Still a better system than Boston, having navigated both MANY times. To call Boston’s streets a “system” is an insult to the very concept of order.

As someone who drives through Boston often: it’s the worst-planned city I’ve ever seen. I am fairly convinced that the underground tunnel system is actually creating an eldritch sigil of chaos (a la Good Omens), and it is not uncommon to encounter a seven-way intersection, where two of those ways are train lines, but aren’t marked, so at night, you can accidentally find yourself on train tracks. It’s like if someone bargained with the Fey to make a city.

Haha, fair!

I have one, and while the actual hardware features are nice, the constant overheating and incredibly slow responses on the phone are reminiscent of a brick laptop from the early '00s. I am instead just running e/OS on an old pixel 4a (since it still has a headphone jack)

Sounds like you should invest in additional pockets. They’re pretty great.

Honestly, even if you weren’t going to use the extra space for a second phone, you should invest in less-limited pocket space.

This, but off camera, so he can’t make any money.

Slavery wasn’t outlawed. It was nationalised. Slavery is legal for any person incarcerated for a crime. This is why we have mandatory minimum sentencing. The whole prison system is a method of acquiring free labor that the government pays you to house on metal beds and feed with slop. Alabama has made it an art form, leasing prisoners out to fast food restaurants, taking half their pay, and then refusing them parole.

Since the person above didn’t actually give enough information for someone to understand:

Look up “Acid Mine Drainage”. Its when sulfide minerals react with water and oxygen to produce sukfuric acid, and it occurs in pretty much every mine once it’s opened, and continues to accrue and leak for thousands of years. Ancient Roman mines are still leaking the toxic, acidic sludge today, and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future.

Not when the vast majority of music rights holders are not the artists. Then it becomes a far more apt comparison.

1. if you’re talking about the US, then “we” were definitively not at war with the Nazis for three years at that point, nor had the OSS done anything paperclip-related at that point. You might need to get the part of your brain responsible for subtraction checked, because the united states went to war with Germany and Italy on December 11th, 1941. The OSS was founded 6 months afterward. This manual was created 2 years and 1 month after the US entered the war. Operation Paperclip would be put into effect about a year and a half later, when the US realised it was actually pushing into Germany, and there were a bunch of scientists with loose morals who could see which way the wind was blowing, and who were happy to tell them in which random mine shaft they hid all their rocketry research.

2. I actually tend to agree that the time for changing things from the inside has passed. I’m just annoyed at your apparent inability to comprehend numbers and their significance. Also, your refusal to even acknowledge that the whole purpose of the OSS at its inception was to infiltrate and fight the fascists. It’s not some “Paragon”, it’s just what they were tasked with, and they did it.

3. the idea that the US Government had nothing to do with the end of a fascist regime after this thing was published is laughable, but I suppose it makes sense if you can’t get your years straight. That must be very confusing for you.

4. as I said, there are so many ways that you can critique this thing that don’t involve a fundamental misunderstanding of the operational goal of the US government during WWII. There are MANY problems with it, and it shows a fundamental lack of care for the safety of the saboteurs, since they were just random non-US citizens, and let nobody claim that the US government has ever given a fuck about the lives of individuals.

Oh, totally fair, i kind of figured that was your concern. Just telling you where to find it. Also, giving an explanation as to why the CIA is being cited, and why it is actually much more reasonable than trying to take anything the modern CIA would produce at face value.

That being said, the document demonstrates an almost farcical lack of care for the safety of the saboteur, giving many suggestions which surely, even at that time, must have been near-guaranteed to lead to capture of the saboteur.

That document was created before the CIA existed, for use during WWII. It was written to encourage citizens under fascist regimes to work against their government and industries.

If you would prefer, it’s hosted on Project Gutenberg. Just search “simple sabotage”

You should at least get your damn info correct. There are plenty of ways to critique it without demonstrating that you havent even read the damned cover. It was written by the office of strategic services, which was the precursor to the CIA. It was written for distribution to citizens within axis countries — you know, the fascist ones?!— to give them ideas for how to safely sabotage their own governments and industries. At least read the damn year, you loon.

It’s available on project Gutenberg: simple sabotage field manual, by the office of strategic services.

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26184

My only disagreement is that I think it would not be equal, not that there would not be devastation.

Trump’s ridiculous tariffs are doing the beginning of the legwork for them.

Ah, yes. They’re all sycophants now.

Okay, let’s be clear: there were MANY resignations, but resignations are not always effective

But while america has been investing in making itself dependent on foreign resources, China has been investing in making other countries dependent on theirs. I think that, if it were about the math of overall risk, China has less risk from the us. There are wartime measures that can boost an economy, but they require that economy to actually have the resources necessary to function.

Except that, if China went full cold war with the US, all they’d have to do is stop selling to the US and the entire US economy would collapse. Not to mention that economic sanctions against the US would cripple the country completely, because Trump would just immediately default on the country’s debt (as he loves to do) and, oh yeah, the entire NYSE would crater to 0 in about 5 minutes flat.

Great, how convenient that the latter option is based on mass, just as the OP requested. The researchers should clarify the number based on total mass.