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Comment We taught boys and girls to hate marriage (Score 1) 80

...and gave them substitutes for love and family.
 
Everything except motherhood for girls (career first, girboss, be promiscuous and don't settle down), and everything except responsibility for boys (porn, online gambling, women who will sleep with you but not have kids with you).
 
There's a real change happening though with Gen Z - they are going to church, they want to get married, they are quicker to have kids. Maybe this gets better?

Comment Re:More Blatant Corruption (Score 1) 33

The Big Lie (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_lie) worked in the 3rd Reich (and many other places and continues to work) not because the Nazis were a lot better at using it. The Big Lie works because, generally, people are dumb and without insight. Present the average person with anything where disagreeing might incur a cost, and they will readily agree, regardless of what they agree to and regardless of how evil that makes their action.

Comment Re:Financial in nature, no kidding? (Score 1) 33

In the ruling on Wednesday, the court acknowledged that Anthropic "will likely suffer some degree of irreparable harm absent a stay," but that the company's interests "seem primarily financial in nature."

Yeah, the company's interests are financial. That's what companies are for.

Actually, no. That just seems to be the primary motivation to create companies in the US. It is not the only reason and, for people that are not total greedy scum, it may not even be a goal besides financial viability. Profits a entirely optional and there strong evidence that running a company with a primary motivation of generating profits is detrimental for its survival. And society, incidentally. You have fallen for some thinly veiled religious fundamentalist propaganda.

Comment Re:They still want tolls? They'll get bombs, inste (Score -1) 210

Then you are probably a mealy-mouthed milktoast guy with no balls or real beliefs. People have a right to hate whoever they want and in this country (USA) they can express that freely. That's a VERY GOOD THING. When people can talk about why they are upset, it can lead to a resolution or greater understanding and more dialog. When you simply censor folks, you end up with a pressure cooker and with enough time and grievances it'll explode. For example, do the people in the EU experiencing problems with mass migration (rape, robberies, and gang violence increases, problems on mass transit, problems with housing, problems in schools) not have the right to express their dislike of the newcomers and their shitty culture? If you are in the UK, France, or Germany you sure as hell do not have any free speech and saying you dislike migrant policy or migrants will get you JAILED. You guys have censorship, you seem to love censorship, and you are censors.

Comment Re: US government (Score 0) 98

Basic INFOSEC says

Those "basics" are from 1980 and they are wrong. Do you have rainbow books still, too? We have a lot more IT history to look back on and when you *do* look back what you see is that less popular niche operating systems get fewer attacks (certainly fewer successful ones). There is a reason the French don't want to rip out their train routing system that runs on VMS and replace it with Windows. There is a reason why the USAF Nuclear Missilers don't want to upgrade launch systems to Android or something equally asinine. The facts are clear, less popular operating systems have fewer known flaws.

Comment Re:More from the "never happened" department (Score 1, Insightful) 253

My view is different where I take stance that invasion is to forceable take over land to claim ownership of it. Annex might be a better word for what I meant.

Find it hard to believe the "why" of an invasion is even relevant. I can see China invading the western seaboard of the US telling Americans hey no worries we do not "claim ownership". As if any living person in the US would give a flying fuck about such utterances.

The big point is Russia is trying to take ownership of Ukraine, like it has done in many places before. Where as nobody in recent history has tried to claim ownership of Russian. Going back to your post that being a nuclear power does not prevent invasion and then using Ukraine as example, it is a bad example.

In Ukraine's example the nuclear deterrent does not apply because if Russia nuke Ukraine it will likely have same result as surrender.

Front lines are too diffuse for tactical nukes to have much of a strategic effect. Unless Russia plans on lobbing strategic nukes at major population centers which sure as heck is not the "same result as surrender" even nukes are unlikely to result in surrender and may well backfire.

Read up on The Holodomor for what Russia did to Ukraine in the past if really don't understand why the Ukrainians are fighting so hard.

I don't see the relevance WRT invasion claims.

The Ukraine attacks of Russia are because Ukraine has nothing to lose, their choice is risk a fast death vs a likely slow death after surrender.

Being a nuclear power is an effective deterrent to invasion from countries that have something to lose in a counter attack i.e MAD.

"Nothing to lose" rhetoric is not credible. Relevant differentiation is lack of threat to state survival. In an alternate reality in which Oct 7th attacks sufficiently threatened the survival of Israel I have little doubt Gaza would be converted into a glass parking lot. There were voices in the government calling for it in this reality and of course daily voices calling for nuking Ukraine and the "west" from Russian state media.

Comment Re:Absolutely needless (Score 2) 83

It's not difficult - Iran must be balkanized if Israel is going to conquer the Middle East and expand its proper borders to "those promised by God". They will demand a regional empire beyond their borders as a "buffer zone".

The Eschatological Christian Zionists want them tp destroy the Al Aqsa Mosque and build the Third Temple so Jesus can come back. Much of the Senior Brass at DoD (or Department of War Crimes) believes in this.

Is it all absurd and crazy? Doesn't matter, it's what motivates the people with nukes.

That and Trump being blackmailed with Epstein Tapes. The news says it's specifically an audio tape of a phone call between those two.

This is what the people who want peace in the world are up against. We can't counter what we deny.

Comment Re:They checked the writing. Nobody checked the ch (Score 1) 82

> when your investigative toolkit is journalism

Exactly. The English Majors went where other investigators have previously gone and ruled out.

The stack of blockchain, Merkle Trees, halvings, etc. show a level of insight a quantum above Hashcash.

There's noting wrong with being "quite good" but "engineering genius" is something different.

Besides, Satoshi would never have stood for not funding mining with txn fees. The BTC chain is in danger of being unmineable very soon.

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