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The VAST majority of the budget goes to the contractors and arms manufacturers. The actual money that gets used to take care of the troops is (at a guess based on current world events) vanishingly small.

use Diego Garcia, farther from the Gulf, as an emergency logistics node

I’m legitimately surprised that Trump hasn’t gotten around to ordering the British to rename that via a long nonsensical Truth Social rant.

I’m all for a good conspiracy theory, but I can practically guarantee you that no one is inspecting every singe nut looking for empty shells to bulk up the bag.

Other than a certain amount of each batch that is kept aside for quality control testing, the bags are filled by machines on a conveyor belt. I doubt a human even looks at them until they’re at the final stage and ready for the last quality control test.

It’s completely random how many empties there will be in a bag. OP was just unlucky this time.

Personally I’ll never go Vegan simply out of spite because no matter what is being discussed there’s ALWAYS some asshole inserting veganism into the topic.

Veganism might be great for the environment, but as long as you(they) continue to act worse than especially obnoxious Jehovah’s Witnesses, veganism can go fuck itself.

If I devoured one cow every time some vegan asshole spoke up in a thread that was on a completely different topic, cows would be extinct.

Fun fact: The L and the R don’t actually mean “Large” and “regular”. they stand for “Lotta Blood” and “REALLY lotta blood”. So it’s reversed. Gotta be careful about that.

Countdown to the DOJ declaring his words a “legitimate islamic terrorist threat” in 3 – 2 – 1–

Sure. They could face a lot of repercussions for a lot of different bullshit.

But will they? No, of course not. Don’t be silly.

“I had to wait until he moved on you to zero him.”

Okay, hold up. I forgot that line. And I know that this is not the point of the post. But What the Actual Fuck, Reese. You’re telling me that Arnold Shwartzenegar moving like a robot is “hard to spot”.

You couldn’t make an educated guess and say, “hey…that big motherfucker dressed in all leather with no expression on his face seems to be always around when I’m keeping an eye on this Conner chick.”

TITL (Today I Tangentially Learned) - Kyle Reese was absolutely dog shit at his ONE JOB.

No one. It’s a giant “plausible deniability” cluster-fuck.

It’s ‘blaming the dog for farting’ writ large and in the service of billionaires.

We should popularize using the guillotine as a symbol of the common man

Fixed that for you.

Well I guess it’s true what they say. You really can’t go home again.

Nothing broke. It’s working exactly as intended.

There have always been two distinct economies.

• There is their economy (meaning the billionaires economy of venture capital, real estate investment firms, speculative markets, etc…) It’s a market that exists on paper only. Theoretical billionaires with assets instead of bank accounts, capital instead of paycheques. Money isn’t a real concept in that economy, it’s simply a measure of profit and loss. It’s just a score keeping device and something used to leverage power.

• Then there is our economy. (meaning the rest of us, who get a paycheque, spend that paycheque, etc…) Maybe we’d be able to put something aside for retirement or college for the kids. . Money itself has a real, tangible impact in our lives. It’s not theoretical.

Maybe we have enough to play in the paddling pool of the speculation market, telling ourselves that “we’re shareholders!” like our 10 shares means squat against the 10,000 shares owned by the investment firms and LLCs run by the billionaires. Employers like to do things like offering you stock options, selling it as “you’ll be an owner and have a say in the company”. Yeah…no…you’ll have a piece of paper and a sense of self-importance because you “dabble in stocks”.

The idea being that if we invest hard enough, and risk enough, we’ll make enough to jump us from one economy into the other. But we won’t. That’s the lie they tell to keep us mollified.

Because the truth is that their economy, only works at the expense of our economy. Profit in their economy, only comes from loss in ours. A corporation can’t make more profit without taking it from somewhere. And that somewhere invariably is us; our health benefits, our cost of living, the quality of the products that we use, our lack of raises, etc…

So you’re telling me that Illegal immigrants from America are crossing the border to work in Greenland without the proper visas?

How interesting.

I moved to a safety razor a few years back and love it. Took some getting used to when using it on my head shave, but once you get the hang of keeping it at that 30 degree angle, it takes no pressure at all and I (almost never) nick myself.

Zuck and the rest of the 5-meow-meow-bean possee is just hoping to distract us long enough with bullshit to get their private compounds ready before all of us 1-meow-meow-beans drag them from their homes and hang them upside down in city squares.

Spot on. Very well said.

And that’s precisely the over-arching problem in the modern world.

Civic duty, not just for Americans, but for everyone is that if they see an interaction happening with any sort of law enforcement, stop…turn on your phone’s video camera, and record it. The more citizens record every…single…interaction with authority, the harder it is for them to keep the story hidden.

I get zero fulfillment from manually solving merge conflicts, setting up someone’s fragile idea of a config, or other tedious stuff like that

For sure. And it’s tedious crap like that where A.I can have a limited scope of usefullness. I WANT A.I. to handle all the boring shit so that I can get on with doing the creative side of programming. But CEO’s want it exactly the other way around. Rather than A.I. being your assistant, you become its assistant, it’s proof reader.

I will happily plug a snippet of code into an AI if it’s not working and I need a second set of eyes on it to see where I missed a goddamned colon. But that’s as far as it ever should go. I don’t want it writing code for me, but it can make a pretty good proof-reader so that I can solve an issue and get on with writing faster.