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There’s also lead time issues with a 18 month window. Some machines and equipment can wind up taking more than a year to get made and delivered.
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You don't need staffs and process to manage complex problems if you don't believe any problems are particularly complex.
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Personally, I can’t decide if the program manager who pitched and sold the idea needs to be fired or promoted.
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*BrOSINT
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*The TikToks
Everything internet related is always so much funnier when you make it a proper noun and make it plural. Also does a good job reminding everyone of the average internet user’s competence with whatever the thing is.
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*If you’re from SV…
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This is art
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I fucking hate these people like you wouldn’t believe man.
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There’s a self selecting zealotry reinforcement mechanism with converts imo. It’s one thing to be born into and maintain a belief system, and it’s another to re-evaluate that system as an adult, reject it, and search for a new one.
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that the cia wrote and promoted "winds of change" as a psyop to win the cold war is 100 percent my favorite conspiracy theory
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Bespoke: sending bips, glits, and pips to Kazakhstan.
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* -Major Potato Esq (space force)
Barracks Law School of Hard Knocks
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Violations of the 3rd Amendment?
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Hell yeah, it’s only like a decade and a half late!! Just in time for the near peer fight!!
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<mokey’s paw curls>
And that’s how the Trump administration took The Hague invasion act from a theoretical playbook to a material reality, and the North Atlantic alliance has never been the same since…
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I think that’s right. I’ve kind of mentally been categorizing them as more specialized fires for a while now, good enough at their specific job, but unwieldy outside of it.
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It’s ok to not be doing well, don’t penalize yourself for being a human.
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Honestly, this seems like it’d have a much higher payout rate when your hypothetical mugging victim preemptively proves to you that they have hires-gig-private-security money already, a lot better payout than random chance I would think.
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One of my continual gripes with people who refuse to grapple with how bad that outcome would be is they don’t know enough about the outside dynamics and their impacts on the Syrian Civil War to understand how much those same dynamics would apply here.
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the bad things human societies need to most worry about are ultimately abstractions
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/5 Any law firm that hires any of these craven and un-American people making these arguments — looking at you, Jones Day — should be viewed like a day-care center that hires a convicted child molester his first day out of prison.
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🧀?
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The fact that everyone just allowed “realists” to claim the title “realism” has been so incredibly detrimental to the foreign policy of the United States it is objectively one of the funniest and saddest quirks of the English language. Low key best branding of all time.
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Think about it: The Chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee was the bought-and-paid-for agent of the Egyptian government. A German Chancellor was almost certainly already in Putin's pocket when he was still head of the most powerful national government in Europe.
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I do not think anyone directly changed their vote because of Afghanistan. I have been convinced by the big graph that shows Biden’s approval ratings and troop withdrawal that it helped the media engineer the Vibecession.
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The alternative history where after the war ends the public learns we spent 1/3 of the defense budget developing a bomb we ultimately didn’t use when the opportunity arose is another wrinkle I seldom see discussed in this debate. Default ‘decision’ was always to use, point of the project.
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It’s all fun and cool until someone pours a drink out for their home at a tech expo.
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Recently learned there are non-conductive liquid engineering fluids they use to pressure wash server racks and stuff in data centers and the video showing it damn near made my brain explode.