This right here, this is it. You've nailed the reason I stopped caring about what Trump is destroying. Yes, yes he's destroying gestures wildly at everything -- but god dammit we need to destroy a lot of this stuff. We need to rebuild institutions that have failed us, from your local DMV and/or public school all the way up to Congress, the Supreme Court, the Executive.
All of it has been so thoroughly corrupted that it needs to be destroyed and recreated.
Yes, once the orderly destroying is done, the sensible people can step in and recreate these institutions from scratch while everyone else waits patiently.
Or, everything just gets way worse, for almost everyone.
Well absolutely. Half the times we're tough on kids is in hopes they don't permanently turn into adults their behavior reminds of
And as kids learning from adults (although the subject matter is different) is exemplified in To Kill a Mockingbird.
As of today I am periodically embarrassed to be an American. Periodic in the sense that every once in a while the shameless behavior of elites feels like I ok'd in the presence of foreigners. Today's climate reminds that in our society i guess as always the suck-ups, butt kisserers, and hustle at all costs is alive and well in the top 10% of society.
Relatedly, this is ultimately why European courts went they way of the dodo. Moody kings, palace intrigue, the maneuvering for kinship to power, the gossip, the scandals whilst spending stupid money so aggravated people we quit.
I seriously dislike this current environment. And I can report not everybody is that way. They're still a few classy lads and ladies out there... but gosh the players are no longer afraid of sunlight at the same time
> Relatedly, this is ultimately why European courts went they way of the dodo. Moody kings, palace intrigue, the maneuvering for kinship to power, the gossip, the scandals whilst spending stupid money so aggravated people we quit.
European courts went the way of the dodo because the insane material affluence unlocked by industrialization definitely swayed the balance in favor of the merchant class over nobility. The average person under monarchy had absolutely no exposure to palace intrigue & gossip.
We (the US) probably spend too much per munition and do not have manufacturing capacity like China. We're not helpless, but i dont get the sense we have plenty of stock either. Both are problems.
(1) In this back and forth I'm surprised mines in the straight are not mentioned.
(2) im having difficulty seeing how cheap drones incapacitates a carrier. They are there to project force well into enemy territory for precise strikes. The carrier can be some distance from the shore. Now, the question turns to strike what? Surely drone manufacturing plants and barracks would have to be on list or ... they'd be less effective.
(3) if drones are sub-mach speeds why not shoot down with a glorified gattleling gun as opposed to expensive missiles or lasers?
Sometimes I think the US federal government has too much money. The management function is to say yes to resources in set A and no to everything else. Now, if there's too much money so |A| can grow quite big, you don't have to be good at management anymore to pay for A. Same thing on munitions. Does every damn thing need to be $100k+? Maybe the Pentagon needs less cash.
Our ability as Americans to run large complex projects sucks apart from nasa and a few national labs.
Wow! This was a fantastic read! Not only well written, it's all brand new to me, something to share with my better half who would love it, and describes new viewpoints I had no idea were around.
There's a subtle point here that I hadn't fully considered before: even three languages with somewhat different ideas about what the language itself should be like are mostly in agreement about how builds should work (or more specifically, how they shouldn't work). There's somewhat of a consensus in terms of what people expect from a language nowadays in terms of tooling, and as the parent comment I originally responded to was saying, I have to wonder whether any amount of changes in the C++ language itself would be enough to matter without also reaching parity in that regard.
"In this setup, a single photon is placed in a superposition of two paths using a beam splitter. Along one path, the photon experiences event A before event B; along the other, it experiences B before A."
So in an article about ico (indefinite causal order) how do we we know that? That's definite causal order (albeit no measurement has taken place yet as photon in super position traverses these paths).
The ico part must be about measurement... later on ... but i find the write up confusing.
We're in a place where the antagonist is king, and entitled. It's like the walter in "breaking bad" broke out into wider culture and all the maga morons said "oohhh meee tooo" at the same time.
Thank goodness the judge did the right thing ... not everyone is bad ... but the cockroachs are on some kind of rebull stimulant nowadays.
I mean look at it from elon's standpoint: when you're that stuck on stupid he's right and you're wrong. Class it up people! The elon's of the world are getting fed up!
But like the movie American Psycho the American presentation of greed is starkly in your face ... it's something horrifying to see
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