If hammers were only useful for hurting people, yes, yes I would.

All technologies have military and civilian use. Just because you can’t think of a civilian application for precision gyroscope doesn’t mean others can’t. Precision surveying immediately comes to mind as a potential application, plus civilian inertial navigation devices.

And no, there is not some magical level of precision that only the military has use for. If something has military applications, it also has civilian ones. Hell, there are potential peaceful applications of nuclear bombs. If those can be a dual-use technology, anything can be.

Yeah, let’s voluntarily lower the quality of all of our lives simply to give some minute advantage in the geopolitical chess game.

It’s the only way to promise justice that cannot later be revoked by a second Trump. This is restitution. And it needs to be delivered in a durable form.

I want to see potential 2028 Democratic candidates NOW announce what they will do to right the wrongs of the current administration. For example, if I were running, I would publicly state:

“To all those illegally removed while going through the lawful immigration or asylum process, I tell you, you will receive justice. I promise to use executive authority to create a fast track to immigration and citizenship for anyone unjustly removed from the country by Trump. Any immigrant denied their due process by the Trump administration will receive full US citizenship by the end of my first term. Let President Trump know that denying asylum seekers their day in court will do him no good in the end. Asylum claimants normally have a low chance of success. But for those whose rights were violated? I will guarantee them success. I will guarantee not only asylum status, but full citizenship, to any asylum seeker that Trump has violated in our names!”

Not like this…

Depends. Have you ever had a passport in your dead name? That is the critical question. If so, then they can see it in your records when you go for a passport renewal. And if so, you’ll receive a passport back under your birth sex.

As far as the effects of having an incorrect passport gender marker? It can get you in a lot of trouble. I’m a trans gal myself. There’s no easy way for me to even prove that I am trans. I could strip naked in front of someone and it wouldn’t be obvious. Yet under these rules, when I update my passport, I’ll end up with an M marker. This will make it nearly impossible for to travel internationally.

This can cause big issues when crossing a border. It can mean you’re pulled aside for extra scrutiny. It can get you outright turned away from countries hostile to lgbt people. It can make border agents suspect your entirely legitimate document is fake. Hell, the same conservatives who would give me such a document would argue I’m committing some act of fraud for dressing and looking a way that doesn’t match my documents.

Just imagine what trouble you might encounter if any basic info on your ID was clearly wrong. Imagine your passport says your height is a foot different from your actual height. Can you not see how that would obviously cause you problems when trying to cross a border?

Eh, I don’t think they give a shit about the natives to be honest.

Jews were only 1% of the pre-Nazi German population. Trans people are only 1% of the US population.

Yup. The Zoomer conservatives won’t reform their ethics. They’ll just replace the teachers of poor black kids with AI chat bots.

I think a simpler way of pointing this out is that the median US household income is $80k. A $100k household income is only 25% higher than average. It’s a pretty normal income. We just have “a six figure salary” as part of our cultural memory as some huge amount.

You’re confusing being a good politician with being a good leader or representative. Being a politician is all about winning elections. The man can’t lead the country worth a shit, but he can get elected.

Trump is a brilliant politicaian. I hate the ground the man walks on, but don’t discount his political skills. He has stronger political instincts than almost every politician alive in America today. He can be evil while also being a great politician. You see his politics and conclude he doesn’t know what he’s doing. But you are simply not his target audience.

I used to put it on my resume and the kind of offers I would get…where VERY bad. Or had some huge red flags.

In what way, someone looking for people to hack old banking systems?

This is whose data they’re using. The IEA has made notoriously bad predictions of renewable deployment. They’re a body heavily entrenched in the fossil fuel and nuclear industries. This is why the progress reported in the original article isn’t so. We’re measuring against the projections of people opposed to renewables.

We should legalize period-accurate piracy on the high seas. You can legally loot and pillage your way across the ocean…as long as you’re willing to do so using entirely 18th century tools and equipment. I just want to see a bunch of maniacs in a tiny wooden sail boat try and capture a giant modern cargo container ship.

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Because in the US, you only exist in a democracy if you are in the top 10% of the income distribution. This has actually been proven empirically. The opinions and preferences of the bottom 90% of the population has zero influence on what legislation Congress eventually passes.

This is why Democrat’s plan to run on defending democracy or simply not being Trump has failed so hard. Only 10% of the country has ever actually lived in a democracy. You cannot ask people to defend a democracy that they themselves are not members of.

If you vote to enable fascism, you are yourself a fascist, regardless of what color arm band you choose to wear.

And this is why we need to shout down and muppet that blindly parrots “vote blue no matter who.” These folks rely on the flawed assumption that electing Democrats is the fastest way to fight authoritarianism. But if the party is actually just a scam? If it’s just controlled opposition? You have no great options at that point. At that point your only option is to ignore the fake opposition and push for a new left wing party, even if it takes you 20 years to implement. Voting for a captured opposition party is little more than an act of masturbation.

All these expenses need to be kept in context. Sure, they’re on net paying $25 for your $15 of wage, but in turn they’re earning $40, $50, $100, or $200 off of your labor depending on just what kind of industry you’re in.