throwaway33432

this stuff is vastly easier than traditional weapons development.

if you're in a precarious political position, a homegrown entity that produces these tools can quickly become a threat; the citizens you train/employ will have their own political ambitions, nationalistic tendencies, empathy for their fellow citizens, etc.

there are most certainly situations where it's safer to just outsource your natsec/tradecraft to an entity that only cares about their bottom line.

70%~ of women in the US are overweight or obese. within the US, the amount of physically attractive women is steadily decreasing.

I would think that the regulations around childcare/childbirth in the third world are basically nil.

if I don't provide for my children in America, I enter the legal system.

debt is likely acquired with the degree; fields that skew female are also low-paying.

that's basically it: debt is not attractive.

intelligence has a hereditary component; social status and wealth correlate with intelligence.

There's no cession of power from governments to corporations; consider the recurrent social media hearings in DC, which as far I can tell are effectively just the bullying of CEOs to censor less/more.

Even this latest Delta, Coca-Cola, etc. seems to be just bullying: https://twitter.com/AmyBeePhoenix/status/1379295393301868546

It's just an upheaval of the elite.

In some manner, pursuing a strategy that allows you to end the world allows you to stave off ending the world.

Think of it through the lens of an iterated prisoner's dilemma: if I suddenly develop deathbots and you don't have them, it changes the payoffs for defection/cooperation which could cause me to change strategies and kill you.

I would recommend Axelrod's book "The Evolution of Cooperation" for ideas surrounding this.

A JIT will write to memory and then turn the executable bit on.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W%5EX

freedom of association isn't really a thing anymore; if one were to promote that maxim, a large portion of the civil rights laws, anti-discrimination laws, etc. just become unenforceable.

see stuff akin to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masterpiece_Cakeshop_v._Colora...