They will not use their massive amount of money and resources to create a society that eliminates the conditions that generate criminal behavior (scarcity, no communal support systems, etc.), but they will do this shit.

Though not a single word, I’ve always loved picket fence

try this in userchrome:

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This is correct, armies can do well in defending populations. The issue is that wars tend to cause more of what they are trying to solve/prevent. For example, Nazism rising out of the aftermath of WWI. Authoritarian/aggressive USSR/Russia rising out of the west’s reaction to the socialistic revolution of 1917.

I think that, ideally, armies should be converted to be a positive force of cooperation (for example helping people all across the world with self-sufficient and sustainable local agriculture), instead of an aggressive/destructive one (of course, this can not realistically happen in the current way the world works, but I’m talking theoretically)

You are absolutely right, and I do believe that the vast majority of soldiers worldwide are well-intentioned and doing what they’re doing for perceived right reasons. What I’m getting at is that, generally speaking, wars do not actually solve the underlying issues they are purportedly trying to fix. The Nazi ideas are still with us to this day. The North Korean regime is still a threat to its own people and others. Armies should be a deescalating force, building bridges between nations.

Also, they didn’t even “die for you”. That’s a lie they’ve been sold - they died protecting corporate/imperialistic agendas. They died for the upper class.

edit: and it also implies that we are safer - but we are not. There’s no true conflict resolution through military means. The conflicts are “maintained”, simmering/enhancing until they boil over.

Or send their goon squad to your IRL location to beat some sense into you

lending any of your texts, voice, image, writings, etc. to any AI tools

I would think an even worse scenario would be having your entire brain mapped and uploaded, with everything you ever said/experienced/thought/felt/seen/etc. available to whoever. We should be able to take stuff to our graves.

I can only add my own personal experience - generally I can only stomach water in small amounts. It just doesn’t go down as smoothly as other drinks (juice for me). It feels like my mouth/throat rejects it a tiny bit.

(for reference, I drink some filtered tap water after every cup of juice)

In my wild dreams I see them carrying out a positive version of the Business Plot

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