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Nah, that's only true because the US fought in accordance with the Geneva Convention. It could have easily turned the entire country to glass if it wanted to.
Would American soldiers do so? If you think they all would, you have no understanding of history.
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When it goes on just a little too long, it can result in the French Revolution and 1917 and the election of populist candidates with unexpected consequences. So sure, not a given, but it’s a risk that goes up as conditions get worse.
French revolution I can still see as consequences but Bolsheviks just took land and gave it to the new nobelity (the state).
This is unsubstantiated by historical evidence. No new class of "hereditary bureaucrats" emerged to replace the nobility; there was remarkably high movement between workers and officials, and even up to the very end of the Soviet Union, high officials were former day workers who had worked their way up the ranks.
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I could say the same for you. Seriously though, I don't know what you are thinking when you say "Are you aimlessly reading comments in strict isolation?". I don't know what's unclear and what I should expand. If you treat everyone this way there is no way people will talk to you or take you seriously.
> I could say the same for you. It, like every other followup response I have written, was a question. Do you mean that you would ask the same thing? > If you treat everyone this way there is no way people will talk to you or take you seriously. If asking questions means people will not talk to me or take me seriously, that's fine. What purpose would continually asserting random statements serve?
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Just to add some hope and a different perspective, we received 23 applicants for an entry-level or early-career software developer position when it was open for a couple of months in early 2025. This is about the same number of applicants we usually get for an opening. Applicant count for similar positions by year: 23 - 2025 (the position I mentioned) 31 - 2025 10 - 2019 The above are three jobs where I was on the hi…
If you're willing to share, was this a remote or in-person/hybrid position? Which job sites do you list on (if any)?
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Unless it's a government job, the interviewers don't have guns. They just have money. Nobody said I have to talk to them.
> " Nobody said I have to talk to them. " You don't need money? NEED money, like your life depends on money to keep surviving? 'cos most people do and don't have your luxurious options.
I am actually quite surprised there isn't a service out there that will use ai to do the interview for an applicant (at least that I know of). I mean if the hiring company has so little respect for the process why should the interviewee.
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Why? They can't read my CV? Send me an email if you need clarifications. Don't waste my time trying to appeal to a bot.
> Still, stretched-thin HR teams say it’s the only way to handle thousands of applicants.
> “The truth is, if you want a job, you’re gonna go through this thing,” Adam Jackson, CEO and founder of Braintrust, a company that distributes AI interviewers, tells Fortune. “If there were a large portion of the job-seeking community that were wholesale rejecting this, our clients wouldn’t find the tool useful… This thing would be chronically underperforming for our clients. And we’re just not seeing that—we’re se…
Frankly I think they’re pushing snake oil on gullible HR departments.
Then again, they’re probably cheaper than many human interviewers & recruiters who added little to the selection process either.
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I mean sure but also very few of Talibs who first faced the US military had lived to see its withdrawal.
That's the whole point. They were willing to die for it forever and at some point we weren't anymore. That's how war works now. It's always been true to some extent but conflict is just getting more and more asymmetrical with no obvious upper limit. At some point the Houthi in a cave with a five hundred dollar DJI drone and rage in his heart is king in that world: the only way to lose is to care about something that…
Whereas the Houthis are a sufficient non-issue that shipping traffic treats them as an insurance cost, the US Navy's biggest problem is they'd really like laser rather then missile to cut that drone out of the sky (which is to say: they enjoyed Iranian backing meaning they were smuggled surprisingly capable antiship missiles, and they won't be getting many more of those now).