
It definitely sounds intriguing, in the same sense that a bad car accident is intriguing.
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by throwawayoldie 1y ago
Meta: "AI Agents enable the multiverse" Oooh, I'm one square away from hitting Bullshit Bingo!
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by throwawayoldie 1y ago
That's ridiculous. It's clearly his parents who were being unprofessional, by conceiving him on 7/20.
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by throwawayoldie 1y ago
Let's hope.

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