When that jackass John Bell Hood was retreating back into Alabama from his invasion of Tennessee there was much confusion because the best uniforms in his army were looted from Union dead. The only thing colored red was their bare footprints in the snow and ice.
This person appears to deserve recognition and respect. It is also a macabre PR stunt to defect criticism for layoffs during what's essentially an industry party of self congratulations.
Two things can be true.
I saw the Pulse tour in '94. ^Yes^ ^I^ ^do^ ^drink^ ^Metamucil^
The critical thing is not to have stockpiles, it's to retain an industrial knowledge base. Machine tools can be acquired and raw materials sourced quickly in an emergency. What you can't ramp up are the experience of the people running the factories.
So the trick is to pay for a steady supply of ammunition, even if you throw it away, just to keep a critical mass of factory workers trained.
Someone told me that I should choose a hopeful and optimistic title to help me cope with the election. I'm reading "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy instead.
Summons were Dark Souls' easy mode. In Elden Ring summons activate normal mode. Not an improvement.
Running a single-player melee build shouldn't be a challenge mode.
Idiocracy is a cute movie that I enjoy. I'm disturbed however by the popular notion that it's prophetic or a documentary considering it's central premise (that people are breeding wrong, and if unchecked society will collapse) is also the central premise of eugenics and a pillar of Nazi ideology.
People who think evolution works like it is portrayed in that movie have done infinitely more harm to society and scientific literacy than creationists.
While I've seen first hand how the powerful have attempted to manufacture consent around the CEO's assassination, their efforts are clumsy, uncoordinated, and haphazard. Like most conspiracy theories, this one fills all the gaps in plausibility and evidence with a "they" who are hyper competent with foresight bordering on omniscience.
you never had a rational basis for your new views
Nobody bases their political views rationally. I promise you, the foundations of your values are based on stuff you believe, but cannot demonstrate.
Statements like: "society should help the vulnerable", or "society should enable the strong" cannot be validated or rejected based on formal logic. Logical valuations like true and false are incoherent when talking about how things ought to be.
If a genie told me I could erase all land-mines or two-stroke leaf-blowers, I'd choose landmines, but the silence while I considered would be uncomfortably long.
Grade school grammar is not a proxy for intellect or education. I've never read an author who had half the respect for grammar that Chat GPT does.
This is unjust. But resources wasted on WY royalty will be diverted away from vulnerable people.