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your complete lack of self awareness is annoying but also amusing :)

wow thats absolutely tiny. thanks for the detailed info. very interesting :))

given your inability to engage with an opposing point of view, youre definitely not a bot. So ill take your ad hominem as praise

> It isn't "my scenario". These are real cases maybe English isnt your native language, but "scenario" doesnt require the situation to be not real > Nothing in there about "likeabi…

The parent comment present a scenario where the law is ignored b/c the judge decides for himself it shouldn't apply. I'm pointing out that this kind of approach is fundamentally un…

Sorry but that seems like an insane system where whole classes of actions effectively are illegal but probably okay if you're likeable. In your scenario the obvious solution is to …

Is it just for leisure or commercial traffic? it's a lot smaller than I imagined. I can't picture a river barge fitting in it, but it's hard to tell the scale

Right now is an AI goldrush. They can get crazy lucrative investments and lock in amazing deals. In a decade the Chinese tech will catch up and the AI boom will slow down and the T…

Making a new plane is obviously a major effort. Updating avionics/engine also seems extremely complex. However, the alternative I was suggesting is just using a commercial passenge…

I mean I think people have been complaining about the KC-135 being too old for a very long time, and from what I heard the replacement was urgently needed. At least there I can see…

Why is such an ancient plane still being used? Lack of funding to use something newer? Or it has some capability that can't be replicated? I would imagine it's incredibly expensive…

I think the real problem is that the government is not structured in an accountable way and things like DOGE can happen. These things basically don't happen in other democracies. T…

Are we supposed to structure out society so we're safer in the case that the Chinese invade and use all our institutions against us? There is a risk-benefit tradeoff to make. Cripp…

The Rights are not intended as preemptive. You don't have a right to free speech b/c otherwise maybe the government regulation of speech will get out of hand. You have it because i…

maybe naiive but isnt this what "comments" in journals are for? theyre usually published with a response by the authors

yeah, this is exactly it. all the arguments kind of boil down to "well how about if the government does illegal or evil stuff?" its very similar to arguments about the second ammen…

Have the recipient server be owned by a priest and API metadata that says it's a confession

Are you trying to say there is a parallel in that the right voices read the tea leaves correctly and knew that Russia was going to be a crazy rogue state? And that similarly, there…

Russia is not an active economic rival. If they weren't actively attacking neighbors and interfere with governments around the world they would be basically irrelevant. I think the…

Okay they have a small limited amount of border disputes that are wrapped up in their nationalism. But they're not instigating coupe-detats is other countries to get favorable regi…

China as the enemy is a fabricated narrative, bc culturally we seem to have a need to have another cold war, we need a "bad guy" in reality theyre just economic rivals. But then ag…

Ah okay, thanks for explaining it! Just based on the name, journal and metadata it seemed like a research paper.. and I was honestly a bit surprised. But I obviously don't publish …

Just from reading the abstract, it feels like the authors didn't even attempt at trying to be objective. It hard to take what they're saying seriously when the language is so loade…