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That argument is rolled out every time the Republicans want to cut anything, but then they don't actually balance the books. Trump is responsible for 25% of the national debt and the DOGE cuts did not move the needle at all.
If the US military was waging a true all out war, Iran would be piles of rubble and glass
Then the Gulf oil infrastructure would be gone in retaliation and the impacts to the global economy would be severe. Trump's popularity and legacy would be utterly destroyed.
Nukes aren't relevant unless Russia uses nukes or tries to take Paris or London. No one is going to nuke Russia over a Polish-Russian border town, and maybe not even over Warsaw falling. Until Poland and the Baltics get their own nukes, of course.
What did the nearby datacentre do that made you move?
Consumer protections aren't as fundamental and straightforward in the USA compared to most of the developed world.
Targeting civilians for hostage taking and otherwise is terrorism. Hamas is a terrorist organisation. Sure, they are freedom fighters, but they are terrorists.
"If we do nothing about this obvious problem for the next decade it will be catastrophic."
Ok
I think with the breakdown in the current talks the traders are beginning to accept that neither side can capitulate on their core demands, and the war and shortage of hydrocarbons will continue past the crunch point.
The National Crime Agency (NCA) said the rise of young hackers in the UK as one of the biggest threats to the nation's cyber security.
Pity we can't do the same as the Russians and just point them at geopolitical adversaries. Russian viruses have been known to uninstall themselves if they detect Russian language configured on the device.
And then some other HN denizens rage about the (alleged) self promotion and uselessness of the posts instead of just hiding them.
If there is any nation on earth that is capable of cheaply producing large quantities of simple weapons of war it is the Russians. The issue is not a lack of cheap bullets.
Trump 'aggressively renegotiating' existing deals, like this completed bridge, or the USMCA, is not good for the confidence of future counter-parties to US agreements.
How many billions have you spent propping up useless industries in the years before the war though? What capacities could have been built with those billions otherwise?
Attacking random datacentres is not going to even fractionally help with the issue of low quality AI use.
It's literally a building that turns electricity into reasonably intelligent text and we're still here talking about environmental impacts. Is this where we're at with NIMBYism in the West now? Will there ever be popular support to build industrial production any more?
The Nazis were anti tobacco. If you're not pro tobacco, you should probably ask yourself why you have the same stance as the Nazis.
Wouldn't the whole point of Google propping up competition browsers to avoid antitrust be completely undermined if Google was influencing the development of said browsers?
It seems to stop when the argument can't be used to attack Western colonialism.
Not really, no. Per-capita Switzerland is rich, well fortified, and isn't being conquered to punish it for attempting to join a trade bloc. And free countries don't really like their neighbours being conquered by aggressive imperialist authoritarian states.
I'm interested in the criteria that you judge a country of not deserving of aid, especially since it is in the interests of the donor countries that Ukraine not be conquered.
"But waste, fraud and abuse exists, and is bad, and DOGE was there to remove it, so DOGE was good. The fact that institutions exist to do this already is irrelevant. That the world's richest man and an unvetted team of 20-somethings with no security clearances got super admin level access to government databases is irrelevant. That the effort ended with a tiny fraction of the initially claimed savings, AIDS medication cut off, and the leader of the effort publically accusing the President of, at best, close association with a child sex trafficker, is irrelevant. You have TDS." - MAGA
Anthropic train it to 'reason morally' based on the constitution's principals.
How do you know that the problem isn't that the access fee hasn't been set high enough to meaningfully reduce demand?
(Also to the community, please don't flag normal comments if you don't like them. Downvote is fine, but rageflagging just prevents other people from having potentially productive conversations)
Well Iran hasn't got what it wanted. Trump hasn't declared victory, taken his toys and gone home. Then Iran gets everything it wanted.
What did they get out of it? Iran's old conventional military capabilities being blown up? Some leaders killed? A fraction of the missiles and drones being suppressed?
Sulfuric acid, hydrogen peroxide, sodium carbonate. Not catalysts but reagents. Most currently come from fossil fuel feedstock but that isn't essential.
Joining the EU doesn't usually involve the mass murder and/or incarceration of a whole class of people. Joining the EU brings obvious prosperity while the Soviet Union locks you in to a government structure doomed to economic failure.
Yeah there was something with Cuba. America attempted the same thing in Cuba as the 2014 Ukraine rebellion Russia fomented and equipped, but instead of failing in 8 years, it utterly failed immediately and the Americans didn't decide to double down on their failure and actually invade like Russia has. America then allowed Cuba to be a Soviet ally, for everything except for forward deployed nuclear weapons which it then removed from Turkey.
Do you have a particular amount of corruption in mind before Ukraine is disqualified from receiving Western aid, or are you 'just asking questions'?
Have the efforts of the Ukrainian anti corruption agencies and the defence of them by the Ukrainian public made any impression on you?
That's not the impression I get at all. A bit of extremely understandable rage at the Trump admin's ignorance and arrogance, but if you CTRL-F for "Chesterton's fence" you'll get that acknowledgement you're looking for.
To me this whole thread reads people trying to apologise for DOGE, especially by making appeals like 'government has corruption and waste and that is bad so DOGE was good'.
I don't think that's a fair assessment of Western perspectives.
If the USA was 6 years into a very messy conquest of Mexico because Mexico wanted to join a trade bloc with China, the West would be very disapproving of American actions.
Similarly the Iraq war is unpopular to Western citizens. Even at the time the British weren't very into it, and the Germans and French outright refused to participate.