Correct. Giving meaningful choices is hard.

Choice can’t exist without information. If you know nothing, you can’t chose. If two doors are perfectly the same, it’s not a choice. If you have no information on either path in the forest, you’re not really choosing.

Nothing, but they got paid for lots and lots of houses and offices. And that a problem.

The Doolittle raid is the perfect example of a PR move, because it was insanely expensive and did very little. It cost 16 planes and their crews, and took very expensive ships out of the running for months. BUT despite doing basically no damage, made Japan bring 2 carriers away from Midway to take a couple of tiny islands to prevent bomber bases being built on them.

As far as we know, this basically took some RHIBs and troops on foot. Way less than the Doolittle Raid. Unfortunately it’s likely we’ll never know the effect this had, or how many of these raids take place.

This is really only a raid, Ukraine has no ability to supply troops by sea, nor the ability to even land enough troops to hold territory.

But the fact that they did this means that Russian “rear” area security is absolute shit, and they have the option to improve that (taking forces from reserves or the fromt) or suffer more rear area raids.

in freefall.

Like Spez cares about little things like “passion” and being “factually correct”.

I only regret I can’t hear them talking about it. Nobody has words for “what?” like the Australians.

we’ve had generations of Americans come and go without the need* of unions,

Thanks to the work of the unions formed by the generations before them.

Try something simple in Windows like setting custom keyboard shortcuts… insanely frustrating.

You can set macro’s under Mouse and Keyboard center (though only in win11, welcome to 1995 Microsoft!) You can set a keyboard shortcut for a program under a shortcut’s properties (since at least a couple of editions ago).

You can absolutely have free speech, but nobody is forced to actually listen to you.

Which is good, because in the real world, every place that has “zero censorship” rapidly devolves into a Nazi invested shithole.

Just defederate the Meta instances, and your problem is solved, right?

It’s not like saying “I wish this awesome little bar is a McDonald’s” but “I don’t want to go to a bar in a city that also has a McDonalds”.

As long as I get to cram all those accounts into a single portal or app, that’s fine by me. I dislike having to look at multiple places to get slightly different variants of the same content.