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celticninja

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What is the point re the health service? We should be enriching people like musk instead of looking after the health of citizens? We spend money on loads of stuff just wondering why you think the NHS needs to be singled out as if it is using resources that could be used to find space exploration/launches.

Even proper capitalism would be anti whatever this current system is. It's a bastardization of capitalism which has been molded to allow those in power and with money to accumulate more of both.

They say socialism works in theory but not in practice, whereas capitalism should not work in theory but does in practice. Which is bullshit, because we have never tried either approach without a corrupt government layer that seems to enrich themselves over everyone else.

If the planet is sterile it will need to be terraformed, if it isnt it will likely kill us. Just moving people round this planet caused deaths by the introduction of diseases to new communities.

so we then need to sterilise the planet before terraforming it. There just doesnt seem to be a need for expansion to other planets. Short of our star going supernova everything else is cheaper to fix here.

This is like the saying blood is thicker than water, but the the full version:

The blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb.

Sometimes you relationship with your FOC is stronger and better, because it is not built on genetic predisposition but rather it is a bond that you intentionally create.

HK is dead, it's just China now. No independence and so no reason to be there than mainland China.

The banking and shipping and other service industries will slowly migrate to Singapore and KL, possibly Bangkok and HK will be a non-entity in a decade or two. I know many HK expats who moved to the UK who had seen it's decline in just the last 5 years.

That will be why the doc tells you it's too expensive, because over the counter is cheap. It's not that they can't afford it, but in the UK there is a standard prescription price. It's under £10 per prescription for any drug that prescribed, but it's a flat fee. So if they prescribe something that costs less than the prescription charge it makes no sense for the patient.

If you make bolts in a factory and some of those bolts are used for an aeroplane, some of which may be bombers it's probably negligible. If you, like the OP, are creating a drone with the specific effect of being a weapon, then I think I'm on safe ground saying there is no separation. You are actively making the world worse.

Defense is the sanitised version.

Let's say you program code for a hellfire heat tracking missile. Now sure you can tell yourself it's only going to be used by the good guys but really you know at some point your code is going to be responsible for someone innocent getting killed.

So there's probably that bit of people with morals and a conscience who have an issue with the 'defense' industry.

How exactly does your drone defend? Does it do it by being a good offense?

That may give you an idea of why you are getting judged.