Heck, there hasn’t been peace in the Middle East since the Bronze Age Collapse.

Fuck no this administration won’t help. The best hope Americans had of lowering prices was Lina Kahn.

the border crisis stuff

What “border crisis stuff”? There are no massive groups of people crossing the border illegally, all of the talk about that is GOP propaganda.

The majority of illegal immigrants in the US enter the country legally and then overstay their visas.

• a few git repos (pushed and backup in the important stuff) with all docker compose, keys and such (the 5%)

Um, maybe I’m misunderstanding, but you’re storing keys in git repositories which are where…?

And remember, if you haven’t tested your backups then you don’t have backups!

It’s just sexism. There’s nothing complicated to understand here about Trump being more appealing to Latino voters because of policy or speeches or whatever. There’s only one reason they voted for Trump over Harris, and everything else is prevarication & rationalization.

I highly recommend Teaching Tech’s 3D Printer Calibration site. Some of it will not apply to your SV08 and some of it you will have to adjust to work with your printer, but it is a great overall step-by-step process with tools to generate various test models for tuning specific aspects of print quality.

The U.S. methods of choice have been wars, regime-change operations and unilateral coercive measures (economic sanctions).

Because of course, China and Russia would never

Rupert Murdoch and Sinclair Media made this bed.

kompromat, comrade

Correct:

The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations, except as to the Places of chusing Senators.

US Constitution, Article 1, Section 4

Technically there’s no requirement that any of the citizens of a state be allowed to vote in their state’s elections.

Deviant Ollam - Lawyer. Passport. Locksmith. Gun. (A Talk About Risk & Preparedness)

Also Dont Talk to the Police

And as always, know what day it is.

Someday soon I’m sure we’ll get that paperless office.

Oh definitely, they can’t all be deployed at once - but the ability to rotate them out means a sustained presence that nobody else can achieve. And the point is really more about the organization structure that supports those carriers and their accompanying battle groups - the US can control any part of the ocean anywhere in the world, for as long as they want. That kind of force projection is hard to compete with.

Well yes, from China’s perspective, but for the same reasons the rest of the world should be very concerned about Taiwan’s well-being.

Yes, although having the ship is only part of it. What the diagram can’t really show is that the US also has a global logistics system which supplies the carriers and their accompanying battle groups when they deploy to other side of the planet. That system has been decades in the making, it’s not something you can just buy, it requires a crazy amount of planning and organization.

I doubt the US could deploy every carrier effectively, but it can certainly put multiple battle groups at sea simultaneously and keep them there for a long time.

I’d love to find a more up-to-date version, if you know of one.

I’m sure it’s a bit out of date.

Even so, the reality is that the US can afford to staff, deploy, and supply, multiple carrier battle groups far away from home. Nobody else can. The US Navy has a credible chance of taking on the entire rest of the world’s navies combined.

The problem being that Taiwan is a critical part of the entire global economy. TSMC fabricates ~50% of all semiconductor products in the world, but critically >90% of all fabrication at 5nm or lower (basically everything with a fabrication process less than a decade old). They are the leading edge. If you want to make a modern CPU, TSMC is your foundry.

By threatening Taiwan, China is holding a gun to the head of the entire world. Loss of TSMC’s fabrication would basically shut down the global computer industry.

Yes, well, at the end of WWII all of the major economic powers in the world were more interested in negotiating than fighting. Nobody wanted to go to war again, at least not for awhile.

Eight decades later, and all those lessons have been forgotten. Self-interested and shortsighted leaders have risen to the tops of many nations, and nationalistic rhetoric is gaining popularity again.

The problem isn’t really with the the UN as an organization, but with the participants who are no longer acting in good faith, and no longer see large-scale war as something to be avoided at any cost.

I wasn’t trying to say that the UN had the power to prevent WWIII, only that it was created with the intent to do so. The UN as an organization never really had any teeth of its own. It’s a forum for discussion between nations - not going to war can really only happen if the nations involved make that the priority above their own interests.

With North Korea now committing troops to the conflict in Ukraine, the current situation seems very familiar, a prelude that will eventually lead to larger economic powers being drawn into the conflict directly. It feels like we’re all on a well-trod historical path, and I don’t know how we get through it without learning those lessons the hard way, again.

I fucking hope I’m wrong.

The purpose of the UN was to prevent World War III. That’s all.

It was never intended to be a global government, it was never intended to prevent all conflict, it was never intended to be a perfect organization.

Expecting the UN to exist without corruption, or to effectively prevent all wrongs across the world, is to severely misunderstand what the intended goal is or what any collective group of humans is even capable of.