First, the myth about civilians isn't working anymore, because we still remember how it all ended. Irish terrorists were unstoppable and nothing Britain did could ever end them. And then, the 9/11 happened. George W Bush enacted regulations that banned financing of terrorists. Because he wanted to be politically correct, he banned all terrorists, not just Muslim ones. And so, overnight IRA ran out of steam and sued for peace. All it took was to stop financing them from abroad.
Second, exactly the same troops were deployed in the same place when the same people rioted in 1992. And it went very well.
@wjmaggos@DarrenNevares The allure of the fun half of Fediverse can be fairly powerful. Naturally the fun side has its pitfalls even before the excommunication.
"We were able to meet with senior staff. So we met with very senior people in the White House, in the inner core.
We basically relayed our concerns about A.I., and their response to us was, “Yes, the national agenda on A.I. We will implement it in the Biden administration and in the second term. We are going to make sure that A.I. is going to be a function of two or three large companies. We will directly regulate and control those companies. There will be no start-ups. This whole thing where you guys think you can just start companies and write code and release code on the internet — those days are over. That’s not happening.”"
@sun Every time you post symptoms of worsening condo-dweller degeneration, I'm going to bring out this:
"But cars didn't shape our existence; cars let us escape with our lives. We're way the heck out here in Valley Bottom Heights and Trout Antler Estates because we were at war with the cities. We fought rotten public schools, idiot municipal bureaucracies, corrupt political machines, rampant criminality and the pointy-headed busybodies. Cars gave us our dragoons and hussars, lent us speed and mobility, let us scout the terrain and probe the enemy's lines. And thanks to our cars, when we lost the cities we weren't forced to surrender, we were able to retreat."
"If I'm following correctly, the British government: 1. Gave up an island it owned for no reason other than woke virtue signaling 2. Realized it needed the military base on that island 3. Is now desperate to buy a lease from the new owners to operate that base, at any price, having given up all negotiating leverage"
@deprecated_ii@sun@KuteboiCoder Maybe there's no million scale surplus, but I suspect there are still examples that you want to hire from abroad and the retards hating on Elon right now are going to throw that baby out with the bathwater.
"Crypto won. Next we're going to: - Free Ross - Fire Gary - End Operation Chokepoint 2.0 - Pass common sense stablecoin legislation - Enable in-kind redemptions - Turn on staking in ETH ETFs - Shutter SEC lawfare investigations - Provide regulatory clarity for crypto"
@sun Akshualli... Tereshkova was a such a disaster that indeed, the positive sexism precluded any more women for a long time. She fucked up all the experimental program by doing whatever she wanted up there[1]. As a result, Savitsakya had to work 10 times harder than necessary just to prove that she had it. In addition, Savitskaya was a daughter of an Air Force general, so she always had a certain cloud of nepotism hanging over her.
[1] The most positive reading was that she had health issues and didn't want to admit to them. As a result, she was unable to unbuckle and reach the experimental materials in racks. However, she also failed attempts to orient the ship manually, and she crowned the debacle by eating food right after landing (provided by local peasants), which screwed up the medical program.