Oh nah, if this is anything, it’s another push to expand the military budget in ANOTHER bid to privatize the military, something he and his have been on for years.

As we all know from COVID, if you don’t have data on a thing, it stops existing.

Can we get Scaramucci back?

I can’t wait to see Dr Phil get arrested on camera by the Danish army.

Target identification, threat assessment, determining level of force necessary, simply being a human face rather than a machine. Drones are also vulnerable to electrical issues, signal issues, all sorts of things a human simply doesn’t need to worry about or are more easily remedied in a human.

Occupying land is not simply about killing the enemy, and multiple armies have learned this over the course of human history. Rarely are you concerned with SIMPLY taking the land - even if it’s agrarian capacities or whatever you’re worried about, having the employees still alive (largely) leads to better outcomes. Having a functioning economy in the occupied zone leads to less resistance. Facilitating the continuity of life within the occupied zone does too - and that doesn’t work if your “occupation force” is a bunch of robot dogs that mow down anyone for being in the street.

Also, he can’t feel shame or regret, not in the way most of us do. The reflection pool thing was, in his mind, NEVER his fault, and it’ll always be someone else’s fault. He’s got an infinite money bucket and enough political power to make sure he doesn’t need to actually come close to actually colliding with reality.

Drones cannot occupy a city. Drones cannot hold land. Even in the grim darkness of the 21st century, a drone is far more susceptible to outside factors eliminating its fighting capability than a human soldier standing in the same spot. At the end of the day, yes, a bulk of the fighting will be done by remote, but you’ll still need meatbags with guns to actually advance and take areas. There’s really no way to get around that unless we somehow develop autonomous robots that are able to make smart choices and strategize on the ground without human oversight, and I simply don’t see us managing any serious level of “AGI” from the current idea of machine learning, at all.

Why wouldn’t they? The investigatory agency for this is the USCG, and last I recall, the man in charge of Homeland Security and the rest of the US is pretty comfy with doing favors for his billionaire friends.

It also just has a lot of really cool factions to fight in general. I will always love the Clockwork.

Man I fucking forgot about Freedom Force. Hours lost in the first one just for character creation, I must’ve spent days fine tuning things.

I was about to say, I read all the books as they were releasing. This is still dumb as fuck and the fans who agitated for it should feel ashamed.

Pokemon Dreamstone Mysteries, the first HM you get is Splash.

Nah, he’s still got a dojo thing going. I’m thinking more Larry from SV if he had a gym.

Nah nah, we aren’t allowed to do wind and solar anymore. The US president is paying a shitload of money to a lot of companies to stop them from developing renewables in the US and abroad.

With a side helping of “please give us another long, drawn-out war so we can milk the last drops of cash from the government via the MIC”.

While this is true, the FBI and the DoJ have the power to quite literally just go “make me” when ordered to produce evidence or cooperate. This administration has a very fun habit of simply ignoring anything they don’t like, and I expect that even a federal court order, even one from the Supreme Court if it comes to that, will not get them to do a damn thing.

I recommend Skate Bird.

Don’t forget college sports. If your parents are early Gen X or Boomers, college sports weren’t quite as big a deal - they weren’t quite as commercialized until the mid-80s, which started salaries for coaches and staff flying.

In many states, the highest paid public employee is a college football coach.

Horrible fact I learned from a podcast: during a hurricane in 1935, to escape a 20-ft storm surge, a man climbed up to the top of one (keep in mind, the tree is toxic enough that just standing under one while it’s raining can give you blisters) and lashed himself to it to avoid drowning, because it was the only tall tree left (even chopping one down requires a lot of prep and careful work to not aerosolize the toxins).

He lived, reportedly.

I’ll do you one worse, because the US coastal South and Caribbean has a tree that kills you if you touch it, the manchineel.