Started as Factory Default, then Work Issued, and now I’m pretty sure it’s Corrupted Data.

So we get Universal healthcare then, right?

right?

Where they tried to revert the rogue state founded by terrorists who drove the British out and as many Palestinians as they could? Oh no, such badness.

But no Hezbollah was founded during Israel’s long occupation of Southern Lebanon, where Israel explicitly tried Soviet tactics to expand, by extending their civil services to Southern Lebanese in good standing with Israel.

Well yes, because Israel still occupies Lebanese land.

In Afghanistan and Iraq we already knew that bombing people was not how you get rid of ideas. That’s why we spent 20 and 10 years (respectively) in those countries. We weren’t bombing anything if we could help it. And in Iraq we managed to put in a semi-stable government. In Afghanistan we managed to push the majority of the fighting into the mountains, away from most civilian population centers. We just straight screwed up the civil part afterwards.

We learned that bombing doesn’t kill morale in World War 1, World War 2, Korea, and Vietnam. Vietnam is the last time we tried carpet bombing civilian populations, and is often cited as the reason we developed the guided bomb kits, small diameter bombs, and even kamikaze drones that specifically do not explode and cause as little disturbance as possible other than people they directly impact.

This has been a learned lesson with a known solution for decades.

Time and again he has repeated their propaganda, even when our own intelligence agencies said Israel was lying. He always talks about a ceasefire, but every time Netanyahu moves the goalposts at the last minute, (usually by adding Hamas’ known deal breaker that IDF troops would remain afterwards), Biden blames Hamas. Biden and Blinken have ignored evidence of war crimes from their own agencies that disqualify Israel for military aid. Now he’s surged troops into the region, and he isn’t using them to evacuate the 6,000 Americans who have asked for help leaving Lebanon.

Where does it stop? We think it has to just based on rationality but we made that mistake with Bush. We thought that a clear trial of the facts in Congress would either give him the moral authority to conduct the war or shut it all down and he just ignored that part of the AUMF. Like Biden has just ignored any evidence against Israel, even regarding the ICC. So I ask again, where does this train stop? What evidence do we have that he’s working to restrain Netanyahu and prevent a wider war being kicked off by the obvious belligerent?

If Netanyahu can get an open war between Israel and Iran before Jan 20th then Biden will absolutely commit ground forces to fighting that. Which is going to mean counter insurgency or even frontline work in Iraq again.

Probably because I’d never want to sleep again. That would be a horrific way to find out you only have as long as you can stay awake.

Eh, it would be worth it with the right recreational activities up there and knowing we weren’t setting up altered carbon.

Scratchy. For those itches you just can’t get any other way.

I’m that case no it wouldn’t matter. It would make us all feel much better about the possibility of life after the body dies though.

There’s always orbital habitats. They ramp up a lot quicker than even a Mars colony.

If they’re functional, and we get serious about space or birth control, then no it’s not a problem. But that is another path we can take to really juice the dystopia.

Yes, yes it matters a lot. If you die you do not wake up again.

You’re mixing up speculative and philosophical.

I’m honestly surprised they cooked the hot dog or didn’t replace it. It just gets worse at every level.

Hold on, what color Soylent are we talking about? Is it the delicious, definitely only plants, green flavor?

Sure, in the most dystopian way possible.

Pretty sure that’s not true…

That calculus as a modern field wasn’t established until the 1600’s does not mean the Romans only had geometry. That’s not how technology works. It doesn’t fit neatly into containers defined by modern thought. They likely developed what they needed and thought nothing of calling it something else because their purpose for it was different. For example Calculus is often called the study of change, not something the Romans were super interested in. Unlike the Greeks who were figuring out astronomy math. If you want to see how far they were before things started falling apart you’d have to get a historian to tell you what they even considered the mathematical fields to be and look at how they used it.