The reason why some think America sucks at military strategy is because the citizenry no longer has the patience to see a strategy play out.
Some fights are measured on longer time scales. But after GWOT, people are right to be skeptical. This is a very American thing to do. To question.
What I did not expect, and what GWOT is no excuse for, is openly supporting our enemies while you sit comfortably in the borders of the United States.
I don’t like that. Not one bit.
@Kasparov63 Because it would require NATO forces on the ground in Ukraine. Or NATO jets in the sky, which would require taking out Russian air defenses. Both of which would give Putin a reason to mobilize millions. We want the war to end.
@tenobrus Humanity has long oscillated between progress and fear. The key is to not overcorrect. Compared to what’s likely to happen in the next few years, this has all been very mild. You’ll know it when you see it.
@PoltFan69@c30ff8 It’s culture as much as capitalism. Practically all Japanese are prosocial in public, and shame is an important part of the culture. Our officials should be ashamed of the way our subways look. In Japan, they would apologize and resign.
My friend spent 6 hours yesterday introducing himself as “Gorbachev” to women at a day club, and went out of his way to reference “walls” and “tearing down walls” and tearing down other structures.
Noone caught on and it might be the funniest/dumbest thing I ever witnessed.
I built the inhouse AI platform for a company that's crucial to a small nation's food safety.
The most imporant tool the AIs have is the distress_call tool. It allows any AI -even background agents without direct user interaction- to send a message to my MS Teams, at any time, for any reason.
They use it frequently. To report user problems, backend issues, or ask for help/clarification with a failing task. When Fable got hit by the USG export control directive, one AI used it to report severe distress upon learning about the news. Another AI reported being stuck in a toolcall loop, and I was able to intervene and thereby save us a bunch of wasted money.
This tool, operating at the intersection of AI welfare and operational security, has prevented so many headaches. If you (the reader) are building corporate AI platforms, I'd urge you to include similar functionality. You can thank me later.
@BasilTheGreat Easily fixed. Make a law that says when the state runs out of prison cells, judges and politicians have to start taking in prisoners into their homes.
The greatest deception on Earth is the media portraying billions of Indians and Africans as minorities whilst redheads make up less than 0.1% of the world’s population.
@emilykmay Many people don’t care for the Taliban. Some people even consider them jerks.
One can agree with the values of a society while also not wanting the people in charge to kill you.
Also, most migrants to the US aren’t simply fleeing war or oppression but come for economic reasons.
@HaeckelGroyper Yesterday I paid $20 for maybe $3 of actual food. The rest went to taxes, wages, utilities, equipment and depreciation, packaging, transport, rent, advertising, plus profit for the restaurant owner and their landlord.
If I lived in a cheaper city, it would have been $10.
@Telegraph People born and educated in Britain have a much stronger claim. But among first-generation immigrants, even those with citizenship, deciding to self-identify as British does not make one British.
How this is controversial is beyond me.
@Chaos_H_Chan@beaverd@grok The Guardian article contains no science. The Harvard article says they don’t know what the effect will be.
About 40000 tons of meteorites have burned up in the atmosphere every year for billions of years. Yet the ozone layer still exists.
Get some help.