"Huge pet peeve... I like gauges I like to see actual oil pressure in my car, actual engine temperature but these days those are rare things in cars. I know the cost difference might be 2 dollars per car and frankly I will happily pay 30 times that since 60 bucks on the cost of a new car is nothing."
Ah! Ford "idiot guages"!:-)
"plastic gears in assemblies"
Well, undersized or of too fine a pitch. Plastic timing chain sprockets last until the chain wears out and breaks the teeth off, demonstrating plastic CAN work.
The problem with modern cars IMO actually IS an "engineering" problem. They are easy to assemble on a production line but are designed with utter indifference to the mechanics who will work on them.
The US IS competitive, and produces a massive amount of manufactured goods.
If it weren't for WWII literally killing off our competition we'd not be nearly as wealthy.
Americans have internalized the idea that the US should COMMAND is disproportionate share of world market and that everyone should be employed at a "good" job.
In an existential struggle there is zero reason not to kill your enemies. The ideal set that says "exalt your enemies above yourself and yield to them" is absurd.
BTW Judaism is the cause of Jew hatred world wide. Insert ANY superstition and that diagnosis fits.
You can, instantly, stop being a Jew or a Muslim or a Christian or cease to adhere to ANY superstition.
Your superstition isn't a biological trait and it's not a race, It's a CHOICE.
It's only a SUPERSTITION JUST LIKE ALL RELIGION. Walk away from the nonsense. It's no better than Scientology.
The US doesn't stand for anything except own advantage, just like other countries.
I could actually care less about Israel or its competitors.
The ideal outcome would be a Middle Eastern nuclear war where all these backward superstitionists destroy each others "Holy Places" so humanity can laugh at their imaginary friends as we do other "dead deities". Religious belief is so contemptible and so backward that its adherents destroying each other is just dandy.
Israel requires perpetual war to survive. I don't care about Jews or Muslims (or superstitionists of any sort!), but existential struggles logically trump "morality" which is merely something to be invoked against enemies. Because an enemy doesn't use violence is not a _logical_ reason not to use violence on them.
The idea of distinguishing between peaceful existential war and violent existential war is silly for Israel. Kill Muslims or be destroyed. There is obviously no alternative, and the casualties are so tiny that the rate can be maintained forever by BOTH sides. They do.
The US supports Israel because Christians demand it, and because Islam in its current form is the enemy of modern secular civilization.
ENEMIES compete. The idea for fair standards of dealing with enemies, neutrals, and friendlies is absurd.
Politics is war, business is war, religion is war.
The preference for Israel is an unfortunate consequence of the post-Holocaust 'guilt cult', as if the West somehow owed Jews anything more after saving them in WWII.
The Soviets weren't "taken down". That turned out to be a myth.
They left because the Afghans would NEVER be useful allies, and the government the Soviets installed lasted a couple of years after the fall of the Soviet Union.
"In other words, you can't always achieve peace through strength. Sometimes you have to lend a hand because it's the right thing to do."
No. That is logically insupportable because it requires effort be expended on lost causes. It's a commitment to perpetual war.
The Afghans don't want anything but tribalism. We bribe everyone who works for us with aid. The Taliban are perfect for a Muslim nation.
The flip side to being "one deep" is you are more valuable. I would lean towards hoarding knowledge and being on-call. I don't WANT my employer to be comfortable functioning without me.
Be good at giving verbal instructions and at typing them on the fly for emailing.
The greater death rate from coal is manageable because we have systems which easily handle it along with other common causes of death in the modern world. Coal is a "non-disruptive" killer like nicotine.
Nuclear accidents are extremely rare but their effects are concentrated and highly disruptive even when they don't cause many casualties!
The disruption is the problem, not the dead people!
As an aside, that's what makes "terrorism" so effective. If Al Qaeda transparently added several thousand deaths to "accepted" causes of death it wouldn't be "scary" and wouldn't accomplish their goals.
Not a jammer, a SNIFFER. Jamming affects others, and is detectable.
SNIFFING allows detection and MANIPULATION of a a GPS surveillance device. You don't want people tracking you to know what you know, you want to control what they think they know.
I just had a colonoscopy to ensure nothing was wrong. I think I surprised the staff by asking the monitor be turned my way. (There is no need for much if any anesthesia, BTW.) Watched them zap a polyp, no big deal.
I have friends who are too uptight to get a colonoscopy because it's "embarrassing", as if an ostomy is less so!
Shitting in public only matters if one has a taboo against it We must shit somewhere, but taboos are a choice. Military latrines were once "open bay" (easier to ventilate and clean) and the solution to shared shitting space was not to care about that.
Indifference is the best way to kill taboos, superstitions, and other nonsense.
A particularly silly hobby involving planting things in areas which do not belong to you is no loss if it's stopped.
Want an excuse to go walkabout, go orienteering instead. Map, compass, no GPS. You get to look up instead of down and learn a useful skill if Something Bad happens to GPS satellites.
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"Huge pet peeve... I like gauges I like to see actual oil pressure in my car, actual engine temperature but these days those are rare things in cars. I know the cost difference might be 2 dollars per car and frankly I will happily pay 30 times that since 60 bucks on the cost of a new car is nothing."
Ah! Ford "idiot guages"! :-)
"plastic gears in assemblies"
Well, undersized or of too fine a pitch. Plastic timing chain sprockets last until the chain wears out and breaks the teeth off, demonstrating plastic CAN work.
The problem with modern cars IMO actually IS an "engineering" problem. They are easy to assemble on a production line but are designed with utter indifference to the mechanics who will work on them.
The US IS competitive, and produces a massive amount of manufactured goods.
If it weren't for WWII literally killing off our competition we'd not be nearly as wealthy.
Americans have internalized the idea that the US should COMMAND is disproportionate share of world market and that everyone should be employed at a "good" job.
That's literally insane.
Jews and Muslims, are, after all, enemies in that Judaism and Islam are competing exclusive superstitions.
Ending an old, legacy system which gobbled up the space budget isn't "regrettable".
We could have sent hundreds of remotely manned probes into space and actually done some exploration instead of wasting time in LEO.
Let OTHER countries blow their money on manned penis-waving missions instead.
Corrie asked for it.
In an existential struggle there is zero reason not to kill your enemies. The ideal set that says "exalt your enemies above yourself and yield to them" is absurd.
BTW
Judaism is the cause of Jew hatred world wide. Insert ANY superstition and that diagnosis fits.
You can, instantly, stop being a Jew or a Muslim or a Christian or cease to adhere to ANY superstition.
Your superstition isn't a biological trait and it's not a race, It's a CHOICE.
It's only a SUPERSTITION JUST LIKE ALL RELIGION. Walk away from the nonsense. It's no better than Scientology.
The US doesn't stand for anything except own advantage, just like other countries.
I could actually care less about Israel or its competitors.
The ideal outcome would be a Middle Eastern nuclear war where all these backward superstitionists destroy each others "Holy Places" so humanity can laugh at their imaginary friends as we do other "dead deities". Religious belief is so contemptible and so backward that its adherents destroying each other is just dandy.
Israel requires perpetual war to survive. I don't care about Jews or Muslims (or superstitionists of any sort!), but existential struggles logically trump "morality" which is merely something to be invoked against enemies. Because an enemy doesn't use violence is not a _logical_ reason not to use violence on them.
The idea of distinguishing between peaceful existential war and violent existential war is silly for Israel. Kill Muslims or be destroyed. There is obviously no alternative, and the casualties are so tiny that the rate can be maintained forever by BOTH sides. They do.
The US supports Israel because Christians demand it, and because Islam in its current form is the enemy of modern secular civilization.
"Anything to do with Facebook, Israel and super hidden government agents is going to be bad. "
Depends on which SIDE you are on.
ENEMIES compete. The idea for fair standards of dealing with enemies, neutrals, and friendlies is absurd.
Politics is war, business is war, religion is war.
The preference for Israel is an unfortunate consequence of the post-Holocaust 'guilt cult', as if the West somehow owed Jews anything more after saving them in WWII.
JEWS ARE NOT A RACE.
Judaism is a superstition like all other religions, which one may adopt or reject at will.
Your first sentence was fine, but there is ZERO excuse for confusing RACE with RELIGION with ETHNICITY.
The Soviets weren't "taken down". That turned out to be a myth.
They left because the Afghans would NEVER be useful allies, and the government the Soviets installed lasted a couple of years after the fall of the Soviet Union.
"In other words, you can't always achieve peace through strength. Sometimes you have to lend a hand because it's the right thing to do."
No. That is logically insupportable because it requires effort be expended on lost causes. It's a commitment to perpetual war.
The Afghans don't want anything but tribalism. We bribe everyone who works for us with aid. The Taliban are perfect for a Muslim nation.
The War on Some Drugs is a war on the public.
The flip side to being "one deep" is you are more valuable. I would lean towards hoarding knowledge and being on-call. I don't WANT my employer to be comfortable functioning without me.
Be good at giving verbal instructions and at typing them on the fly for emailing.
Destroy enough taboos and you work towards that utopia.
"What's wrong with tranny porn?"
It's difficult to explain to the other priests using our computer.
Silly rabbit, SNIFF, manipulate, but don't jam.
Controlling what the enemy trusts because THEY nstalled it is better than stopping it from working.
The greater death rate from coal is manageable because we have systems which easily handle it along with other common causes of death in the modern world. Coal is a "non-disruptive" killer like nicotine.
Nuclear accidents are extremely rare but their effects are concentrated and highly disruptive even when they don't cause many casualties!
The disruption is the problem, not the dead people!
As an aside, that's what makes "terrorism" so effective. If Al Qaeda transparently added several thousand deaths to "accepted" causes of death it wouldn't be "scary" and wouldn't accomplish their goals.
At last, Germany surrenders to the French! (runs)
No, we are going to see very rich Frenchmen selling Germany power produced by French nuclear plants.
Not a jammer, a SNIFFER. Jamming affects others, and is detectable.
SNIFFING allows detection and MANIPULATION of a a GPS surveillance device. You don't want people tracking you to know what you know, you want to control what they think they know.
I just had a colonoscopy to ensure nothing was wrong. I think I surprised the staff by asking the monitor be turned my way. (There is no need for much if any anesthesia, BTW.) Watched them zap a polyp, no big deal.
I have friends who are too uptight to get a colonoscopy because it's "embarrassing", as if an ostomy is less so!
Shitting in public only matters if one has a taboo against it We must shit somewhere, but taboos are a choice. Military latrines were once "open bay" (easier to ventilate and clean) and the solution to shared shitting space was not to care about that.
Indifference is the best way to kill taboos, superstitions, and other nonsense.
Using pirated music is like using pirated Windows or Office.
IT IS MARKET CHUMMING BY ANOTHER NAME.
CB radio. Yes. really. Besides being a great resource of info on the highway, Channel 9 is reserved for emergency use.
Snow and automobiles among other things take down telephone poles. If the shit hits the fan, have a radio.
A particularly silly hobby involving planting things in areas which do not belong to you is no loss if it's stopped.
Want an excuse to go walkabout, go orienteering instead. Map, compass, no GPS. You get to look up instead of down and learn a useful skill if Something Bad happens to GPS satellites.
That, and NO civilians except Robert Gates know fuck all about military reform.
Neither Party has a clue nor are they interested.