Well, what I was saying is they “could”, and thus they are technically holding back. So thier failure to take Ukraine doesn’t prove they can’t take on Nato minus the US. And even now, it is still technically NATO, including the US. So their inability to take it isn’t the same as taking on NATO without the US. I don’t know if Ukraine could have held up without US money and such. Not sure the EU had enough to spare at the time. I know the EU is looking to increase production to reduce it’s reliance on the US, but I am not sure how far they have gotten.

The new one will be “claude is pondering”

Seems all you need to use to get the threat of the insurrection act is a snow shovel. Go big or go home I say. And even without it, he deployed marines in so cal.

Well TIL. I though they couldn’t make them that small back then. But anyway, the russians were producing the latest version of small tactical nukes in the 20 teens. Those are pretty new.

What I would like to see is local organizations, like even city councils, running programs to arm thier citizens. Ideally with free training and such as a requirement. Super awesome would be if they setup shop near protest sites to do some basic training and then sell the weapons to the people legally for like $10 or something. Essentially, legally and responsibly arm the protestors. If ICE starts shooting, they return fire. That should really give ICE pause.

I will say I don’t know what Russia specifically has in thier arsenal beyond the general “tactical nukes”. But artillery shell or missle… it makes little difference. Tactical nukes are relatively new, so aren’t much of an age concern as the bigger older stuff. Functionality concerns, only they really know. And I agree, which is why I said they are holding back. But if the situation changes, they may not need to hold back.

The tactical ones are a grey area. They can be small enough not to end the world. They can also have far less long term effects than the larger and older ones. In short, you could nuke a military base as apposed to a city. They can be delivered as an artilery shell. So if Russia used one. I doubt the world would immediately luanch thier strategic arsenal in response.

Apparently neither did the US founding fathers… checks and balances my ass.

Well, Russia is sort of holding back. They have tactical nukes, not sure how many of those nato has without the US. And going ballistic doesn’t end well for anyone. But Russia need the land of major nato members. They will pick on non-nato countries mostly, and more often they will do it by cutting off trade routes and such. Maybe they use thier now seasoned military to pick off some minor nato members, just to distract Nato from everything else. With the US pulling back from the international stage, Russia and Chine can divvy up a lot of the world.

Well of course it should be simpler, the employer should put a stop to it without even requiring a complaint. Aside from it being the right thing to do, allowing it opens them to all sorts of liability. So obviously the employer isn’t very bright. The rest was part joke, and part a way to possibly play nice and still get what she wanted. Only someone who knows him would know if it would work or make things worse. So I could have put your milage may vary, but I thought that was kind of obvious.

Well in this case it probably isn’t money he is after, but attention and fame. That said, just tell him you had a past “incident” you don’t like to talk about, but that your image shouldn’t be on anything that might give away your current location. Lol.

True, but this time he is clearly in decline, so republicans have far less to gain by keeping him, and plenty to gain by tossing him. He has been working to undermine plenty in his own party be “primarying” them. I think the majority of republicans in congress want him gone, but are just afraid to be the one that steps forward unless they all do…

True, but this time he is clearly in decline, so republicans have far less to gain by keeping him, and plenty to gain by tossing him. He has been working to undermine plenty in his own party be “primarying” them. I think the majority of republicans in congress want him gone, but are just afraid to be the one that steps forward unless they all do…

Midterm elections followed by impeachment.

You really have to split it up. Teachers and nurses have always been paid pretty poorly. They were traditionally female only professions, and expected only to work until married or what not. Or they were nuns, and didn’t get paid directly. Doctors of course, being traditionally male only got paid a lot better. But I agree that for most of human history, professional athletes were just rich peoples kids. They weren’t even getting paid most likely. It would be interesting to try and figure out who the first true professional athlete was. Someone who wasn’t born into money, and actually got paid a living wage.

Well of course. If you give it a short prompt, and it generates a story, that isn’t going to be anything of value. But if you give it long prompts and have it give you ten different sets of three sentences that could follow, you have a goid shot that one of those either fits what you were thinking but couldn’t get in words, or will stimulate a better sentence in your mind. It can be a block breaker. Don’t ask it for whole stories, just sentences or paragraphs. Or even just to reword some thing you wrote if you don’t like how it flowed.

I realized that my stories focus on events. But if you look at published stories, they focus on people, and the events are only a backdrop. So I can’t see many people caring about my stories.

I would say, I do enjoy riddles, so this will be fun. But I am concerned that if you think my skill at riddles is critical, that it may mean your management has gotten used to not fully thinking through the objectives they give and how those objectives interact with the existing systems or other objectives. That would result in the kind of product that looks like the right hand doesn’t know what the left is doing. If that is your reasoning for the question, how is the company countering it to create a coherent product.

And the reason I might say this is tgat in my experience, companies who ask such questions aren’t the kind I want to work for.

The old fashion way. Inherit it. Our the really really old fashion way. Fraud.

For the most part, the owner class does have a job. They have to buy and sell the things they own. They have to maintain relationships so they can get a better deal. And they gave to use thier influence to increase the value of what they own. It’s all fake work of course. It doesn’t increase the productive output overall. But it is a job. And pretty much full time at that.

The real answer is to be the kid of one of these people. Then you can make your money the old fashion way, inherit it.