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Liechtenstein isn't technically still at war with America.

The Norks haven't been invaded yet, therefore their deterrence is clearly working.

Asari make perfect sense once you stop thinking "boobies" and start thinking "area-denial bioweapon". The Protheans made their species as a final fuck you to the Reapers. They live until something kills them, they're capable of breeding as quickly as humans and reproducing a viable population...

Ironically actually yes, but not in the manner you described. I'd just classify weaponry as either "defensive MAD deterrence" or "actually intended for MiC money laundering and/or imperialistic invasions of foreigners". And we'd still be safe from invasion because as it turns out, all you...

I think the MiC exists, I just think it's more concerned with stealing my money through taxes or the printer and devaluation than actually winning wars. Which is why it overpays contractors and builds nonfunctional junk but doesn't concern itself with actual threats like outsourced industrial...

I just posted the link for some security state goon's prediction model report that a modern peer power war would be a massive slaughterhouse, as thought that wasn't blindly obvious from every single prior example. Point is, to answer this thread's question, NATO isn't "capable." We don't have...

Or what? The punishment for violent dissidence is death in a war, which are also the consequences of being drafted for war, so why not fight your actual enemies?

The best case scenario for complying with Ukrainian-style kidnapping pressgangs is 3,600 casualties a day, with the worst being nuclear apocalypse and human extinction. Or in other words, your chances of surviving attempting to violently overthrow the goverment in favor of literally anything...

I think we're all overthinking it on the gender cultural wars front. You don't need a complex conspiracy about trying to prove God fallible when a simple one about wanting to get filthy rich will do. Transhumanism in the hands of the same rent-seeking parasites play out exactly the same way...

710 is liquefied terminid corpses, presumably there's gotta be a terminid population to provide a source for it?

Nordic Stew by Timo Lassy and Jukka Eskola

Tragedy of the commons. If it's possible to use transhumanism to remake yourself into something functionally drastically superior to a baseline human, someone's gonna do it and then they'll have a massive Outside Context advantage over the rest of us. Therefore, the only winning move is to...

Can you really blame them? The Enclave is everything wrong with the American security state and oligarchy, having blown up the world and hidden themselves in bunkers while the people they supposedly existed to protect died, then emerged to try and genocide the survivors. They absolutely deserve...

It ought to be easy enough to test if there's actually a 'gay gene', just wait a few generations to see if homosexuality goes extinct in tolerant first-world countries while remaining in countries that oppress it. If there is such a gene, so long as society makes its carriers have heterosexual...

Hence borg being the best of both worlds. Mechanical enough that as Borg King, I'm not a single meatbag individual/point of vulnerability but an infomorph capable of being downloaded into meatbag bodies as necessary. But, when in said meatbag bodies, I'm still biological enough to enjoy the...

Of course not! Nothing about the whole 'enormous rodent' thing, she's a married women. The problem with Istvan's argument for people having the ultimate individual freedom to reshape their biology is the same as any other hyperlibertarian argument, that he doesn't take zero-sum competition...