Man, I thought they had a containment Instance.

Here’s a guy named Steve, eating and reviewing one of these humanitarian rations, in case anyone was curious:

https://youtu.be/iKfWQ3Sij68

And with really good sound quality too, since they’re also ASMR vids.

How does the media in a capitalist country work…?

There’s a shitload of selection bias at play there. When we do prepare for something and actually successfully prevent it, your brain won’t remember it for you, unless you try really hard.

So, it’s almost impossible to just figure out how well we prepare, using some kind of sniff test. Our human brains just royally suck at that specific kind of analysis.

By way of example, Biden’s recent investment into port security. If a problem never occurs now, are you going to give him a point for that, or just never really consider it again?

This is partly why the scientific method needs to be so strict, slow and rigorous to get anywhere.

I mean, you could just send a drone, that’s probably cheaper and better for the environment. But I guess it’s something interesting for a pilot to do. Gotta stay sharp.

Yea, there is. We called it WW2.

Don’t start shit and there won’t be shit. That part is unbiased.

“no rush” to address the issue

Brave Ukrainians, that didn’t have to, are dying.

I didn’t intend any offense, but validating individual personal experiences is not what policy is for. It’s a statistical thing. Those fields of study are vastly more valuable than any anecdotes, which can be subject to a lot of different potential problems.

Particularly on the internet, which is absolutely full of people saying shit that is not actually true, and pretending to be things they are not.

It’s not personal, it’s very coldly impersonal. On purpose. I would discount an individual experience regardless of who the person was, or what they said.

Their primary role is whatever the local governance makes it. There is no universal set of regulations governing local police. Though we might need some.

Additionally, what one person witnesses and attests to is not a sound basis for making policy decisions.

All that said, I do agree that leftist protestors frequently get treated more harshly than right-wing protestors, and that is a problem we need to address.

Fair point.

It’s not their job, our constitution protects nazi protestors the same way it protects climate protestors. The right to assembly.

Confronting these things is our job, as citizens. Not the police’s job. If they weren’t causing any trouble, then the police are supposed to let them be, for better or for worse.

Yes, and there was a point of nuance I missed as well. I was not attempting to disparage the modern military though, as much as point out the us-vs-them mentality and pursuit of destruction of the enemy as a high priority.

Everyone needs training for their job. If they do not follow their training, they are probably not doing a good job.

Assuming those officers are following their training, we need to change officer training. That behavior is more military than police.

Yeah, when you look at how the build-out of radar capabilities and fighter aircraft pitched in a couple years later you start to see things in a different light.

I think he was playing both sides somewhat, he seemed to genuinely want peace-in-our-time and naively think it was possible, based on his public messaging anyway. But he also allowed a very expensive militarization just in case. A prudent politician, not putting all his eggs in any one basket.

Then when the war began and it became clear he could not keep his country unified after bungling Norway, he very courageously took full responsibility for his soft direction and resigned, taking that whole shame onto his own shoulders, and personally paved the way for a more hard-nosed guy and brilliant public speaker to come in clean and run the actual war. And, most importantly, it all worked. The Battle of Britain was a victory. Britain withstood, protected by the navy and airforce that he funded, where so many others were defeated.

He’s a very conflicted figure, but I think he does deserve credit where it’s due.

For the record, while Chamberlain was pursuing appeasement, he was also very rapidly building up his nations warfighting capability. This tends to get glossed-over in secondary school history studies.

I have not seen this argument you claim. If a liberal wants to own a gun, they can own a gun. Genuine leftists, particularly of the seize-the-means-of-production sort, are also not exactly unfamiliar with violence.

Perhaps you are hanging out with … trolls?

Or perhaps actually calling for violence, which would get your comments removed, on here at least?

It did not have 105 when I made that comment. lol

If you don’t want to parent your own son, there is someone out there willing to do it for you. They will not do a good job.

We had a bridge not too far away for our “real” fights. Strangely, the formality kept things more civil.

Though there was one time a kid got literally thrown over the side of it. Water underneath so he was fine, but still was kinda crazy.