So you need ChatGPT to get a helpful answer.

MS 1 : Google 0

They had to. If life in western Europe would have been worse than in eastern Europe, people would have elected communists.

If you don’t come to America, America comes to you.

Those were concessions to look good compared to communist countries. There is no need for a good impression anymore.

Yes, that’s not the point.

two things are similar so you don’t really have strong feelings either way.

Acceptance or rejection, no strong feelings either way.

Maybe that’s what they are saying? They impartially judged the application, without strong feelings. Ironically.

The candle was needed.

No finished project without some force that provided the focus to get it done.

How can any feeling of accomplishment fill the mind when there is the bad feeling of being forced?

Turned out the castles, or burges, are not that empty and don’t need a king to serve.

join-lemmy.org could show the posts from all, with a big join button at the top. The introduction page can be shown if somebody presses the join button.

There is one server implementation that shows it to its users. I forgot its name though.

Also biiiiiiiiiicycle

Trump announced his plans the previous day to develop the multilayered, $175 billion (€155 billion) system with ground- and space-based capabilities that can defend against a wide range of enemy weapons

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Martin_F-35_Lightning_II_development

the program was expected over its lifetime (until 2070) to cost $406.5 billion for acquisition of the jets and $1.1 trillion for operations and maintenance.

How? Hypersonic missiles should make it more difficult.

Add automation for cheap production costs and any defence system can be overwhelmed.

Knowledge can be a status symbol like clothing. People show what they know if they can signal their status with it.

In that form, knowledge is not verified by own thoughts. The value of the knowledge comes from the reputation of the source and the value of the people who agree with it.

So far, what do you think ADHD is?

That door is locked.

The cartoon is apt. It’s even worse. Pilots don’t fly without the approval of airline management.

The door to the cockpit is locked. If there has been a discussion or if there is just this vote, the powerlessness of those regular passengers shows that anti-intellectualism is an isolated problem. It only looks dangerous to those who don’t remember the locked door.

How should a secret society remove such a video without silencing the author?

https://xkcd.com/1425/

It is easier to do the above three things. Removing a video draws attention to it because the author will post it on other channels. Other people will upload it to check the claim that it is removed.

It’s much easier to drown a problematic video in other content so that only few people discover it. So some people know the real truth, but nobody believes them or cares about them.