Ive played flight sim games for years and there is nothing quite like the pedantry of online people who fly desks. Why warthunder though? is it just a matter of a huge player base? Why would people with access to good information and a passion for accuracy play an arcade game?
Government Responsibility
This subtle language choice is revealing. Start talking egalitarian political reform and all of a sudden "the Government" and "the People" are two different things: As if they are made up of, by, and for two different kinds of people.
The vast majority of corporate profits in prison are extracted directly from inmates and their families. This compounds the economic disadvantage to the inmate's community on top of idling a potential earner.
In the US, the poor are a resource for capital to extract and there's no richer vein of poverty than what runs through the American legal system.
The previous owner of my home replaced the pressure regulator, but just installed it next to the old one. What happened was when certain taps were running together, a water-hammer developed between the pressure regulators and made an unbelievable roar and racket. It sounded like the house was trying to get up and run away.
You'll notice a significant overlap between the people who cheer this verdict and the 'all lives matter' crowd.
You're all liars because no one has mentioned the smell.
Use common sense! You think nerds changed their egg out on time?
Y'all know that Sherman was from Louisiana right?
Consider that the cost of energy is going to be the limiting factor on AI. When the VC dries up, who is going to pay the light bill?
I don't understand the nuance of Syria, but even I can tell that this is a rock in Putin's shoe and I'm here for it.
Give them places to live and teach them to grow food which will help pay for the whole thing.
The mentality that social programs are expected to justify their existence financially before their effectiveness can even be considered is one of the biggest reasons problems like homelessness are intractable.
One of the most common mistakes is assuming that political opponents are ignorant. If only they had the right education; consumed the right media; or had the correct experience, they’d surely see things properly. The error is believing that we arrived at our values through reason. Values like hierarchy or equity are adopted by a complex process of disposition, emotion, and experience. Reason may be a component of this process, it may be a value unto itself, but it cannot support values.
Even simple moral claims like “it’s wrong to steal” cannot be supported by logic. Give it a try and you’ll come up with arguments like: “stealing is wrong because it harms the victim”. But you’ve not solved the problem, just pushed it back a step because now you have to defend the claim “it’s wrong to harm”. You cannot use observations about how the world is to calculate how it ought to be. Justifying moral claims with other moral claims dooms you to circular reasoning and infinite regression.
For those of you clever enough to argue deontology or utilitarianism, I’ll point out that these systems are ethical. Only concerned with how one should behave; helpless to prove something just or wicked. The moral principles of deontology and utilitarianism are assumed, not proven. Both systems will endorse ridiculous, intolerable, and outrageous actions in particular circumstances.
Objective morality probably doesn’t exist and has never been justified.
Unfortunately the lesson from Gaddafi is never, under any circumstances, abandon your nuclear weapons program.