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One thing I cannot for the life of me understand is the people who travel about ten feet behind the car in front of them at speeds of up to 60 to 70+ mph (!!!). Like what do they think is going to happen if that person up front has to slam on the brakes? Regarding cell phone usage, here in New...

I'd think no way in hell could Putin let Prighozin's betrayal stand and still be perceived as strong, either by the Russian people and/or those maybe inkling to off him.

Just my opinion, but IMO people are too spoiled by modern times with our shorter (conventional) wars. If it isn't over in six months, they're wanting to throw in the towel. We are a year and a half in. Ukraine started with a very limited military, while Russia started with a much bigger one...

I wouldn't trust much of anything Colonel MacGregor says. He has been saying since the start of the war that Ukraine was going to fold. And it keeps not folding and so he keeps moving the goalposts. When you keep being as consistently wrong as he is, it rather largely dings your credibility when...

I've read that up until the 1980s, the U.S. subsidized its shipbuilding industry, which other nations also do theirs, but then we decided to stop, which made it much more difficult for ours to compete, so we lost a lot of it.

Now the aliens are screwing with us: Question Mark in Deep Space

Yes I know, but because as ea6bflyr points out, it is an improper word that is nonetheless still a word due to its extremely common usage, I wasn't sure if nittany03 was using it in jest or just didn't realize. It is no big deal of course.

Weeeeellllll, I mean yes it is a word in that sense, but still considered an improper one as your link states.

Not sure if this is on purpose or not on your part,, but just in case, irregardless isn't actually a word.

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It wouldn't be either of those things to one side.

That would be pro-choice legislation (aka pro-abortion to the pro-life side) and as such would be seen as a non-starter by one side.

Make sure you have the proper KPIs to achieve your OKRs.

The grammar fail that gets me is when people say "could of" and "should of."

Just make sure if you guys see anything, you film it using a decent quality camera. I am tired of all the footage in like 144p:mad:

Nature evolved intelligence by processes not yet fully understood. Humans are trying to centrally engineer it, which is different. Not saying you are wrong as I am not familiar with the experts, but I don't know how they can conclude we don't need to understand general intelligence as humans...

Many Wal-Martians do seem like they're from another planet.

Wouldn't we need to understand how human intelligence works in order to create an artificial variant of it? A self-improving algorithm won't be able to act as a general intelligence, like you'd find in a human, dolphin, chicken, wolf, cat, etc... We are not dealing with a very high-level...

The problem with trying to get AI to simulate human intelligence is that we don't really know how human intelligence functions. We know the general areas of the brain responsible for this and that and the numbers of neurons generally in the brain, but we don't know much about just how those...

Sure such lifeforms could exist, but IMO the evidence that they are visiting Earth is very slim.

What if...??

UAP and UFOs = ? IMO makes very little sense because if it really was aliens, too much of what they are doing doesn't make any sense.

The U.S. Army has an unofficial popular phrase: Hurry up and wait.

Maybe we should "abort" this debate....?

The issue though is she could be essentially murdering what is an unborn child. The pro-choice crowd seeks to twist itself into pretzels to avoid admitting this, wanting to act as if the unborn is just a blob of tissue until the moment of birth (very ironically, many of these same types also...

Not making such effort regarding the state bird might be interpreted as fowl play.

I guess the offender received a "stern" warning...?

When it comes to football fans, I wouldn't be so sure it is meant as a metaphor:)

I just picked him in particular to make a point, but yes, plenty of people period, presidents included, in both parties that have done such.

You make a point about the interview, but having one's picture taken with a person known for spewing vile nonsense can be interpreted as being okay with such, so I'd say yes they are still comparable.

I am not saying he is worthy of respect, but what has he done that is so terrible?

C'mon, Rogan isn't that bad.

What I wonder is when you tell your personal robot/Android to go make a run to the grocery store in your self-driving car, will the robot drive itself, let the car drive, or maybe they argue? Also, I wouldn't call tech support an unskilled job.

Machines replacing craftsmen does not mean the elimination of said craftsmen, just the reduction of the need for them. Sorry you feel that way. You made an argument, I made a counterargument. If you don't want your views to possibly be challenged, you shouldn't post them.

Who says it would be to society's detriment? And a lot of the "art," it could be argued, is nothing of the sort, in particular much modern architecture and "abstract" art (that could be a whole different thread unto itself, in particular about the shenanigans of the architectural profession)...

Unions came about due to mistreatment of workers by businesses, which was fully understandable. But unions have their own history of extreme bullying, thuggishness, greed, and so forth, along with tie-ins with communists and organized crime (organized labor and organized crime go together like...

That argument unto itself is IMO too limited. Why should there be equitable sharing of profits between labor and management? Management, while very often a bunch of no good corrupt SOBs themselves, nonetheless are also priced via market forces. And profits do not belong to any of the employees...

True, but so what? The show is a commercial venture designed to make money. If the people footing the bill can replace any skilled trade in the making of such, they have every right to. Whether it's art or not is irrelevant, unless the customer base demands it be made by humans. I don't like the...

Isn't pay of skilled laborers determined by the market (supply and demand)? A union would constitute forming a worker cartel in order to artificially increase the price of said labor (pay), wouldn't it?

Not too long ago, I remember reading an article from about 1981 saying that the U.S. defense budget to a good degree supplied the Soviets as well because they were so good at thieving. We'd constantly develop more advanced technology, the Soviets would steal it, and then we'd then develop even...

Well yeah, but media/news companies need to make money somehow, right?

"And now we begin our first Presidential debate. Senator So-and-So, the war between Russia and Ukraine is one of the major pressing matters in geopolitics at the moment. Some argue the war is at a stalemate while others argue we need to give the Ukrainian offensive more time. There is the issue...

One criticism I would make is that he oversimplifies the issue of our manufacturing base and economy. We focus on high value stuff, yes, but not just really, really high value, like designing microprocessors and space stations. We also manufacture an enormous amount of high-value goods. We...

Nope, because I just realized it was Putin's ex-PM who said that, not Putin himself, so my mistake and I stand corrected there.

The (Western) Europeans might calculate that letting the Baltics fall into Russian hands would be an acceptable loss versus letting nukes start flying. Best to remain strong and keep the Russians weak so we don't have to find out. Putin I don't believe thought there was any nuclear threat. He...

The problem with this analogy is Norway is only about eight million people and they're mostly all the same ethnicity. Up the population by 10/20/30/40x, add in a whole slew of additional cultures/languages/religions/ethnicities/etc...and you find your country is far more difficult to govern. So...

Well I suppose that's a necessity, otherwise Russia would then be at war with NATO, and that's a huge can of worms to open.

Read an article saying the U.S. working to up 155 mm production to 85,000 a month by 2028 and modernizing the Scranton plant and building new plants. Right now production is about 24,000 a month but the Ukrainians are firing about 6,000 to 8,000 a day, so 180,000 to 240,000 a month. The Russians...

The U.S. in WWII had artillery that would explode above ground so as to take out Germans hiding in trenches (German shells were less advanced and went boom upon impacting the ground). So maybe regular modern artillery is still best for such. How do you know PC gamers thought Russia attacking...