NaibofTabr

“And thus I clothe my naked villainy : With odd old ends stolen forth from holy writ; and seem a saint, when most I play the devil.”

Windows 11

Growing and learning is the process tho?

Not sure about the job part.

It was last year. You missed it.

Meanwhile, the US is sending Ukraine *checks notes* 50 year old airframes…

Neither the US nor China has found reason enough to commit any of their fancy, expensive hardware yet… that’s probably a good thing. Both the US and China are happy to watch Russia burn out its military accomplishing very little (for different reasons, but ultimately the same goal). The US and China are still on trade dispute terms because a militarily weakened Russia favors both of their interests.

And comparatively, no other country’s military matters at this level. Sure there are other nations that spend high amounts of their GDP on military buildup, but none of them have global deployment capability at scale like the US or China.

So I guess the question is, when the Ukraine situation eventually ends, do the US and China square off for a fight? or do they go back to the quietly simmering economic tension that is the status quo? … with Putin’s control of the Russian nuclear stockpile as a wildcard.

Technically US customary units were re-defined as specific values of their equivalent metric units (for instance, 1 inch === 25.4 mm), so you are using the metric system regardless, but with weird conversion factors.

The majority of U.S. customary units were redefined in terms of the meter and kilogram with the Mendenhall Order of 1893 and, in practice, for many years before. These definitions were refined by the international yard and pound agreement of 1959.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_customary_units

They pick up a different whip.

The solution is not better cops, it’s better oversight and accountability for the cops. Authority without accountability always leads to abuse.

Exactly right.

Free speech means that the government can’t prosecute you for what you say (except in certain specific circumstances).

Free speech doesn’t mean that I can’t kick you out of my house for what you say.

What we need is a government-operated fediverse instance to serve as a public forum.

The problem is that the tankies are running the instance and get off on banning anyone that doesn’t toe the line of the party ideology.

No, they don’t, they’re very quick to delete comments from and ban users who disagree with their groupthink.

The very last thing a hexbear user wants is a genuine argument.

Oh come on, there’s nothing irresponsible or creepy about wanting to collect retinal images of every person on the planet into a single, Internet-connected database. You’re just being paranoid.

I’m not sure that I agree… a family is a lot more than a source of economic support. No amount of less hostile world can substitute for the social, cultural, educational or psychological functions of a family, and becoming a self-supporting adult has a lot to do with mental well-being (in addition to the economic aspects).

Maybe if there were less economic pressure overall there would be more functional families and ultimately fewer children in the foster care system… but that’s really just conjecture and I’m not sure how you’d go about trying to support such an argument with research.

I’m also curious how you define “hostile” and “normal humans” in this context.

“It’s worse than you thought.”

“This is gonna be bad.”

Going for the direct approach in the trailer. I can appreciate that.

The statement about billionaires is true, but also the reasons that people end up living on the streets are extremely complex and I’m not sure this sort of thing helps us actually talk about the real problems.

For instance, a lot of homeless people in the US are foster children who aged out of the care system:

Nationwide, the data show that an estimated 50 percent of the homeless population spent time in foster care.

reference

Money could maybe provide more resources to care for people, but the core issue here is that adults who were foster children lack the support of a family - which no amount of money can fix.

A more useful question to address homelessness would be “why do so many foster children struggle to become self-supporting adults, and what can we do to prevent that?”

Not Telegram. Signal is a better choice which has been audited by third parties and produces internal transparency reports.

Is it free if you have to conduct geological surveys to find the material, then do a bunch of digging to pull it out of the ground, then run a massive refining operation to get a moderately useful amount?

Wait why are we killing bears?

Here it is, and listed right here in this community. Did you look for it at all? Or were you just failing at trying to make a point?