They could be. But then they would be a dictator’s military - all about looks and shitty at everything else. The kind that gets conscripted to be thrown at enemy combatants as cannon fodder to die for the glory of their leader. The US military is a logistical fighting force, that’s what they’re good at. Not dressing up and goose-stepping polished and pretty for nationalistic display.
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RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•SpaceX's Starship blows up ahead of 10th test flightEnglish231·7 hours agoIt’s not a big deal when you’re blowing up someone else’s money with no real accountability.
Anybody who is making money off existing transportation is going to be against public transportation. Cab companies lobby against rail everywhere, from city to burbs or airport to downtown. Trucking, for obvious reasons. Passenger rail can carry cargo at night. And of course anybody selling fuel to the mass of cars, the petro industry.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Minnesota Shooting Suspect Allegedly Used Data Broker Sites to Find Targets’ AddressesEnglish2·3 days agoWhat service.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Founder of 23andMe buys back company out of bankruptcy auctionEnglish2·3 days agoSo glad I never did this one.
Charity is profitable.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•For the first time, social media overtakes TV as Americans’ top news sourceEnglish411·4 days agoBad to worse.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Trump team leaks AI plans in public GitHub repositoryEnglish39·4 days agoThe stupid is intensifying. They both a) know they can’t run a government and b) are in a rush to make something that will do all the work so they can sit back and rake in the money. No, this is not about actually making the country better because objectively LLMs suck and were never intended for such tasks.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.worldto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Why do some people hate drinking water?1·4 days agoYeah, it can sorta be a “boredom reliever” kind of thing.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.worldto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Why do some people hate drinking water?13·4 days agoLiving off flavored drinks and craving that sugar is stimulation you don’t get from plain water.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.worldto Selfhosted@lemmy.world•The hidden cost of self-hostingEnglish3·5 days agoYes. Some services are not good at accepting existing naming conventions, insist on their own naming and sorting conventions, or require a lot of third party services that will unfortunately rename your movie to something foreign or otherwise completely wrong.
It takes quite a bit of time to clean up titles and metadata that you may be migrating or adding from a personal collection. Sure, it’s free…but it doesn’t mean it isn’t frustrating or time consuming.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.worldto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Who is an actor you can't stand, but everyone likes?152·5 days agoCringe comedy actors like Ferrell. Just saying or doing stupid cringeworthy shit that really isn’t funny to make a situation more uncomfortable and unbelievable.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.worldto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What was your favorite Saturday morning cartoon(s) as a kid?3·5 days agoThe OG Looney Tunes.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.worldto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Who is an actor you can't stand, but everyone likes?24·5 days agoStory time?
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.worldto Europe@feddit.org•Finland's Austerity Gamble: Tax Cuts for the Rich, Pain for the PoorEnglish92·6 days agoThe problem is that nobody pushes things back to the left. In the US the Right kept making changes when they got control and when the libs had their shot they kinda shrugged about giving the rich more money and power. They made a big deal out of lgbtq rights or pot legalization, but didn’t fix the wealth and power imbalance. Repeat, again and again and now there are pretty much no liberals, they gave up all their power, and lgbtq rights and all that are on the chopping block.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.worldto Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•If you have used this you are immune to all disease.71·7 days agoThe problem with them is that it’s up to the owner of the facility to make sure they are removed and cleaned in a timely manner, not simply re-rolled dirty towel, and the machine was in good repair and didn’t jam.
Quite often that wasn’t the case, so you’d wind up with dirty towel recycling or stuck.
Yes, this absolutely contributed to the spread of disease. No way it couldn’t. I had a family member in the medical field and said that the reason we didn’t see them anymore much past the ‘80s is because they were unhygienic thanks to the aforementioned issues.
So it’s not really the fault of the towel, it’s the fact that people are cheap bastards and don’t keep things serviced, clean, and maintained. It’s better to grumble and shake your hands dry rather than continue to use a jammed, soiled towel machine.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Massive internet outage reported: Google services, Cloudflare, Character.AI among dozens of services impactedEnglish4·7 days agoCentralized is control. Control is profit. It’s already not “well”, that’s why we’re here discussing it.
He’s been trying to get back into acting for a while now. This is a great movie for fans to get to see him in.
Dead internet here we come.
This is the direction Reddit has been pointed in for years now.