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This is essentially the Trolley Problem.


No it's just harder to accurately tax each and every form of wealth so we proxy it by taxing income.


Syria, Libya, Kosovo probably more I am just naming the ones off the top of my head.


"started by" here was used to indicate that there was not already a shooting war in progress.


If you want to get technical, the US hasn't been involved in a war since WW2. See how annoying that is?

No more wars means stop putting Americans at risk to kill foreigners.


If you're going to get technical, you need to pick apart the AUMF for Iraq.

In any case, I personally don't think the US interventions in Bosnia or Haiti rose to the level of the colloquial understanding of "no more wars." This is to the extent that the public of 2024 was even broadly aware of those interventions.

Major point is this: in the last 50 years, every GOP president has started a trillion-dollar boondoggle in the Middle East that led to hundreds of thousands of deaths or more (count is still running in Iran, which the President credibly threatens to nuke every other week). Democratic presidents have initiated e.g. peacekeeping missions or the like with definite endpoints and missions. "Both sides" elides all of this as if they are the remotely equivalent.

(I'm on record suggesting that the US military should be reduced to a footprint necessary to defend only the US states and not foreign interests. 75%+ cuts in budget as a start. 11 carrier battle groups to ~4, two per coast. etc.)


> Democratic presidents have initiated e.g. peacekeeping missions or the like with definite endpoints and missions.

You can play word games all you want, this is what people care about:

https://dcas.dmdc.osd.mil/dcas/app/summaryData/deaths/byYear...


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Arguably that's honestly worse since he knew and was disingenuous in order to push a perspective that isn't valid.


Link me a video I want to be informed if this is actually the case.


This guy's story covers both (the crazy illegal actions and the nuclear weapons program.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mordechai_Vanunu


Apologies, I meant the chanting, the nuclear thing is well documented but yes thanks for the link to that.



Iran has conflicting values and has never stopped funding groups that violently support their view even when Obama was president so this is a very myopic view to take.


As you say it can be done but it's an anti-pattern to use a message queue as a database which is essentially what you are doing for these kinds of long running tasks. The reason is that their are a lot of state your likely going to want to status as a task runs and persist and checkpoint yes you can carefully string together a series of database calls chained with message transactions so you don't lose something when an issue happens but then you also need bespoke logic to restart or retry each step and it can turn into a bit of a mess.


Nope, just the Ministry of Truth, God doesn't even have to get involved.


Gifted programs aren't perfect, simply holding students accountable regardless of gifted status would be better. However skin color seems like the dumbest metric to use to hold these programs accountable and has little to do with students test scores so it's highly doubtful that managing your school based on that is going to have a positive outcome.


Just rank by date needed order on a kanban board and work your way through everything in order. If it's constant fight to meet deadlines it will be clear enough that things are backed up.


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