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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump

« on: April 29, 2025, 10:55:31 PM »

Looks like another woke Biden program in the military bites the dust.
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5272905-hegseth-pentagon-women-peace-security/

Thing is...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth declared Tuesday that he had begun to shutter a Pentagon program meant to advance women’s participation in peace-building and conflict prevention, which was created by a law written by GOP lawmakers and signed by President Trump during his first term.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump

« on: April 19, 2025, 11:30:41 PM »

Or, as honk pointed out, lifts in his shoes, and possibly in combination with highish heels? 

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump

« on: April 18, 2025, 03:13:42 PM »

Trump is supposed to be 6'3", yet is shorter than Vance who is 6'2".

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump

« on: April 18, 2025, 12:21:36 AM »

I like this bit from the link:

The SpaceX-led group is pitching the Pentagon on a 'subscription model' for missile defense, sources said

How would that even work?

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump

« on: April 14, 2025, 10:32:38 PM »

If not, then cheaper foreign alternative it is.

^ The king of equitable outcomes, ladies and germs...

Maybe you don't have to live paycheck to paycheck, but a good number of people do.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump

« on: April 13, 2025, 07:06:41 PM »

Since you argue that more purity in US manufacturing is needed, I see that you agree with Trump in his stance that manufacturing needs to return to the USA.

Not really my point.  Just pointing out the mixed message that the MAGA leadership is sending by having patriotic merch made outside of the USA,

The way the video is presented shows that some items such as basic caps and shirts say Made in USA, but other items such as bomber jackets and mugs and golf hats say made in other countries. This is an accurate representation that some manufacturing exists, and represents a work in progress.

Which of those items cannot be currently made in the USA?  I could be wrong, but I'm guessing that every single one of those foreign made MAGA items could be made in the USA.  So why don't they?  Greed, of course.  More profit from cheaper foreign goods.

Trump says that there is a lack of manufacturing in the USA, and that this needs to change. I am happy that you looked at this video and agree with him.

As a consumer, I'm not entirely sure that I do agree.  Sure, I'd like to buy American whenever possible, but, like so many Americans, I'm also a cheapskate.  If American made products can compete on price, then great.  If not, then cheaper foreign alternative it is.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump

« on: April 13, 2025, 04:47:30 PM »

I wonder how much the tariffs will affect the price of MAGA merch.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/tg8PQzgV4ls?feature=share

The fact that this store even exists owns the libs. I'm not sure why you want to bring it up and remind us that Trump is populist king.

What kind of message is the MAGA leadership sending to their loyal sheeple when their patriotic merch is made in China?  Why doesn't Trump insist that ALL MAGA merch be made in the USA?  To Trump, patriotism is little more than a marketing scam.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump

« on: April 12, 2025, 01:47:49 PM »

I wonder how much the tariffs will affect the price of MAGA merch.

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Now Playing

« on: April 12, 2025, 01:42:30 PM »

Finally, a Papa that can move his jaw.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump

« on: April 10, 2025, 10:29:48 PM »

That's 37.5 gallons.  Mar-a-Largo must get shampoo delivered by tanker truck.   

Or Trump has so much product in his hair, it literally repells water.

Hmmm...  You might be onto something.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Terrible Political Memes

« on: April 10, 2025, 01:03:49 AM »

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump

« on: April 06, 2025, 08:33:52 PM »

The thing Trump is trying to do is go back to 1895 - 1913, when there was a budget surplus and no income taxes were collected.

And when there was no Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, interstate highways, etc.

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Flat Earth Investigations / Re: Does light naturally travel in curved paths?

« on: April 06, 2025, 04:43:42 AM »

In any rigorous evaluation, if your peer reviewers or replicators lack the means to independently recreate your findings, your work gets stamped "unreproducible."

The thing is, you aren’t a member of a peer group that is able to reproduce the results.  Neither is anyone else here.  So what?  Does that mean that you should automatically disregard the results from those who are in that particular peer group and have reproduced the results? 

Peer review means just that, review by one’s peers, not review by any schmuck on the street.

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Flat Earth Investigations / Re: Does light naturally travel in curved paths?

« on: April 06, 2025, 02:33:43 AM »

Cool. So post some examples and I'll have a look.
There are significantly more than 500 videos and photos of the globe earth from space.

The examples are readily available, and reproducible. Your "photos of the globe earth from space" claim is not reproducible.

Of course photos of the globe earth from space are reproducible.  That you personally don’t have the resources to reproduce them yourself does not mean that those who do have the resources can’t reproduce them. 

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Flat Earth Popularity stronger than ever!

« on: April 05, 2025, 06:01:24 AM »

As the content of the Wiki grew, the discussion waned, in perfect lockstep.

And as we all know, correlation is the same as causation

Correlation is not causation, but it is a good place to start looking.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump

« on: April 03, 2025, 02:30:20 PM »

Unlike a tax, you can choose not to pay it. Simply refrain from buying tariffed goods. In an ideal teriffed America you would see cheaper American brands on the shelf next to more expensive imported brands, who are forced to justify their increased price with innovation. Right now it's the reverse, where cheaper foreign goods flood the market and more expensive American brands can only survive with innovation for a smaller market share.

All of that presumes that American made alternatives exist.   For example, how many of the consumer electronic devices that we all know and love are actually made in America?

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Flat Earth Popularity stronger than ever!

« on: April 02, 2025, 07:46:38 PM »

After the many years of the naysaying and the supposed "deboonking", flat earth is enjoying an evident resurgence.

The globesters are out of ammunition. They will soon start Armageddon.

Oh?  Then why did several prominent FE’ers like Jeranism renounce FE after the Final Experiment?
https://www.unilad.com/technology/space/flat-earth-explained-jeranism-antarctica-273856-20241219

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump

« on: April 02, 2025, 07:42:10 PM »

Video snipped.

Entertainment lawyers have no credence in the discussion.

If you had bothered to watch the video, you would have seen that he brought on other lawyers who have more insight into such matters.  Like a former Judge Advocate General who knows a whole lot more about the laws regarding information security than you or Tom do.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump

« on: April 01, 2025, 02:40:45 AM »

It’s one thing to say that we’re deploying troops to an area.  It’s quite another to say that the planes are taking off right now and bombs should be dropping in 2 hours.   I don’t understand why you can’t see the difference.

Both an announcement that you are deploying troops to an area and that you are sending out planes to an unspecified target have some amount of hypothetical risk.

No, they don't.  The houthies know that they are targets.  If they get 2 hours notice that jets are coming their way, they they have time to prepare a welcome.

However, the Secretary isn't a random officer spilling secrets. They have access to classified intel and a team of advisors on the response capabilities of the enemy, and they are trusted to judge what to share and when. If they do say something like, "Planes are taking off now" in an unclassified medium, it's not an accident. It is because they've decided the benefit of disclosure to the audience outweighs the risk.

Tom, did you miss the part where they didn't realize that an unauthorized journalist was included in the chat?  They weren't declassifying information for public release.  They were discussing an ongoing military air strike against an enemy that has air defenses on personal devices that may or may not have been hacked by our adversaries.  Top government and military personnel have secure government issued devices for a reason.

Maybe this will explain the situation more clearly:

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump

« on: March 31, 2025, 01:40:42 PM »

It's only problematic to the desperate anti-trump leftists and liberal media hype meisters. The average people see through this.

i like to think that I'm not that far from "average people" as well as a military veteran and I find this level of incompetence at the very top of the military command to be very problematic.  And so should anyone who thinks that keeping sensitive information out of the hands of people not authorized to have it is a good idea.

Part of the job of the Secretary of Defense is to tell us sensitive information though. He is a communicator of sensitive information. How many times have we heard over the years things like "We are sending another x thousand troops to the frontline". Maybe you could not communicate things like this when you were in the military, but the Secretary of Defense can.

It’s one thing to say that we’re deploying troops to an area.  It’s quite another to say that the planes are taking off right now and bombs should be dropping in 2 hours.   I don’t understand why you can’t see the difference.

We are talking about the nuance of what he can and can't say publicly or on unclassified networks, which goes beyond the well known rules for a soldier. You guys are applying the wrong rules to the wrong person. The SecDef has extra responsibility and classification powers for his special role. Whether he is giving out sensitive information to the public, or to VIPs, he has additional freedom and responsibility of disclosure. The partial operational activities he provided were not necessarily "obviously classified" or improper to communicate to anyone.

Tom, rule number one of operational security is that you don’t talk about ongoing operations on an unsecure platform with people who are not authorized to have that information.  Rule number two of operational security is, when in doubt, see rule number one.  Trump and his staff can’t seem to grasp that concept either.