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How do you make people care before it’s too late?

none of my co-workers care

You can’t force another to care. We can educate them with facts and reason while trusting them to make their own choices. And, that isn’t done in a workplace, instead one on one in presence of a human relationship.

But, if you insist, then there’s always a way. Read the Bible as part of a Bible study to develop a nuanced understanding of its message. Relate that message to social democrat, socialist, communist, and anarchist ideology. Determine the relevant Bible passages useful in the specific situations you encounter with specific Christians, then memorize those passages. Then, in full context of Bible and situation, in the moment, quote the passage. Finally, shut up and wait.

Voyager allows blocking of the instance whole while allowing specific communities.

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I’m about to say the same thing differently.

Eliminating .world filters the majority of the propaganda and bad faith users. What remains is leftist because once we pierce through the propaganda and bad faith, we all agree that left is human.

We’ve three core groups: social democrats, authoritarian socialists & communists, and libertarian socialists & communists. Each focuses on a different part of our timeline. Respectively: the present, the means to overcome the human paradigm, and the ideal solution as we understand it.

Edit: I left out anarchists, whom are often my favorite group. They never get the respect they deserve. I apologize for contributing to that.

Not sure if that would really lead to (quaterly) economic growth though.

Regarding war and money, the question often isn’t who’s positioned to gain the most, instead who’s positioned to lose the least. We often don’t measure self against history and reason, instead relative our competitors.

Taiwan seems the obvious candidate.

The US has already manufactured consent to have a proxy war with China. I assume we’ve not done it in Taiwan because we’d lose more on trade than we’d gain consuming weapons, perhaps also because China could absorb the loss of Taiwan as a trade partner better than the US.

But where?

To be determined. We’re ready and waiting for an opportunity to present itself.

Register and account on another instance that passes the litmus test of federation with .ml and hexbear. Block .world on that new account. Don’t block all those instances .world told you to blindly hate.

No, we are not headed for WW3.

The military-industrial complex must be fed, our weapons sold or used. But, a large magnitude hot war has far more social and economic risk and not enough return on investment relative the alternative of multiple proxy wars. We’ve currently proxy wars in Israel and Ukraine. Economic growth is optimized by beginning a proxy war with China.

If Trump was smart then he might internally convince others in his administration to diplomatically and operationally over-commit. Then we could have WW3. But, he’s a puppet ruling by fear. We’ve been fighting our proxy wars since Reagan. Trump isn’t capable of overcoming capitalism’s mandate for optimized growth.

I’m not an expert but know enough to converse. As I understand it:

The B-1 should be more expensive to fly than the B-52 because of its variable wing geometry and the nature of its engine. But, we spent a boatload of cash to make the B-1 cheaper. We put soft constraints on the performance envelope in mission design then optimized the aircraft for it.

We didn’t update the B-52 because it was far more expensive: replace 8 engines designed in the 1950s with 2 or 4 modern engines, requiring redesign of wing, tail, and cockpit, as well as manufacturing of old parts due to scarcity. If we’d spent for engine modernization then it’d be cheaper to fly because that style of airfrane is almost always cheaper to fly than an airframe that can comfortably sustain Mach 1. It’d even be cheaper to fly for the B-1 mission because we don’t ask the B-1 to leverage the Mach 1 speed it was designed for.

It’s shit like this that helps my civilian self understand the meaning of FUBAR. A rare example of a well-run program is the C-130.

I’m convinced the B-1 is only still around because building more B-52’s isn’t profitable to the MIC.

I went digging and what I found surprised me.

2010 numbers.

B-1 $63k / flight hour

B-52 $72k

B-2 $135k

JDAMs, dumb bombs made smart, are primarily the B-1 role. Higher tech munitions are primarily the B-52 role.

I think that when they want it done cheap they use the B-1.

Undergrad. You’ve no degree and no work experience. Perhaps the most important thing you’re going to learn from this project is humility.