yes, took 17 years and $12 billion (twice budgeted cost!)

So yes, we could do that, will take massive amount of money.

where were the parents? takes a long time to get to that state.

If you read again what I wrote, I was commenting in the need to take crap, not the willingness. It is a difference and a rather big one.

A child with mental issues left alone for a long period of time is definitely the fault of the parents.

The more relevant analogy to your nonsense 'raped' claim would be "the child became a rapist, getting with others to take a girl 'behind the bushes" at school as the black inner city kids say. that too is horrible lack of parenting.

Let me guess, you have no children. Or they are a mess.

I have shocking news for you, most minors wouldn't believe a stupid machine, sign or computer that advocated suicide. Where were the parents?

Courts of a bunch of failures at parenting are irrelevant, lawyers are scum and the worst get promoted to judge. Not admissible evidence.

Like a typical modern snowflake you shift blame from those responsible. This is why inner cities are hellholes.

ooo, 200 pounds more than my '64 super wildcat, 428 cubic inches of 360 hp big pp 8 mpg gasoline suck. A chevy nova once crossed the centerline and hit it, poor thing lost a third of its length. Had to buff out the scuff and put in new headlight bulb

the left-wing racism peaked twice under Obama and Biden; certain demographics made more random hate crimes on the streets, in buses and trains, in small businesses

Sure, the right wing flavor is bad too.

No amount of AI can make up for the number of interceptors. The entire dome metaphor is stupid and misleading. Layered air defense systems have been around since forever. Slapping the AI and dome label on it doesn't change this one bit. It's just marketing.

The only new quality in air defense are laser based systems such as the British Dragon Fire. But those aren't a dome either.

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OK. So just petty.

And BTW I am based in the "51st state" and advocate that we need a nuclear break out capability because of such nice neighbors as you.

Well, I can see that you never made that experience. I have.

Indeed. People with a good education have _options_. And that means they do not have to take crap. Obviously, quite a few assholes do not like to have that type of person around.

It really depends. As degrees in the US are a big business, there are many worthless degrees and many that you can get easily, making them worthless if you did it the easy way.

Funny thing. The largest private (i.e. for profit) University in Germany currently has problems because many students find the degrees are not valuable and they do not learn a lot. No such problems with the regular ones. I think commercial education is just broken because of perverted incentives.

Getting a degree does not absolve you from really learning and being good at things. I think a significant pert of the people with degrees that have trouble finding jobs did select "easy" ones or took it wayyyy to easy getting them. Commercial "education" will make that easy, but you waste your time and money that way.

It's interesting that when pushed the degree-mongers always come back to 'well, a degree isn't training you to do a job, it's teaching you to think and, uh, you have fun and shit.'

And you're going to pay $100,000+ for that? For $100,000 you could travel the world for years and meet a whole lot of interesting people and do a whole lot of interesting things.

Exactly. They'll be given a high-level job where they just have to do what they're told... which requires neither intelligence or education.