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You're welcome to care about as many things as you desire, at the same time, friend. It's a question of perspective and relative importance. The reply didn't comment about A and B …

Should your concern lie with individuals transcribing their own conversations, or with mass surveillance and wiretapping actively being executed by a broad range of official and co…

Kinetic energy scales with velocity squared (0.5 m v^2), so this result makes sense. Brakes dissipate constant energy, but the amount of energy it needs to disapate is going up muc…

Make up a code phrase/word for emergencies, share it with your family, then use it for these types of situations.

In addition you're attempting to recycle space junk ("bullets") when you're quite literally standing on planet packed to rafters with junk. The energy required to harvest the mater…

I'm sorry, "harvest space junk"? How on earth could that possibly be profitable? There is zero mystery why any VC, Midwest or otherwise, would not be interested in that business mo…

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Is that understanding based on any evidence or is it a personal theory?

I would take a citation on literally any single one of your statements

What kind of chair is that?

No, you definitely could not do it 20 years ago with hobbyist grade parts. The software basically did not exist and whatever tech there was was strictly hidden behind government ar…

"Military aviation accidents have killed 224 pilots or aircrew, destroyed 186 aircraft, and cost more than $11.6 billion since 2013"[1] "Combined with information from the Federal …

>> I find it a bit strange that the author leads with the example of wanting to "blind cancel", and then suggests that maturity and communication is the real answer to that scenari…

I generally agree with your sentiment but do also think there is value in some degree of flexibility and recognizing some plans have more significance than other. E.g. if the frien…

Sure, if you're operating under the assumption that a) he understands geo-politics and global defense better than the leadership of his country and b) he has better and more real-t…

Hey fella, you're the one moving goal posts here. First you say it was "used by the executive branch to dictate any military operation"... ie the executive branch are the ones call…

Sure if you take the most hardcore literal interpretation. It's just short hand for "the enemies of the state" or "whoever my duly elected leadership consider to be the bad guys". …

It might be naive but doesn't make the statement any less accurate or true. Some people have a strong belief, and faith, in democracy and democratic leaders. To the point that they…

This article was about the author's reasons for joining the military, not sure why you expect it to also be about the detailed history of a particular unit or the general ethics of…

I think that's a pretty disengenous take on the author's thought process. If you read the entire article it's clear that he believes in the concept of defending his country and tru…

Hard to tell if you're just trolling or being serious. * Nuremberg and "just following orders" was about actual orders to specific individuals to do things that were literal war cr…

"status games" might be in the same class of things as "don't think about x". Even by not playing... You're just playing on a different level (lower or higher).

Maybe. From your examples, though, if you think you're going to make any money whatsoever from the "weightlifting status" game you are in for a rude surprise. Similar to other exam…

You're saying that it's a guarantee that every single healthcare system (in the world?) will break down because of _sugar consumption_? Seriously?

It would only make sense if the company was able to offer a discount/different price when you use their billing system vs google/apple. Edit: though it's not clear if Google would …