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> The fact that 9/11 happened does not imply that DHS and ICE as currently structured and operating are necessary.

Never said that it does. I’m not in favor of the domestic surveillance dragnet or Trump’s usage of ICE as shock troops and bodysnatchers. Reform is absolutely needed; eliminating the functions of DHS and ICE entirely is foolhardy. The lies and propaganda painting all immigrants as violent radicals don’t change the reality that there is a subset of evil people intent on doing harm.

You sound nuts. I’m not denying the existence of false flags. There is zero evidence to support a false flag theory for 9/11. The intelligence failures were a result of organizational inefficiency and incompetence, not malice.

Given the intense scrutiny of the event you’d think there’d be some evidence if it was actually a false flag, no? It’s pure fantasy. Frankly it’s more likely the 9/11 conspiracy theories are planted by Russian operatives to sow dissent.

Either you don’t know what a false flag is or you are way off the conspiracy deep end. Terrorism has always existed, modern society has just made it easier to kill en masse. America’s misadventures in the Middle East definitely instigated the conflict and the attacks but it’s factually incorrect to imply 9/11 was orchestrated by the US

Literally your body, it needs calories to burn. TINSTAFL

> I have never felt the same level of accomplishment from building things that directly improved the quality of my house, hunting with my father when it was required to help maintain ecological balance (too many deer or elk can actually be bad for an ecosystem), or directly contribute to my family/community in some way.

This is because you were already meeting the base of your pyramid of needs. If you were building shelter because you had none, or hunting for subsistence, it’s considerably less enjoyable. Success means you live another day, failure means suffering. Self actualization is not a concern in those scenarios.

Or is it a sign that life has an inherent cost that must be paid, and without the extractive institutions we’d spend our time scrabbling in the dirt attempting to grow our own food and sewing clothes together with dried grass and hides

> DHS was founded in 2003, as was ICE. The country got along for 227 years without these organizations

Almost like something happened shortly before then that caused a seismic shift in our national security posture…

Simple answer is they don’t have the domain knowledge or experience in other markets. Doesn’t matter how good the models are if the people running the business don’t have a grasp of what the customer wants. Expanding through new ventures or acquisitions outside of your core business to seek short term gains is a classic antipattern

> the intense pressure for public immediate action led to the (firing or resignation) of multiple people who were actually needed for the investigation.

That just sounds like a management failure. You don’t actually have to cave.

TAM for the PC gaming consumer market is trivial compared to enterprise AI

We? There is no monolith here, this is individual arrogance from people who believe AI is driving us to the end of history

Incredibly off-putting name for a search tool

No. Tons of lawyers never even touch criminal law. You do not need to be a defense attorney to be a lawyer.

My mistake, I misremembered. Unfortunately can’t edit.

The Kingdom Come: Deliverance games from Warhorse Studios and the Witcher franchise from CD Projekt Red (both Polish) are excellent and have won a ton of awards

Lots of non EU games fall short, including several mentioned in this thread, e.g. Anthem

Right, but my opinion is that they should charge everyone. This is at least a step in that direction. It’s not “punishing” anyone, it’s making just making it more clear that instead of money they want you to pay with engagement. Apparently 2 links a month is enough of a loss in engagement that the marginal cost of hosting their page outweighs the value Meta gains from having that business on the platform for “free”.

Probably an unpopular take, but this is not a bad thing. Maybe weird on it being for link sharing, but it’s always been deeply anticompetitive to offer a free webpage. It’s bad for the market for them to set the price of hosting a webpage for a business at zero, and the network effects make it easier for them to lock businesses in

One more: he is literally the richest man in the world

Mike Johnson sent the House home early again. Has to wait until the next session before it’s introduced on the floor.

Social norms and “the man”

Wow you are exhausting. Someone asked about disinflation in basic necessities, they responded with a clear example in one of the necessities listed. Are you saying food is unimportant? Why are you incapable of accepting that disinflation has occurred in some cases, largely due to technological advancements? No one is talking about disinflation in medicine or housing because it hasn’t happened. It has with food. No one is trying to steer anything other than you.

FWIW “stoke” in the context of personal finance conjures images of burning piles of cash, for me at least

If you actually read through, the option to disable the functionality was already present… just not documented. So it seems the documentation repo was the correct place to open it

The comment they responded to literally listed food as a basic necessity. Are you not aware that bread comes from wheat?

Cars kill just as many people as guns

Flexing on the poors

Totally not gambling though

New CMOS battery might’ve fixed the BIOS resets

US gets away with it because no one can challenge their military might, Israel gets away with it because any criticism of the state is “anti-Semitic”. Not the same thing

It’s been meaningless ever since the courts decided the “well-regulated militia” part doesn’t actually mean anything. It was never meant to be carte blanche access to every weapon under the sun