@mnolangray@humantransit Lots of states maintain conventional forces despite the fact that they border a much larger state that could paper them over *if they decided to throw their full weight against them*
Maintaining nearly nothing only drives that incentive upwards. Also this HoI4.
@mnolangray@humantransit They spend less than a percent of GDP on military spending, and given their shared duties for disaster relief and for contesting cartel warlordism I don't see it as some major spending boondoggle
@mnolangray@humantransit Okay so if you share a land border with the *United States* then being a belligerent nuclear break out state is ridiculously stupid.
Mexico inherited an armed 19th century nation-state after the revolution and put in constitutional provisions that give it tasks other than war
@hecubian_devil I receive it, and I'll be honest it feels a bit crazy at times, but it's a rich country and if you want a volunteer service it's the kind of thing the nation has to offer in order to keep those volunteers coming.
@hecubian_devil It's an absurdly generous program where the military basically repays you for a series of measurable declines in your bodily capacity that can be credibly traced to the rigors brought about by your military service.
@agraybee Because that's not what he actually means. What he actually means is "I resent my peers that achieved escape velocity, who only did so because they aren't genuine like me and the other downwardly mobile failsons."
(Me): so, we create this "virtual memory" to trick processes into thinking they have a contiguous address layout
(Medieval peasant): Would not thy abstraction swell the tally of mem'ry lookups?
(Me): well, yes. to deal with that we created the "translation lookaside buffer"
@rakishromantic this is not about oral, he's been posting this for a while. these are just two that the broken search could retrieve me but there's more