Oh I get it.

Yeah running countries is a series of shitty compromises, unless you are small enough to gain consensus.

The drone strikes thing is a bad example. If he didn’t touch it, individual combat units could use drones with impunity. He required drone strikes to be approved by his office.

Tell me if you had the choice between sending in boots to kill a guy, or drone strike, would you really ever risk your guys getting shot?

He added red tape, the minimum thing he could do. I’ll agree with criticism that he did the bare minimum, but all these comments about this frame it like he was horny for drones. That’s reductive and misleading.

No lol

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I wouldn’t hire anybody with a terrible futon, good call cropping it out.

Probably testing spam response rates and mechanisms. There’s some security concerns here.

Send mass PMs with a single blurry picture, look disinterested, and don’t bother with any sort of personalization.

Having a personality is a turn-off for men, I’ve heard.

That’s great that you did lose weight, glad you feel better even if you haven’t met your goal yet

Good job

For everyone, I’d like to point out that the bones on this man were the same size, carrying 150kg vs carrying 100kg. They would continue to be the same size at 70 or 60kg.

Imagine, the next time you wonder how fat people have poor health outcomes: the same 10 square centimeters of bone in the legs could be carrying 40, 50, or a full 100 kg of weight. Or worse, the cross section of cartilage between the bones. Or worse. More weight than that.

they’re trainable

This does work from experience. It also obligates you to be the person that puts energy and work into the relationship without it ever being reciprocated.

At any point you can decide that it’s not worth it anymore, OP. It’s completely fair to decide that this minute or 5 years from now.

quieter, and uses way less power.

VERY IMPORTANT PAY ATTENTION TO THIS SENTENCE OP

You are an idiot if you think that children won’t be exploited. There needs to be specific work her3 restrictions for this position to be anywhere near reasonable. Did you look up if there are work hour restrictions? Did you look up anything? If not shut up and let adults talk.

Awww that’s nice

You could do it half way right now

Maybe learn greenscreening

Too many people with twin fetishism to bother with murder.

Even if you are wrong this is a hilarious characterisation

100%

I trust a person I’m having a coherent conversation with more than search results. Presumably, when you are speaking about these things you have first hand knowledge of reputable people and organisations.

I agree that saddling random people with the responsibility of educating people is not good, but I don’t see what can be done while we have this I guess… Credibility crisis? Or something?

That’s fair.

For the astroturfing thing, profiles and engagement is faked on social media right now. I’m trying to find the news source, there was some think tank a while back that had a completely made up persona as CEO or something.

https://www.forbes.com/councils/forbestechcouncil/2024/02/01/fake-people-ruining-the-real-world-finance-might-have-an-ai-problem/

“just Google it” in this case is a bit rough, an able bodied person is not going to recognise actual advocacy sources vs industry publications

Astroturfing and SEO are making search engines useless also.

Theoretically we could find a way to reverse things before we’re all dead.