netstack
Texas is freedom land
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netstack
Texas is freedom land
8hr ago
I find that rather wholesome, even if it would be too unrealistic for a TV movie. “That which can be destroyed by the truth should be.”
netstack
Texas is freedom land
8hr ago
Most of the advice given in this thread seems like a pretty good way to accomplish that.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
8hr ago
You know, I’m not actually sure how to pronounce that.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
1d ago
Wait, are you serious? Vinay Gupta did something other than get into fights in the SSC comments?
netstack
Texas is freedom land
3d ago
Man. You keep posting the same shit, and it hasn’t started looking any more compelling.
It does kind of make me curious about one thing. What are your opinions on Islam?
netstack
Texas is freedom land
3d ago
Do you have to be deranged to make anti-Trump claims? Sometimes the guy makes bad choices.
There was a time when ordering a new war in the Middle East, and hold the exit strategy, was one of those obviously bad decisions. People joked about it. Nothing I’ve seen from this iteration has changed that calculus.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
3d ago
Can you see Trump signing on to a strategy like that? Looking ineffective/losing to encourage others to step up? Because I can’t. It’s completely against his brand.
I find it much more likely that he gambled on an in-and-out, five-day adventure. Blow up their assets, decapitate the leadership, get an easy peace deal. Foot in the door.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
3d ago
Well, I for one am still glad to see the writeup.
Generally speaking, these are people who one would think would be typically desiring a more expansive understanding of birthright citizenship,
This is a good reminder that politics, especially in the courts, don’t always fall on public-discourse partisan lines. Maybe that’s been less true in the Trump era?
Either way, looking at the Circuit Court’s decision, there’s a conflict between the appellants and the entire Samoan government, which has historically not wanted citizenship. Since that intermediate level is also democratically elected, it gets the allegiance. There’s some analogy to the Native American nations. In this sense, the Biden administration is choosing between the majority and minority positions within American Samoa. I’m not surprised that they declined to jump on that grenade.
I agree that it has no bearing on today’s question. There’s no intermediate layer of government to which illegal immigrants (or their children) owe allegiance. We’re back to Wong Kim Ark: jurisdiction or no?
netstack
Texas is freedom land
3d ago
299/320.
Worst category: aesthetic, 42/50.
Fewest attempted: literary, 30/30. I guess I was less willing to guess.
That was fun!
netstack
Texas is freedom land
3d ago
Ah, another victim of the urge for a warm-water port.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
3d ago
50/50 on whether it was gonna be that or the Groverhaus
netstack
Texas is freedom land
4d ago
Who is “we”, exactly?
I don’t think there’s a ton of overlap between the circles who most criticize American hegemony and the ones which compare everything to Roman history.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
4d ago
A perennial failure of all military thinking, mind you. Sad as it is, we are not uniquely unable to see the forest for the trees.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
5d ago
Motion tracking got much better, I think. That and the VR improvements might just be due to cheaper hardware related to phone tech? I’m not really sure.
Drones (consumer or otherwise…) advanced a lot in the same period. Everything from cheap commercial filming to light shows to endpoint package delivery. This is some combination of software + control hardware + insane battery developments, which are in turn related to the adoption of electric cars. Compare also the advances in prestige robotics, like BD’s Atlas and Spot.
Related, computer vision looks completely different than it did when I was in school. Even excluding AI!
Additive manufacturing has taken off. Prototyping, obviously, but also aviation and electronics fab. It’s become vastly more accessible to hobbyists, too.
Video calling exploded for obvious reasons. I think it had the opportunity to catch up with other advancements in streaming video. Speaking of which, social media accelerated a lot in the late 2010s. TikTok launched in 2016; all the American tech companies joined the party.
Oh right. Commercial spaceflight.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
6d ago
I don’t think mines block off everyone. They’re usually designed to anchor in place and wall off specific areas. You leave a few safe paths and either guard the secret (hard to do vs. the U.S.!) or concentrate your firepower in those spots.
Obviously, not everything works perfectly, which is why they’re feared and hated…
netstack
Texas is freedom land
6d ago
I really doubt that they think so, but I suppose I haven’t seen the sentiment firsthand.
I would posit that you could get the average college student to cheer for mass killings if President Trump spoke out against them. Countersignaling is cheap.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
6d ago
Was there ever a hope of arbitration? I figured China was laughing all the way to the bank.
I’ve heard no third-worldists gloating, for what it’s worth. Maybe that makes me lucky or oblivious. Most of the critics I’ve seen are in the doomsaying mode.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
6d ago
Didn’t know that about Sublight Drive. Awesome story. I would not describe it as conservative in any way, though.
I don’t think I’ve ever heard Amadan talk about schooling, so that can’t be right…
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