kingbob

The police already have tons of security cameras. They refuse to use them to arrest murderers, rapists, and thieves. They do use them to arrest conservative protesters. Why would I trust them with more surveillance resources?

Check for tunnels under the building.

BR Metro council members be like:

No, I try to avoid interacting with family law, the family court, and the lawyers and judges who practice in that space to the greatest extent possible.

I’m not sure what game our foreign policy is playing at the moment. Outside of Iran, everything seems to be working, but that’s a pretty big caveat.

Looks like this one

In previous matches, the US team won with crisp passing and relentless attack. This game, Belgium is disrupting those passes effectively.

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You can live without electricity and even food for a while, but you can’t live without water.

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Dating back to as long as writing exists, there is a principle called the rule of 3. Every regime is 3 bad days away from being overthrown. If a population has no food to eat for three days straight, they tend to overthrow their leaders. This applies to armies, sailors, and commoners during a siege. The whole point of a siege was to cut a population off from food until they run out knowing that leaders faced with a starving population will either surrender or be killed in a revolt by new leaders who will negotiate a surrender in exchange for food.

I agree with your rating. Out of all of them, I think Bruce has the single best song with “Born to Run”.

Lincoln was a lot of things, but he was ultimately a pragmatist with excellent vision. Much of the nation could only view their current situation through the lens of the Revolution. Lincoln was looking forward to the demands of the 20th Century.

There is a lot of criticism of the French in WW2 for preparing to fight another WW1 rather than preparing for how technology would rapidly render their tactics obsolete. They were looking backwards and fighting the new war with the ideas of the previous war. This led to their rapid defeat.

Lincoln understood how technology was rapidly changing how countries would wage war and function going forward. He understood logistics in waging war. The South was full of idealists and utopians trying to follow their Jeffersonian vision of an Agrarian paradise with themselves as the new royalty. Lincoln saw that the future would need an industrial empire capable of competing on the world stage to survive. The South’s backwards facing idealism would be crushed under the weight of Lincoln’s forward thinking pragmatism. Logistics and industry would win the war, not chivalry. Lee lost Gettysburg in a Napoleonic Charge while Grant won Vicksburg with WW1 siegecraft.

You can hate Lincoln for his methods, but there was no way for America to rise to the status of the World Power it would become in the early 20th century without Lincoln paving the way. Lincoln’s visionary approach to logistics (particularly railroads), early dabbling with aspects of command economy, forging of a singular American identity, total war mindset, and centralization of power created the modern imperial presidency. It cost 600k lives to remake America in his image, and our nation continues on, in many ways, as the ultimate embodiment of Lincoln’s vision.