I worried about this a couple of decades ago, when killing your newborn girl was a thing. Beyond that, you were setting up a nation with a 50 million excess of angry men who couldn't get gfs or wives.

Which would be right about now.

Beautiful woman teleports in, slashdot male walks up, states to her, "Let's have sex."

"Ewwww, gross!"

Back to corporations have no speech rights. What a brief interlude it was!

My company, my rules. For example almost all people working for me are Ukrainians, my policy is that Ukraine must win in this war against the murderous ruzzian aggression. Anyone not aligned with my values shouldn't be working here. I also completely support Israel, anyone not aligned with my values, shouldn't be working here.

Found the modded minecraft player.

government has long surpassed that threshold. Government shouldn't be so big, that its failure would take down the country, yet here we are, all of us.

Let's say I write you a letter (on paper) and I encrypt this letter using a cypher that only you and I know. The government intercepts this letter and asserts it contains evidence of a crime. Are you or I compelled to assist in the decryption of that letter? No? Then why should electronic communications be any different?

Beyond that, how does preemptive invasion of the privacy of all persons (which is exactly what backdoors in encryption amount to) so that, at some future time, the government can sift the communications of those who may have broken the law not equate to a general warrant?

Worse than that was the federal government asserting that you could not grow wheat on your own land for your own use because such constituted "interstate commerce." Wickard v. Filburn, 317 U.S. 111 (1942) upheld that ridiculous notion.

The most heinous of all crimes is dictatorship, based on number of deaths, rapes, child trafficking, and so on.

Dictatorship is maintained with terror and murder and growing technological panopticons.

E2EE is just what the doctor ordered to thwart this, the most heinous of crimes. It's tough enough as it is. We, the free west, should lead the way, not offer ready-made tools with ready-made patter for dictators to spout.

Compared to what? Like spending hundreds of billions a month on covid stuff, when the shut down economy is a trillion a month?

You are about to mod me down, but you will do the intellectually honest thing: file it away in the back of your mind and watch over the next few decades as things unfold.

Amelioration efforts are what will happen. Here's why you will mod me down: But amelioration offers no argument for politicians to get in the way until
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happens.

But nevermind that. Amelioration will be the solution.

They are orders of magniude difference in speed. The "combined problem" of delta subsidence AND OH MY GOT GW SEA RISE is the most distorting thing since CNN ran a story with the headline "global warming sea rise will be just like the tsunami" which killed 300,000 people.

Clicking on the link, 6 paragagraphs down, they say it will be 30 feet, "like the tsunami", but over 300 years.

So learn 2 hyperbole like your power broker masters. You only think I disbelieve. Because you don't think.

I have read multiple articles in "peer reviewed" journals, trying to explain why atmospheric CO2 didn't drop when emissions plummeted, and why the earth got warmer when atmospheric pollution levels droped. The articles are gibberish. I do remember that the environmental "science" classes I peeked at, then immediately dropped, when course shopping undergrad, contained the stupidist collection of humans I have ever run across.

I remember discussing the effect of the sun on the earth's temps with some enviro science professor, long ago. He said the sun had "no effect."

OK

Environmental "scientists" using "math" and calculating with "equations." Sure. Keep doing that math thing. Make lots of papers. Publish Publish. Inform politicians, so they can make laws. Go go go!

I just ignore all of it. Politicians and giant financials use all this crap to steal money and power. Since I've finally realized how dumb the average person on earth really is, I don't care any more.

The midwit phenomenon is the great truth of our age.

Mali struggles to keep its generators running. This is a corruption and dictator problem.

I've long said the biggest problem for humanity is death, as it has been since we've been humans, and the biggest problem with death is dictatorship and corruption slowing progress.

Putting it in terms of gw because that's the current concern in the west, puts the cart before the horse for major problems of humanity by several orders of magnitude.

Money, of course. It's much easier to string people along by saying "if only we had $30,000,000 to launch the full-scale version!"

It's a contemporary version of a "Dean Drive", with enough of a sketchy and poorly reviewed patent to encourage people who crave a propellant free drive for use in space.

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Aegis equipped ships have successfully hit ballistic missiles and satellites in testing (and probably under operational conditions as of last weekend), and both of those are, by definition, hypersonic targets. While the US Navy doesn't comment on what weapons a ship might be carrying, it's almost a certainty that all of them have some SM-3s in the magazines at this point.

The biggest current problem with the carrier groups projecting power is that their air wings have less combat power than they have had in the past due to both being smaller and composed entirely of strike fighters with relatively short ranges. Using half the Hornets as tankers solves the range problem but makes the availability problem worse in both the short and long terms. The F-35 appears to improve the range situation, shockingly (thought not by enough) and I would expect that, in war time, the Navy would probably augment the air wings significantly (there is definitely room on the decks).

As far as not getting close to anything that can harm them, any nation would be stupid to put its carriers any closer to anything that can shoot at them then it needs to. With that said, Ike is currently operating in the Red Sea where Iran's proxies can shoot at her and TR is currently in the East China Sea where China can shoot at her directly.