netstack
Texas is freedom land
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netstack
Texas is freedom land
1hr ago
Do you have to be deranged to make anti-Trump claims? Sometimes the guy makes bad choices.
There was a time when ordering a new war in the Middle East, and hold the exit strategy, was one of those obviously bad decisions. People joked about it. Nothing I’ve seen from this iteration has changed that calculus.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
1hr ago
Can you see Trump signing on to a strategy like that? Looking ineffective/losing to encourage others to step up? Because I can’t. It’s completely against his brand.
I find it much more likely that he gambled on an in-and-out, five-day adventure. Blow up their assets, decapitate the leadership, get an easy peace deal. Foot in the door.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
1hr ago
Well, I for one am still glad to see the writeup.
Generally speaking, these are people who one would think would be typically desiring a more expansive understanding of birthright citizenship,
This is a good reminder that politics, especially in the courts, don’t always fall on public-discourse partisan lines. Maybe that’s been less true in the Trump era?
Either way, looking at the Circuit Court’s decision, there’s a conflict between the appellants and the entire Samoan government, which has historically not wanted citizenship. Since that intermediate level is also democratically elected, it gets the allegiance. There’s some analogy to the Native American nations. In this sense, the Biden administration is choosing between the majority and minority positions within American Samoa. I’m not surprised that they declined to jump on that grenade.
I agree that it has no bearing on today’s question. There’s no intermediate layer of government to which illegal immigrants (or their children) owe allegiance. We’re back to Wong Kim Ark: jurisdiction or no?
netstack
Texas is freedom land
2hr ago
299/320.
Worst category: aesthetic, 42/50.
Fewest attempted: literary, 30/30. I guess I was less willing to guess.
That was fun!
netstack
Texas is freedom land
5hr ago
Ah, another victim of the urge for a warm-water port.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
6hr ago
50/50 on whether it was gonna be that or the Groverhaus
netstack
Texas is freedom land
1d ago
Who is “we”, exactly?
I don’t think there’s a ton of overlap between the circles who most criticize American hegemony and the ones which compare everything to Roman history.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
1d ago
A perennial failure of all military thinking, mind you. Sad as it is, we are not uniquely unable to see the forest for the trees.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
2d ago
Motion tracking got much better, I think. That and the VR improvements might just be due to cheaper hardware related to phone tech? I’m not really sure.
Drones (consumer or otherwise…) advanced a lot in the same period. Everything from cheap commercial filming to light shows to endpoint package delivery. This is some combination of software + control hardware + insane battery developments, which are in turn related to the adoption of electric cars. Compare also the advances in prestige robotics, like BD’s Atlas and Spot.
Related, computer vision looks completely different than it did when I was in school. Even excluding AI!
Additive manufacturing has taken off. Prototyping, obviously, but also aviation and electronics fab. It’s become vastly more accessible to hobbyists, too.
Video calling exploded for obvious reasons. I think it had the opportunity to catch up with other advancements in streaming video. Speaking of which, social media accelerated a lot in the late 2010s. TikTok launched in 2016; all the American tech companies joined the party.
Oh right. Commercial spaceflight.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
3d ago
I don’t think mines block off everyone. They’re usually designed to anchor in place and wall off specific areas. You leave a few safe paths and either guard the secret (hard to do vs. the U.S.!) or concentrate your firepower in those spots.
Obviously, not everything works perfectly, which is why they’re feared and hated…
netstack
Texas is freedom land
3d ago
I really doubt that they think so, but I suppose I haven’t seen the sentiment firsthand.
I would posit that you could get the average college student to cheer for mass killings if President Trump spoke out against them. Countersignaling is cheap.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
3d ago
Was there ever a hope of arbitration? I figured China was laughing all the way to the bank.
I’ve heard no third-worldists gloating, for what it’s worth. Maybe that makes me lucky or oblivious. Most of the critics I’ve seen are in the doomsaying mode.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
3d ago
Didn’t know that about Sublight Drive. Awesome story. I would not describe it as conservative in any way, though.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
3d ago
The algorithm decided I should learn about this game last month by recommending some video about “How I Accidentally Set an Opus Magnum Record.” Can’t find the link atm but it covered very similar data to your post. This was before the DLC.
I think my favorite thing about De Re Metallica is the translation by a certain mining engineer. History may be a foreign country, but it’s apparently a small one.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
3d ago
Got drunk Sunday night and bought Kerbal Space Program. Immediately questioned my sanity as I tried to find the symmetry buttons. Next day, now that we’re sober, my fiancée and I are playing through the tutorials. She runs flights, I run the designer.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
3d ago
Normally I’m inclined to say “don’t worry about the publishers, the free market will provide.” Someone will pick up the money on the sidewalk. There are imprints out there which publish Nazi stuff for historical interest. Surely whatever tomes you’ve found can’t have worse optics…right?
netstack
Texas is freedom land
4d ago
That’s an interesting way to describe the rest of the Cold War…
netstack
Texas is freedom land
5d ago
People yelling at you in the “public discourse” is a low bar. It doesn’t tell you about the motivations. If you look at what Democrats actually vote for, it’s not “maximalist” anything.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
8d ago
How exactly are you supposed to argue the object of a policy without questioning motives?
literally the entire rest of the world
No, it’s not. It’s really not. Lots of places allow a driver’s license, which wouldn’t be good enough for this bill. They also tend to integrate their existing database of citizens, which America stubbornly refuses to do, so they have a ready-made option. I daresay most of the other democracies are smaller and more centralized, too; everyone loves to hate on European paternalism.
Man. You keep posting the same shit, and it hasn’t started looking any more compelling.
It does kind of make me curious about one thing. What are your opinions on Islam?
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