That's supremely condescending. You could help me understand but instead you're literally just doing what you say others do, assuming anyone who doesn't believe the same way you do isn't thinking about it long enough.
Uncritical American Leftists (and Europeans when they want to look down on America) say that all the time, holding up Europe as the epitome of what America should be. There's no straw man there. It's especially bad when you're talking to somebody spouting that nonsense, and ask them how the Europeans feel about Romanis. Suddenly it's not racism, it's realism.
For the record, I lean left on most issues.
Edit: Wow, there's already someone saying it elsewhere in this very comment section!
I kind of thought half the reason for the class based system was to appeal to specific fantasies/wish fulfillments, though. My first thought concerning this problem is that maybe they're playing the wrong caster class, different classes exist for different fantasies.
It's my personal belief that the mechanics of the caster classes don't lend themselves well to the fantasy of it.
That's him. I've only ever seen a middle-eastern Jesus displayed in my church building once, but it looked much better than this one. I wish we didn't use this depiction as much as we do.
Any time an android phone I own gets older than, say, a year, the volume controls get more and more sluggish. I feel like it's a form of planned obsolescence, but I haven't ever heard of anyone else talking about it.
Public service announcement: this article seems to be written like their only source was asking Bard some questions. If you trust Bard enough to tell you Google's plans, you may as well be asking it when the second coming is happening, because it'll be just as confident when it hallucinates that answer too.
LMAO I opened the link expecting an article, and I got a steady flow of quotations, but nothing to indicate who is being quoted. At the very end, the sentence "For its part, Bard states..." is used, and I can think of no clearer way to display your fundamental misunderstanding of AI. Bard can't "state" shit in any official capacity. Bard is the same caliber of LLM as GPT, and both have a documented tendency to hallucinate.
I don't know if anybody answered your question, lemmy is weird about replies deleted or not showing. AD is Active Duty, which is anyone in the federal component of the military i.e. not guardsmen. "Active" means full-time, and most guardsmen are one-weekend a month, so they are not active. It's a little fuzzy, because if a guardsman is on full time orders, depending on where the money is coming from, it could be called AGR, or Active Guard Reserve, but they are not technically Active Duty (AD).
All you really need to know is that AD is just the Big Army or Big Air Force, paid for and run by the federal government, and the national guard is distinct from AD because of split loyalty to state and federal govt, and they are usually paid by the state. Otherwise, same regulations, same uniforms, same bad leadership.
Then where is the negotiation? The surgical strikes done only when they know exactly where the terrorist is? Where is the care for the former hostages that survive the encounter? The days-long standoff, where no action is taken for fear of killing Innocents? If the IDF were so good at it, why are they doing nothing we've come to expect of a professional anti-terror team? What of the harassment of even the people fleeing Gaza? How is that not anything less than genocide? They should be better than this, and you should too.
Even if Hamas was lying about there being some of their number present at a given airstrike, how many Palestinian lives are worth sacrificing to hit one Hamas?
Every time a terrorist or nut job takes a building full of innocents hostage in nearly any other society, people who are trained to minimize casualties are brought in. With the way the IDF is handling their invasion, they would more likely bomb a building because there might be a terrorist, and that's giving them a significant benefit of the doubt that they aren't just explicitly killing innocent Gazans.
That's supremely condescending. You could help me understand but instead you're literally just doing what you say others do, assuming anyone who doesn't believe the same way you do isn't thinking about it long enough.