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This. The services all want superstar athletes who also read gud. But they deny an application for dislocations, broken bones, concussions, misdiagnoses of asthma or ADD or situational depression. Can't have it both ways. So either you waive the things that aren't real, or you allow liars.

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submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Make military Keynesianism great again

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Excellent reminder from @alanallport.bsky.social: the US forced Britain's hand on self-determination & end of imperial trading preference as the terms for wartime aid to Britain. It wasn't just the US military was "tutored" to oppose Britain's empire, the US was unwilling to fight to preserve it.

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Putin is getting everything he wants - but Russia is also at Trump's mercy Me in @theipaper.com: "The Russians may also be at the mercy of the US President’s erratic behaviour and self-serving policies, but for now, they are enjoying living in Trumpworld." inews.co.uk/news/world/p...

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www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2... For what it's worth, this sort of backdoor abuse by the British government is both tyrannical, and a complete nightmare for security. I know information security professionals say this every time the government tries to backdoor cryptography.

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Regarding Ukraine, giving them weapons and other support is great. I’m glad we have The fact is though the West cannot give Ukraine what it needs most which is a much larger army without which they are unlikely to drive out the Russians A frozen conflict is the likeliest outcome long term 1/

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In considering strategy and geopolitics, capabilities and intent both matter Intentions can always change but not having a capability renders a bad intent less dangerous or a defense against aggression much more difficult. Physical things outweigh the speculative or ideological in a calculus

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@bradduplessis.bsky.social Trump and his techbrohs don't understand intel...and this shows it. They think that computers will find all the "data" they need...They don't understand that knowledge is in the connections and it takes humans to make sense out of raw data...

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Finally pulled this out of my book pile

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From Obama to Trump II this is the geopolitical dilemma for the US & NATO. The US needs to Deter China Rebuild the Navy & defense industry Provide NATO security Aid Ukraine Provide stability in ME The U.S. cannot afford all of this at once & the first two matter most to US national security 1/

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Just received this from MCU press

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I joined the Break it Down Show tonight to interview State Department historian James Graham Wilson about his new book America’s Cold Warrior, a biography of Paul Nitze youtube.com/live/LOV22JC...

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The Biden administration asked a federal appeals court to block a plea agreement for accused 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed that would spare him the risk of the death penalty.

submitted 73 days ago • 27 comments

More data supporting the argument that the worst decisions of the Biden Administration have all been the President's own. The downside of a cabinet of staffers rather than independent political actors.

submitted 76 days ago • 2 comments

Some initial thoughts about a change in mindset in how we think about #students. We are complex, unique blends of emotions, moods & intelligences, and our environment helps determine which ones are present in a given moment...similar to particles in #quantum science. www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZo7...

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If one truly learns and understands a topic, one should be able to think about and use it in multiple ways. #learningtool #education #physics #science #teaching #mastery

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I really want to post excerpts from this article, but that would probably be the whole article. I could not enjoy reading something more - fashion theory and Clausewitz.

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Just saying. news.usni.org/2022/03/24/c...

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The Wisconsin school shooter was in contact with a lunatic in California who was going to blow up a government building. He has now been arrested by the FBI It is likely that both were on some kind of accelerationist online forum which is where a lot of these mass killings gestate

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This smothering staff cocoon harmed Biden and is reminiscent of a dying Brezhnev Biden’s isolation makes Richard Nixon seem sociable www.wsj.com/politics/bid...

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Justice Department- men plead guilty to running a clandestine secret police “station” for China’s state security in New York Unclear if defendants are Chinese citizens, illegal migrants or Americans of Chinese descent www.justice.gov/opa/pr/new-y...

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This is how you do a “Chinese influence” story right!

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Heh

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Reportedly Israel has just invaded Syria Unconfirmed

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A lesson today If you are a stooge for Putin or Khameini, neither have the power to rescue you. They won’t bother to try Assad did not flee eastwards. Maybe Iran refused him even asylum

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Just saw a report on Twitter that Assad fled by plane which may have already crashed Very Lin Biao way to go

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Listening to the news about the CEO killer, I thought I’d provide a little profiling background as a counterpoint to the pundits. 1. Profiling is an analytical process meant to evaluate offender behavior in order to NARROW THE SUSPECT POOL in unsolved cases. (1/n)

submitted 106 days ago • 2 comments

Disney made a lot of bad Star Wars films and series and a few good ones. There was heavy woke agitprop in a lot of them but what really killed them was bad writing, incoherent storylines and poor acting

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CEO of United Health Care assassinated in Manhattan in mob style hit www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

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Breaking: Biden Labor Dept is releasing proposed rule abolishing practice of legally paying people with disabilities a lower "special" wage. Records we obtained show employers paying staff as little as 25¢ an hour to sort clothes, 5¢ to cut rags Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

submitted 109 days ago • 8 comments

Anything newsworthy happening in the world today?

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Tom Nichols is enduring the flanking fire that comes from holding principled positions The essence of a partisan ethic is “Its ok when we do it” so they are very unhappy with his take on Biden self dealing on pardoning his son

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It’s searching for Frodo

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The finance sector and neoliberals like to raise the issue of veterans benefits whenever a budget deficit implies that maybe Wall Street should pay a higher marginal rats than they received from the last tax cut

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Don't want to pay for veterans? Don't go to war. I remember a presentation where the the $1-2 trillion for fighting in Iraq would be dwarfed by the expenses of taking care of the surviving vets. Read @tanishafazal.bsky.social 's book on military medicine on this

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