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> Starship Troopers So, disclaimer: I'm very aware that Verhoeven created Starship Troopers satirizing fascism and holding up a mirror to American society. That said, I am somewhat a fan of …

I think that's a lovely idea.

Agree. I believe during WW2 the government put rules in place to prevent companies from making too much profit from the war. From what I recall in history class taxes were raised significantly as well…

This is all well and good but as long as advertising is how folks make money on the web, the surveillance state will persist.

That's what the ideal would look like in my opinion too. Like the Peace Corps.

> No American has served me by joining the military and killing black, brown, and asian women and children Oh? I would argue that most of us in the United States live in complete blissful ignore …

Agree. I also think both men and women should serve.

> Why volunteer? The arrogance to think a draft or mandatory service is anywhere in the realm of acceptable is galling. Agree. That's what we saw during Vietnam. The public finally got invol…

Well you are absolutely wrong.

> people should be free to choose how connected they want to feel Yes and no. Of course people should be free, at the same time you live in a society and not a state of nature. If someone never …

> why should they also be able to draft you for some free labor if there's no war or other emergency going on? You can only prepare for a fire before it starts.

> By saying they "should be required", you are promoting the idea that their desire for war is acceptable as long as they codify certain standards, which they are able to use their power…

Of course it's not. Once upon a time quite long ago kings and generals got on the field. But as we industrialized leadership moved to "the back." See concepts like Auftragstaktik , com…

Agree - the key is that everyone MUST include people in power.

Other countries have compulsory military service, for example Finland. Generally speaking I am a fan of the idea that everyone should be required to do some kind of community service for 2 years once …

settle down

lol this is paywalled - get rekt

https://archive.is/0DyHf

You forgot "Ice Ye" - the latest unexpected twist in the saga of Kanye!

In East Germany under the Soviets, typewriters were registered with the government. I'm surprised we haven't seen a repeat of that for computers.

I admire Kent for his long commitment to honesty and public vulnerability. Thanks Kent for all your great contributions to software engineering and here is wishing you well.

15% seems much too low. I would think more like 25-30% are either fully or partially AI-generated. And we've had ML-backed propaganda bots on reddit long before LLMs showed up.

If you're into it, you could always re-flash your TP-Link hardware with some open-source firmware that is more automation friendly. I used to be intimidated by it, but a friend showed me how to d…