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No lock is “high security”, but Abloy are better than most.

I mean with Portugal, I remember reading a book about conscripts being used to defend colonies and putting down rebellions of locals in Africa and such. For that sort of bullshit I agree, conscription is not the way to go. But for purely defensive purposes, I do not see anything bad about conscription. But thats me with my Finnish background, we havent gone to other lands trying to conquer places. We’ve fought mostly defensive wars, in which the survival of the nation was at stake. The only time we went on a offensive, was to get back areas we lost a few years before. So obviously there is a difference in thinking there and I completely understand the reluctance of places, that used their military to go out and about, to have conscription back. So perhaps the way to do it is to make the laws so that it would be illegal to use conscripts in a non-defensive operations. Like, if Portugal wants to take part in bombing some militants in a ex-colony, that has to be done by volunteers etc. Even russia does (or pretends to do) it like that, I don’t know if they changed it yet, but at least it used to be so that conscripts were not allowed to be sent outside russian borders.

And back to US, what I meant is that once a weapons program is done, its done. Of course they go on for years, even decades, but sometimes they don’t. I wasn’t really arguing that they are not a waste of money, most of them are, mostly, a waste of money. But once they end, they end. Paying pensions and stuff only ends when the person dies. But of course, people live longer than weapons R&D programs, some R&D programs live longer than people. But I think we agree that both are a huge cost and both are kind of unnecessary in different ways. Weapons programs are unnecessary because most of them are completely useless or dead ends, paying soldiers is unnecessary because the US doesn’t have to go and start bombing Iran, they choose to do so and it costs a stupid amount for a long time.

And a final point on the conscription, I’m not saying that its good. I’m saying it MIGHT be necessary. At least in some capacity. Maybe having a purely defensive force is the way to go, like I said, make it illegal for the government to send soldiers to fight, unless they were attacked first. But of course the politicians will find a way around that. Its a complicated subject and I tend to not get into it too much, because I don’t live in these other countries, I don’t know the history, I don’t know the culture. All I know is that our defensive conscription model works for us and it works extremely well for us and nobody wants to get rid of it. But like I said, I completely understand that other places are a bit suspicious about it and I won’t blame them.

Failed weapon system R&D costs are kind of one time thing. With military pensions and health care costs the US is paying like 700 billion $ every year. I’m not saying they shouldn’t pay that, I’m saying perhaps they should downsize a tiny bit. Maybe stop getting into wars all the time.

The thing is, for a country that attacks others, like the US, volunteer army is of course the way to go. You couldn’t do what the US is doing with a conscription army. For countries that have a military for defensive purposes, like the Finnish Defense Forces, conscription is a good thing (and for Finland, you can check the support for conscription, the majority support it and are happy to keep it).

The countries that are getting backlash from bringing conscription back are places like Germany, where people are a bit weird about that, for understandable reasons, sort of. But it does seem like they think that they might slip back into nazism at any point if they are careful, which is a bit weird if you ask me.

Anyway, Germany is not bringing conscription back because they want to go abroad and fight futile wars, they are planning on doing that because the security situation in Europe has changed, thanks mainly to russia attacking Ukraine and doing annoying hybrid warfare stuff, and also a bit because the US is being unstable, unpredictable and unreliable ally.

I think a huge chunk of the US budget goes to the pay, pension, healthcare for the military personnel. I guess that’s a downside of having a huge military that is not conscripted, one that you have to actually pay. Also they have to pay them well and offer stuff like healthcare, pensions etc, to lure in people.

Just be happy that you don’t have moron uncles :D

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A few days, maybe a week ago, my uncle said, in desperation, “but they promised to fix the fuel prices!” Without thinking I sort of muttered to myself, “and you believed them like a fucking moron.” Good thing I’m a bit bigger than him, I’m pretty sure he would have punched me if I were any smaller lol.

Where I am from, they’ve been doing that for a few decades now. We get snow and windy autumns, so trees fall on the lines, snapping them, leaving tens of thousands without electricity. Also the snow packs on the branches of the trees, making them either snap or just sort of lean on the power lines, snapping them, leaving tens of thousands without electricity in -25C degree weather.

I see your point, but something as simple as cutting a section of a video file should be quite easy to do, even with the most complicated software anyone can find.

There would have to be so many exceptions, that its just easier to make separate deals.

Like, take just cars, trucks and trucking, the EU and Canada regulations, requirements and laws are different enough that Canada would have to do some major changes with those alone and it would cost a whole bunch of moneys. Or they’d have to make an exception rule for that.

Stuff like weight, lengths, headlights, headlight heights, truck driver work limits, vehicle/equipment certification process etc would need to be changed. Or given exceptions.

If I were to keep up with all the conflicts in the world, I wouldn’t have time to do anything else. So I prioritize. The war russia launched against Ukraine is the closest and affects me the most, so I pay the most attention to that.

One of those cases where a old law was never over turned.

russia at its peak was comparable to Italy by their GDP, militarily they have always had a lot of equipment and men but they were never anything more than a regional power.

Yeah, times are changing and russia has been making all the wrong decisions.

Ukraine is indeed doing well. But russia is not a superpower, never was. There was a time when the Soviet Union was a superpower, for a while. But that was in the 1960s, maybe a bit in the 1970s.

The amount of money they’d receive from selling drones to some rebels would be tiny compared to the reputational loss and diplomatic issues they’d have if they did it. A country that is fighting for its survival cant afford to have international diplomacy problems just to get some tens or hundreds of thousands of drone selling money. Especially when you consider that a lot of their foreign fighters are from Colombia and they have considerable support from Colombians.

Your hunches are, sorry to be so blunt, completely moronic and quite ignorant.

Right… so how would Ukraine benefit from supplying groups fighting against Colombia?

Why would Ukraine supply them with drones? What on earth would they benefit from doing that?

Well obviously. At no point did I suggest that IRC can do everything Discord can, or that it can replace the things Discord does. All I said is that it exists and works well.