ericmay

Ok so let me explain something to you as I think you might be a little new to the military or military theory, combat, &c. Militaries need to train in order to test systems, test weapons, gain exp…

I think that's a separate question from the validity of real-life combat experience that American (and other) forces are gaining that Chinese forces lack, with respect to the OP.

Dropping bombs and evading live anti-aircraft fire is of limited applicability? Are you sure you're not confusing combined arms exercises that the US has, and continues to engage in (Venezuela co…

I don't think so because China would not be sure what and how the US would be involved and because it would be incredibly risky to attack Taiwan without striking US forces in the area they'…

This applies to open-source evangelists and developers too.

> This is wishcasting. People are raising the alarm because models like GLM-5.2 and Kimi K3 have already displaced demand for frontier models in highly demanding fields like security research. Ther…

No they won't. They'll offer far superior models at a premium price and they'll capture most of the profits similar to iPhone versus the Android manufacturers. US companies will also re…

> In a world where open-weight models dominate, the proprietary frontier models of Anthropic and OpenAI will find it virtually impossible to charge monopolistic pricing. Maybe they can't charg…

What was the lesson learned? I’m guessing they didn’t care whether or not the OP knew the answer, they just wanted to see how they solved the problem and cramming for the test is the anti-pattern beca…

I haven’t made any incorrect assumptions. > Nobody said small waste should not be fixed, they said it wouldn’t move the needle. Ok then we agree that we should pursue eliminating small dollar waste…

They’re not right though because “don’t need to worry about them” doesn’t make sense. What do you mean worry? That sounds like “we don’t need to fix small line-item waste” which I simply reject for be…

> Then we can have a discussion about how to fix it. Ok but I am not trying, nor have I given that impression, to find individual examples of government waste and specifically fix those. As I’m rep…

The eroding of Germany as a manufacturing powerhouse is scary for the future of Europe. If it happens peacefully, well, where will the money come from to sustain these states? If it doesn't happe…

Well I can go dig up a few examples - and then what? Are you suggesting that the government doesn't waste money on small line items?

At the end of the day I've already stated my opinion here and I don't really have much else to say as I'm just repeating myself. I was never defending the specific claims (true or other…

> Why not actually find out if they’re true or not? Because I don't care about those specific items and whether those specific items are true or not. What does it matter? The broader point is …

> Until Trump came along and discarded those other things, several of those other things were working. Which ones were working? > Demonstrably not today you aren't, > Running out of even…

> Again, no, you are rather mischaracterising what I said. Ok then let's characterize it better. Are unions today a force for pushing the country forward? > you could have had by falling f…

> You did defend the specific items, you said so explicitly, you used the word “specific” in your previous comment, your first sentence said you are now “more convinced the OP was right to point ou…

It doesn't matter what the media publishes, it matters what blue-collar former democrats vote and they vote Trump. You are claiming that unions are what push the country forward, you claim the cu…

> I don’t want my tax dollars wasted. We do agree on that, right? The government does waste some money. We agree on that too, right? Yes, so why are you arguing with me? The specific claims aren&…

> Yes, I think the question of whether or not the US is living above its means is settled. Where you cut is a political decision. I certainly think the US can reduce its military spending, with an …

> The comparison is the unambiguous gains for society union labour organisation achieved through industrial history, which was a clear public good, and what is lost if there are no longer unions to…

> Perhaps. However, there are many alternatives to "attack" besides "do nothing". Yes, and we've tried lots of different things. > You can't defend Taiwan, full sto…

It's not a good analogy though. Unions aren't a clear public good. > The way those arguments are made is similarly ignorant of history, is the simple point. Yes and that point is rejected…

> Don't do these silly bad faith, straw man characterisations. I reject the association literally or otherwise.

> The constitution of the United States explicitly describes it as a union in the preamble. No, there's no relation.

I reject the notion that the public is the same thing as a union in the manner you are describing.

> I literally did not say that vaccine and vaccine adoption has anything to do with unions. Why would you ever think I did? It's an analogy. ??? > we don't need unions anymore are enga…

I know history better than you do, generally speaking. You cherry-picked the wrong comment. Vaccines and vaccine adoption has nothing to do with unions nor are they even remotely comparable.