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Like say, minimum wage increases, healthcare Improvement?

I'm not from the US, but the minimum wage thing was pretty prominent.

I mean, 12% is significant, because they're absolute fucking morons. But it's also one of the lowest groups.

He's literally asking for it.

Speaking of artillery... Have you actually seen the locations totally bombed to the ground before Russians move forward another few meters. No amount of mining with anti-personal mines would survive that well enough to actually deter soldiers.

Artillery is actually surprisingly bad at clearing minefields. If you could just lob shells onto a minefield, why would nations everywhere develop incredibly expensive mine-clearing systems?

Minefields are used because they work. Mixed minefields are used just like castle walls, to slow an enemy and increase the defender advantage. They don't stop an enemy by itself, but purely anti-vehicle fields are easily cleared by hand, or walked across. Mixed fields are not.

Actual infantry movement (the reasons I refered to "marching") that would make anti-personal mining reasonable doesn't exist anymore

Minefields that deter strategic movement have never existed. They have always been a tactical thing, even in WW2 desert combat, which saw some of the most extensive minefield ever, they have always been tactical obstacles.

Mining the border doesn't mean spreading mines across the entire literal border. It means defending key areas with thicker fields, and probably not even that, it means keeping them ready just in case.

The thing is, yes, mines might kill civilians some time in the future. But losing a war against a genocidal foreign country will absolutely kill more.

Well, I mean, some people do, most don't. So it depends on who they are.

Time for some disavowable action!

Anti personal mines are of little use in comparison, unless actual infantry marching of foot return.

You mean like the foot infantry assaults that Russia is using along the entire front?

Huh? I thought we all knew this? There's really nothing new in the article.

Ik vind het ook een beetje overkomen als de zure oude volwassenen die het vroeger allemaal zelf wel mochten afsteken, maar het nu wel een beetje te druk en onhandig vinden als al die vervelende kinderen te veel pret maken. "Fuck you, got mine" tegen de jongere generatie.

Tja, "vroeger mocht het wel" is natuurlijk wel een heel slecht argument. Dat geldt voor letterlijk elke verandering.

Vroeger mocht ik op mn 16 met bier in mn linkerhand en een cigaret in mn rechterhand in de bar staan, waar ik op de brommer naartoe mocht zonder rijbewijs. Dat mag allemaal niet meer, is dat een "fuck you, got mine" of is dat gewoon vooruitgang?

They are embodied AI, so improving at the rate AI is. That is exponentially.

I've never wanted a remindme bot more than right now.

I have a friend who has wireless everything, and bragged he even had a wifi coffee maker.

So when I asked him for coffee, he walked to the kitchen, grabbed a cup, but it under the coffee maker, walked back, fidgeted with his phone while showing me how cool it was, walked to the coffee maker, got the cup, came back and handed it to me.

He did appreciate me asking about wireless mugs.