And that answers OPs question.

I think most of who you’re hearing are Americans. I might hate Putin with all my heart, but he leads a different country. There isn’t “chain of command” between me and him.

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I try to avoid the virulent speech (not always successfully I admit) about Americans’ choice in leadership. And to a large degree, at home, even that is outside my “sphere of influence”, but I at least have an opportunity to be heard by other parts of the electorate here.

And by the way, I think supporting Trump is supporting Putin. I hope I’m wrong, but I do believe that.

We can piss and moan about Putin (and we do, I’m not sure what you’re missing TBH), but investing time and emotional energy, it makes sense to start at home, where we at least should have some influence on self-determination.

Every minute is a death and a rebirth.

You play the hand you have.

Depending on your personal attachment to that car, your personal interest in a different car, your financial capacity, the ability to extend your lease is just another card you can play.

What is a “good deal” anyway? What are you seeking? Something pragmatic like equivalent reliability to your current car but for equal or less cost of ownership?

And I suppose he’s a doctor now.

What is, standing or sitting?

Now I lay me down to pee…

We don’t normally talk about this!

We should though! We should just not be shit bags about it. Sharing & seeking info rather than having a weird chauvinistic view on how pee exits bodies.

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Things are contextual. “Does sit to pee” does not equate “always sits to pee”.

I love you

I will say the option to stand up is one of my favorite male privileges, but I’m also aware that such a petty thing to fav probably indicates my lack of perspective. But it is incredibly convenient in gross places and nowhere places.

No, mainly because if you sort posts by new here it’s in large majority nothing anyone I know wants to see, and I don’t want them to think that’s what I’m here for.

I’m spitballing for a conversation. I don’t think I’m a pivotal strategic player.

Edit: that said, I do think what you said is certainly worth mention, so I want to get ahead of my defensiveness.

So to continue, do you think that such a tactic would be valuable for a state funded interest?

Unfortunately there’s no version of politics without gaming. Merit is clearly not enough to win alone, however I do believe all things being equal the participants with stronger merit are more resilient against the games.

I have no problem taking flack for it. In my view they’re so far off base that a flurry of unforced errors unravel with every variable.

I’m obviously out of my element, but I hope he’s right on this. In my understanding F-16s are new to Ukraine, and I have to imagine there are going to be integration problems. Firing someone who was front and center at experiencing and ideally learning from such a problem seems risky.

Dying from all causes sounds like a really rough last page.

I agree, LLMs have been helpful in pointing me in the right direction and helping me rethink what questions I actually want to ask in disciplines I’m not very familiar with.

Agree, and the point I always want to make is that any LLM or neural net or any other AI tech is going to be a mere component in a powerful product, rather than the entirety of the product.

The way I think of it is that my brain is of little value without my body, and my person is of little value without my team at work. I don’t exist in a vacuum but I can be highly productive within my environment.