What no one ever considers is what is happening right now in real time. They are actively pushing out the troops that would object morally to bad orders. The administration doesn't care if they are left with inferior troops, as long as the ones they have left will follow orders blindly and without question.

The stock market is such a goddamn pyramid scheme. The only reason it hasn't full on collapsed is because the people running the scam get bailed by US tax payers every time it breaks. Nevermind that they tricked us into tying our retirements into the continuous survival of this casino in a trench coat.

I used to do this when I lived in New York state and would occasionally travel down to New York city. It was stupidly cheaper to drive (and faster - which WTF whhhhhy). So I would rent a cheap spot in a garage near the outskirts of the city for the day and use public transport for the rest of the day. I remember being mad that it was cheaper and faster to drive and pay to store my car then it would have been to take the train. That's a problem. Especially when I had a train station in biking distance to my apartment at the time.

Vampire propaganda.

I've never met a real human person that loves AI. I've used it in very specific circumstances. I've met other people who've used it. But every one of those people share some variation of my opinion - It's useful for very few things and trash for the 99% of other things. I don't know who these lovers of AI are but I bet it's the same handful of idiots who all run in one or two social circles reinforcing each other's opinions on everything. If a person's ideas can't be challenged or they surround themselves with people exactly like themselves their minds are doomed to atrophy. Humans are coded to save energy. Talent and skill takes long grueling effort. AI allows the lazy to phone it in which allows the midiocre to cosplay as the talented. But AI is a tool. For people with reading/writing difficulties it can bridge gaps that previously required much more effort and many more resources. That independence has value, but AI is not a replacement for the novelist. Anyone who says that the sun shines out of AI's ass or the sun never sets on AI or whatever BS they're spouting is either a snake oil salesman or their mark. Neither should be given much oxygen.

Same. What the fuck, brain?

No. Worst are digit catalogs that don't allow for renaming or reordering. Why can't I fix how broken they are!?

I don't care if they were the worst people on earth walking the easier hiking path on the nicest day of the year. None of that matters! They left on a hike TOGETHER, and needed to return TOGETHER.

Full stop.

Anyone who can't follow that one simple rule has no business out on the trails.

DUDE! I hike. If you leave together, you FUCKING come back together. YOU want to break up, put on your big boy panties and do it AFTER everyone is home safe.

Also there is no such thing as "an easy day hike." Anything can go wrong in the wilderness and lackadaisical thinking is what gets people killed.

Soooo WWIII it is then?

FUCKING THANK YOU!

You know how they feed a death row inmate a last meal before sending them off to die. Kinda like that, only more fucked up because our troops are going to die for the machinations of billionaires and warlords.