I mean… That still works. In Iraq the US Army routinely ran bait ambushes in areas AQ was known to operate. Oh look a single vehicle and they’re waving beer bottles around. That’s not a trap at all… Meanwhile there’s an entire infantry platoon traveling dark and silent just out of the light behind them.

HEMA is not combat. It’s tournament fighting. In combat you’ve got a thousand spearmen on either side looking to stick you with a sharp stick wherever they can.

The only chance he had, while still taking Poland, was to not meaningfully attack France, Netherlands, or Britain. Make it clear he was willing to settle with them. None of those countries were thrilled to be in a war, that would have been the end of it with a new map of Europe.

The West didn’t care about the Holocaust and felt more threatened by Russia. The war in the Pacific would have still happened of course. And there’s a fair chance the West would have teamed up with Hitler to fight Russia.

Anything beyond Poland was just a bridge too far.

Done, sorry it took this long.

If the Palestinian flag is illegal then all the more reason to fly it. They just want to live free and unoppressed.

He’s ten, flip him the bird and watch him tire himself out.

Isn’t also a game at defcon to spread a harmless package to as many devices as possible?

My thing is if Sony wants me to pay computer prices, it better act like a computer. If it doesn’t and the trend continues with PS6 then that’s the end of me buying PlayStations.

My favorite was when he accused the entire world of giving people to Harris so she could place them into the US as harmfully as possible.

They did actually pass that law.

I agree it’s hard to leave any ecosystem. But while Apple maintains you don’t need any cross connection; Android, Microsoft, and (to an extent) Linux all play nice with each other.

Oh. In that sense yeah. But most of us are also trapped on earth under that logic. I do think we need some more competition in the operating system market but I’m not sure who could pull it off. Even Microsoft bounced off of it. There is Graphene but it’s a tiny sliver of the market.

Except this really is well reported. It’s not obscure or contested in science. It’s not really what asking for sources is supposed to be for.

How are we trapped in Google? It’s a burden to move if I wanted to, but I can interface with everyone except apple just fine.

For me it was the pure ridiculousness of trying to pass documents back and forth with one person in the group using a Mac. Maybe Apple is better about universal document file types these days but that was it for me. I was never going to contribute to an ecosystem that created that level of disruption.

There are other comments on this chain hours older than mine with sources. But sure, I’ll take a jab at it just for you.

The pilot programs have created scores of stories like Everett’s about how a small amount of money led to massive change in a recipient’s life. And a growing body of research based on the experiments shows that guaranteed income works — that it pulls people out of poverty, improves health outcomes, and makes it easier for people to find jobs and take care of their children. If empirical evidence ruled the world, guaranteed income would be available to every poor person in America, and many of those people would no longer be poor.

-Washington Post

We’ve known for years, decades really.

There have been hundreds of UBI studies at this point. Most of them with headlines in major papers. They all say the same thing.

Actually yeah. Sequestering money from the economy is one of the worst possible things to do according to economics.

We actually got as far as running a trial of it back then. But we couldn’t keep going with it because… The divorce rate went up. And that was obviously super bad. Can’t have women escaping, uhh er, deciding they want things.

I’LL HAVE TO TRY THAT, THANK YOU.