not new for most palces.

Maybe it's just a US thing?

I doubt very much this was, or is, normal in most places. Perhaps in the US, which is about 4% of the world by population and about 6% by land area. We certainly read the whole novel in the 80s and 90s. No individual chapters, ever.

Vietnam required a draft. If the US tries to actually conquer and occuply Venezuela it would too. Canada or Mexico as well.

The US has gotten by with decapitation strikes, the same thing Russia tried to do to Ukraine, and only a couple of actual occupations supported by international allies and a lot of contractors. An actual war against an actual determined opponent, especially without allied support, would absolutely require conscription and even then would probably grind down into another Vietnam or Ukraine.

Of course they're going to do things of consequence. Most of the US's allies are trying to de-Americanize their military and other supply chains as quickly as they can. This will encourage that even more. The US's non-allies can now point to renewed American aggression and sphere of influence foreign relations to justify their own actions. Unaligned countries will likely start cozying up to China for protection. Several countries are likely to be pushed in the direction of developing nuclear weapons of their own.

Nobody is going to invade Texas over Venezuela. That doesn't mean there won't be consequences.

Precisely zero of those other buildings host the security council or has the facilities for that.

Seems like feature.

The first paragraph is sort of reasonable, but fraught with confounders. The second is just making the original error but substituting the author's pet cause and adding some religious weirdness. Fortunately the exact same argument deals with it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

The highest per capita meat consuming countries are non-muslim. The muslim countries are all mid tier except for a couple gulf states, including Qatar.

Sacrificing animals is big part of Islamic religious ritual.

Lol. It's a big part of Christian religious ritual too. That doesn't mean people do it very often.

Oxygen also causes cancer.

No, they're part of normal society that pushes their wishes and ideals as truths. Science is a weird niche branch of philosophy that says that's a bad way to generate knowledge.

That's hard enough for trained scientists to do never mind the masses. So the masses politicize papers with conclusions they don't like. Notice most of the arguments aren't about the data, they're something along the lines of "idiots won't understand this so it's dangerous to publish."

We were talking about why you can't send information faster than the speed of light. Nobody said communication via entangled particles was the same as classical communication. It requires classical communication. In the case you're talking about, that classical communication even has to come first.

I currently have six travel eSIMs in my phone

The article author transfers eSIMS between phones frequently, several times a month. Swapping eSIMS in one phone is easy, quick and much superior to the physical kind. Swapping between phones apparently runs into some problems if your carrier is braindead. That's what the article is complaining about.

You can buy a pay as you go eSIM for cash in many places too. It's the same thing. You can also buy a pay as you go eSIM without going to the store and showing your face to the employees and their security cameras.

Is it stupid? How do you tell the goons running the metal detectors to check for "behaviours or capabilities?" You CAN show them a picture of a raspberry pi and a flipper and tell them those aren't allowed. I expect if you show up with an orange pi or a flopper ziro you're also not going to be let in.

Is it? An eSIM is just the contents of a regular SIM running in a virtual machine. If your physical SIM dies you have to go get another. If you eSIM dies somehow you have to get someone to give you another. The difference is that they can e-mail you the new eSIM.

Not many carriers will mail you a SIM card, and even if they did you'd have to somehow acquire a mailbox or address anonymously. Lots of them will e-mail you an eSIM to your shadycharacter1337@gmail.com e-mail though.

Most of the world has phones with a SIM slot and support for eSIMs. IIRC Apple (and now Google) removed the SIM from their phones because most Americans don't swap SIMs much.

The guy who wrote the article is a niche user who swaps his (e)SIM between several phones fairly frequently, probably sitting at his desk. That's definitely a use case where a physical SIM is superior. For pretty much everything else an eSIM is better.

There is no reasonable way for an ALU to come into being in the way that they're trained. None.

You could probably arrange something like that if you trained it with that in mind.

Sigh.