A nuclear power lost...
Vietnam
Korea (tie is both losing)
Iraq
Afghanistan (twice; arguably they both lost their empires too.)
Outside nations were involved back then too.
Russian losses will be greater this time than that time. Somebody look it up; I bet they lost more money already.

It's like drug dealers. Addiction is only 1 step removed.

Robots are not better drivers. period. Eventually; soon, they will be for MOST situations. The last 10% might take decades...

Something to think about is infrastructure and the environment. It's all made to help stupid humans driver better. We are trying to have the robots adapt to a human designed environment. If we spent a fraction of that money and effort making things easier for the robots we'd already likely have the robots winning nearly the whole thing. Such as having the cars talk with each other; we don't need street lights; the cars can negotiate directly. Road markers such as painted lines are for human vision. a robot can do better with something else. Precise GPS like beacons - sure, somebody could mess with that... but then somebody could paint the lines on the road or change signs to confuse many humans. Major routes can be upgraded - special roads exclusively for robots...which would be much faster in speed as well. plus you have the massive waste of owning a car which could be driving around for others the 90% of the time it's parked with just 1 owner...

A great many idiot humans are driving; if we could stop them from driving that would greatly improve everything!

If we required humanoid robots for everything we'd have nothing today; but we have space probes etc. for generations because the situations didn't require a humanoid to complete the task... in fact, the custom built to task bots were better than humans already.

Words mean nothing anymore; especially online. "Conservative" is a brand name that within todays context in the USA means a Trumpist, a modern American franchise of Fascism... which is by design, a franchise that is customized to each nation and destined for endless war. Republican stands for even less than nothing and is conflated with "conservative." The low vocabulary clouds people's ability to think and is right out of 1984. When talking physically in the real world, it's quite different because you have a context that greatly reduces the internet word games created by missing contexts; plus the non-written communication that provides a 2 way feedback between two people. Personally, I use "hate" broadly from dislike to anger; on many things I'm habitually broad which does give me a measure from how people interpret and react. People here will say they hate a food but still eat a little of it sometimes while another food that makes them gag also gets the label.

As far as the actual meaning of conservative, I'm often classified as conservative; especially, when it comes to new technology, even more so from within the tech community.

I have relatives and friends and former friends who are American idiots that gradually just ran off the cliff the their fellow sheep over the last few decades. Gullible and slow from the start but just joined the cult as it slowly went crazy - not really noticing other than thinking everybody else is "crazy" for not agreeing with their delusional perspective.

One even began spouting racist shit openly and using the N word.

I work around a university community as well. I see righteous fanatics on both "sides" all gradually following textbook Russian subversion tactics. I have only met 1 trans fanatic who was mildly toxic; most the toxic woke are advocates for other people and they are few in number but quite harmful. Technology amplifies people who normally would be ignored and dismissed in the past and makes everything worse overall.

BS. Conservatives obsess over everything that disgusts them; it's seriously their kink. The ones I know are always raging over their disgust and twisted dark nightmares. It seems to trigger some liberals into becoming annoying trolls who piss off everybody and so we have a cycle that tries to involve the vast majority who simply would rather ignore the whole thing.

Sport is so crazy a topic; the trans sport issue had to be invented by a conservative propagandist.

I have a racist lawyer relative. I didn't need an extreme example to grasp the concepts of how people circumvent rules and regulations; but apparently you need a lot of extra learning...

Any rule you create to stop racists from harming people will be circumvented by a never ending amount of games. The ONLY way to stop them is to get into absolutes like race/sex quotas. Not forever, but it needs to happen whenever things get bad.

For a while, there will be under-qualified people; due to supply and demand but I find it quite idiotic people bitch about merit and race when there always is a larger merit problem; acting as if merit wasn't a problem before... My experience is that minorities have less of a problem than white men; most the incompetence I experienced for DECADES has been white people (I'm 100% white.) I think Americans like politicians who are incompetent and stupid because they IDENTIFY with that! The real minority is those of us who are actually competent (BTW, not even half earned degrees, the reading and math levels are at the level of children... and they voted for Trump, which is just above marrying your sibling.)

The vague highly interpretative nature of the Heritage Foundation's assault on freedom allows them a vast gaping hole of legal games to terrorize anybody who agrees to their deals. It does not matter if you kill off the old Affirmative Action, the new DEI replacement, or create something newer. If you displease them they will invent contradictions to conclude you are in violation that will take years of suffering to finally have a judge apply basic logic so you win until they invent the next assault; all of which cost them nothing.

The BS they would make you do to get answers and homework taken down was the give away. They would want proof of copyright to remove the materials but if it was individual questions (most all but separated) or placed under the wrong school they'd not remove it.

Prosecutions and corrupt legal practices were a long standing problem of the UK and history which the founders were aware of.

The pardon power most of all needs to exist to protect the president or governor from their own family from being targeted by the corrupt to seek revenge or coerce them. You must have seen many stories with plots along such lines.

Secondly, the public lacks a way to correct popularly wrongful convictions except by a single elected official (some judges are elected but they are supposed to ignore popular opinion.)

A corrupt president can be prosecuted after a future honorable SCOTUS overturns the corrupt invention of immunity. More importantly, the house and senate, like a board of directors, can fire the CEO/president politically without ANY need for the legal system; it's a political trial where ultimately the voters (shareholders) decide what is acceptable behavior.

This is a fundamentally flawed system where many others do better: A prime minister loses a confidence vote and elections are held AS NEEDED not on a mindless arbitrary time schedule! Furthermore, a total incompetent who causes a government shutdown is going to get the boot in any functional government.

So it's the ignorant American who is to blame for all of this; which BTW is a defining trait worldwide for Americans.

NOPE. The keyword is "interpretation." Which means any pathetic embarrassment for a reason or even unjustified ruling (they are not required to give any explanation) can destroy pretty much anything written no matter how clear.

The 2nd Amendment does not give the right to arms; if you have reading comprehension, you can see that it's for a well regulated militia not individuals. That was misread into the BS it is today in the most blatant fraud before the presidential immunity ruling. See an honest chief justice concur: https://youtu.be/hKfQpGk7KKw?s...

Actually, I'm surprised at the quality of the bot's citations. I would have expected Rush Limbaugh or other stupid hack. The last "intelligent" book along such lines I saw was bloated BS fluffed up to confuse and sound smart. Like a con-man I met who was a fake professor from the UK. Interesting guy... caught, jailed and deported for the 3rd time last I heard, 2012. He's probably back again, rich, and with another rube wife. His marks were under-educated, largely right wing.

So...when the human "bots" sound just like AI bots, have we reached parity? I would think we could do Charlie Kirk already... sometimes he made me think of an evil version of Eliza; other times he just channeled debate prick tactics.

The 17th amendment:
maybe it sounds bad but have you seen the type of person who is popular in the state government? Who would they pick to be a senator?
Not the best people... it was a problem and powerful wealthy people could control the state gov enough to pick their man - back then some folk were rich enough to control a state. So, people passed the 17th. They failed to pass an amendment to curb ridiculous wealth expanding to the point of threatening the federal government. Today that is a major problem. It's still harder and more expensive to sucker the voting population and consolidate the media than buy off government officials.

MAGA = mega retard

Even more insidious to have bots assign a ton of homework... and to cite people that take so much time to debunk; efforts with elements of truth burred which sometimes looks like an intellectual DoS attack where making shit up is fast and limitless and truth, logic, facts are hopelessly limited - and creating plenty of doubt in common sense reasoning often benefits the attacker; allowing them to further isolate and divide.

The problem with a lack of healthy REAL discourse, is only growing worse with tech. Bots like this and intellectual propaganda sources are destroying hope. All sides are impacted. The "left" can be isolated simply because the "right" has gone insane and pointless to engage which as a result promotes the left from getting high on their own supply which results over time in them being more isolated and becoming as much at risk for extreme delusions as the "right" is already. The rare extreme "woke" leftist does exist and they ARE TOXIC freaks I have had the misfortune to encounter and in an academic setting too...they also are adept at using that system to severely punish opposition. Millennials being so simple, makes this extremely difficult. That generation tends to leap to binaries without much depth; more than other generations. I've written them off.

Who started this problem is more of an academic exercise (it's the right) but it creates problems when 1 "side" is allowed to isolate and get extremely delusional. So, we have more divided factions who rarely get exposed to each other and avoid being controversial and offensive when they are. This includes religious groups who get too confident in their faith leading to violence eventually when doubts are brought up. Righteous certainty is dangerous stuff for any humans to have.

Chatbot spitting out more talking points again with the huge bias they are starting to have at increasing engagement by getting you to talk more.

FYI to others: social promotion is pushed by bad parents from all groups and bending to them happens in many schools; including private schools, who can get away with being more blatant about it BTW.