Censorship of speech is a powerful tool. Why, if you have the true conviction of your beliefs, would you fight with one hand behind your back?
Yes, but have you considered the outcome of everyone doing this?
Moreover, I’ve seen no evidence in my lifetime that letting my ideological opponents speak leads to positive results.
Mmmmm, yes. All ideological opponents should be silenced. This is clearly the way.
Seriously, if this is what you believe then you are clearly stating that you have no interest in a Free Society. You are literally placing yourself in the same group with every other Tyrant, Authoritarian, and Fascists who needs to be resisted.
Free Societies must tolerate dissent, it is a foundational requirement.
f the reason EE is shutting down due to lack of staff why would anyone go to a smaller one/one run by a single person?
Small instances can have far less drama and workload. Just because an instance isn't popular and has a small admin team doesn't mean it's in danger of folding up. 😀
If you are looking for a small and stable instance you should evaluate lemmy.today. It's hosted in the U.S. (Pacific North West) and has a high degree of federation.
If HR isn't asking candidates about themselves as a person, or is only asking generic "Tell me about yourself" kinds of questions, then **they are doing it wrong. **
On the other side if a candidate doesn't have any questions about their future work environment, not just the role they applied for, then they too are doing it wrong. A candidate should care about whether they would fit into an environment / culture.
At its core employment is a relationship and both sides should treat it that way.
Seems like poVoq@slrpnk.net needs an internet monitoring plug. If the internet stops responding it will power cycle any devices that are plugged into it. Handy for edge devices that occasionally stroke out.
The tracking and fire control systems already exist. The show stopper right now in 2025 is the cost; mostly because the needed missiles are ungodly expensive and you need so many of them.
The most conservative estimate I've seen for the IDs intercept rate is 80% and many sources claim 90% or even 95%. I'm am not a fan of the Israeli Government but its beyond question that the ID system does an excellent job at countering the threat it was designed to handle.
IIRC that's eithera damaged fuel pump diaphragm or a sticking auto choke valve. Either way its like 10 minutes and less than 1$ to fix using a common Phillips screwdriver.
I know for a fact that parts of it can be built now. Everyone is in these comments trying to pretend that its still 1983 (the year Reagan announced SDI) while ignoring the fact that PATRIOT, NIKE, and THAAD have existed for two decades. Never mind that DE M-SHORAD, DRAGONFIRE and some others are already in production in various countries.
This ain't 1983. Many things considered impossible 42 years ago are so routine in 2025 that we take them for granted.
The "Golden Dome" system is almost certainly more bullshit from Trump not because it's infeasible but because we can't afford to build it. At least not right now.
What Trump is pitching is the same snake oil Reaganite “Star Wars” program that was scrapped 30 years ago.
SDI never really ended and research on the core technologies continue to this day. Things like Patriot and NIKE came out of the program some 20 years ago and we're now starting to get the energy weapon systems that Reagan envisioned.
The Israeli Iron Dome can’t beat Yemeni intercontinental bottle rockets, nevermind Iranian SCUD missiles.
Iron Dome does an amazingly good job at defending from the threats it was designed to handle. It wasn't meant to deal with MRBM or ICBM threats.
These programs don’t meaningfully protect a country that is under bombardment.
Effective defense from MRBM and ICBM attack has been technically possible for nearly two decades however installing a GBMD system of that size would bankrupt the United States several times over. The missiles it uses are a hundred million a piece if IIRC and we'd need tens of thousands of them.
What's changed is that Ground Based Directed Energy Weapons of sufficient power, a direct result of SDI, to interdict ICBMS will be available in the near future. The US Military is already fielding lower power systems like the DE M-SHORAD and everyone from Lockheed to Raytheon has 1MW (or higher) GBDEW systems starting testing this year.
Hell the British already have their Dragonfire system, rated at 300KW, not only built but scheduled to be put on Navy Vessels in 2027 and the US Navy has had a system like this for nearly a decade already.
The fantasy of missile defense only escalates these conflicts.
Missile defense isn't a fantasy, the short range version has been around for a long while now. Medium and Long Range has been possible for two decades it's just been wildly unaffordable at scale. That is about to change.
Yes, but have you considered the outcome of everyone doing this?
Mmmmm, yes. All ideological opponents should be silenced. This is clearly the way.
Seriously, if this is what you believe then you are clearly stating that you have no interest in a Free Society. You are literally placing yourself in the same group with every other Tyrant, Authoritarian, and Fascists who needs to be resisted.
Free Societies must tolerate dissent, it is a foundational requirement.