throwawayoldie

> I just can't imagine why a submersible structural designer would select composites for this application

Maybe it's easier to imagine if you consider the designer in question not as a submersible structural designer per se, but rather a nepo baby cosplaying as one.

In the Year Of Our Lord 2025, there is no difference between the two.

Yes.

"If we pay the Dane, certainly he won't ever come back for more Danegeld."

OK, agreed, there's at least two good reasons.

"Third planet of this Class G star dominated by psychotic tool-using apes. Stay away."

I mean...that's what the job is.

I think you just wrote the epitaph for the human race.

And now let's imagine what might happen if the US military tried to occupy a country full of guerillas who look like them, dress like them, speak the same language, and share a cultural background.

> it wouldn't have seemed at all implausible the USA would have faced an actual communist revolution

Read the first volume of Robert Caro's biography of LBJ, and you'll see that the militant farmers and tradespeople of Ohio were on the verge of declaring independent soviets when the New Deal began.

Switzerland.

It says that WWII happened in someone else's front yard.

"First American genocide?" Maybe ask a Native American about that...if you can find one.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethiopia#Derg_era_(1974%E2%80%... comes to mind.

So, even if you weren't factually incorrect as well as smug, what's your actual point?

Some very close haircuts.

I've noticed the word "bullshit" is making a big comeback, which is encouraging to me. Because, good Lord, is there ever so much bullshit.

There's a third possibility: collective action. It's easy to forget this, because the powers that be have been working hard for many decades to denigrate it.

Also reminiscent of the old Onion article from the Bush Jr. era invasion of Iraq: "This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t"

https://theonion.com/this-war-will-destabilize-the-entire-mi...

I take your point, but whose side do you think the government is on? Ours?

I seem to remember a few months ago reading about wargames and/or scenario planning for a hypothetical US/China war, and the conclusion was, the US Navy gets thoroughly and quickly rekt.

> They get hate because support war efforts / police / intelligence.

Right. That's exactly why they get hate. So what's the problem with that?

90% of the time, the answer is "Ronald Reagan". Most of the remaining 10%, the answer is "Jack Welch".

"While some worry AI will dehumanize the hiring process, we believe the opposite."

"AI will create jobs instead of destroying them."

"AI will solve the climate crisis despite doubling or tripling humanity's energy footprint."

At some point it became acceptable to lie to the public with a straight face.

It's where we're headed _if we let these assholes get away with it_. They have the money and guns, but we have the numbers.

And also _every third phrase_ is _rendered in bold_ because _otherwise nobody can read it_

That's bullshit. It's about having talent they can exploit under the threat of losing their visa.

It definitely sounds intriguing, in the same sense that a bad car accident is intriguing.

Meta: "AI Agents enable the multiverse"

Oooh, I'm one square away from hitting Bullshit Bingo!

That's ridiculous.

It's clearly his parents who were being unprofessional, by conceiving him on 7/20.

Let's hope.