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Should be a wild four years.

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The Ugly One said:
It doesn't. Expending labor and resources to make fantastically expensive marvels of technology that exist only to get blown up makes you poorer, not richer. That's why wars break empires. Ever since Keynes said you could achieve prosperity by burying jars of cash in the ground and paying people to dig them up, though, war capitalism just won't go away.
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Millitary spending is gradual iteration of technologies that will be essential in space funded in a bipartisan manner. The use of weapons is product testing on animals.
 
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convulsion swell said:
You are mentally disabled. Why has your mongoloid handler let you into this thread?
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I know it's not a good practice to solely comment on how much I like a post, but I greatly appreciate the prose.

Also cooking is easy and fun, even what someone would consider "fancy" techniques are just simple things you can do. If you find someone on youtube you like listening to and have nothing to watch you pick up all sorts of things that make your life easier, from just eating good food a lot to impressing dates. You'd be surprised how many people don't know what deglazing a pan is and its just dumping liquid onto the stuff that's stuck to the bottom to make a sauce. I remember as a kid my Mom would rarely let anyone else cook using a pan because it made them hard to clean. She made it sort of a personal creed that she does not like cooking and that the kitchen's most important function is to look nice. Discovering that I could clean a pan and make a sauce at the same time was like finding the holy grail.
 
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Party Hat Wurmple said:
Wrong. The US manufactures bombs. And we manufacture A LOT of bombs. At the end of the day, if a trade war crashes both your economies and your only choice is to go to war, you stop operating on fiat currency. You operate on the Bomb Dollar. And Nobody. Nobody. NOBODY on the planet can best the US in the Bomb Dollar.
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Dont be so sure of that. America makes overpriced boutique toys that are best 30 to 50 percent better at 100 times the price than competitors and are also basically irreplaceable in some cases.

Meanwhile China is cranking out more warships and Russia cranks out more artillery shells.

Russia is cranking out combat drones with effective capabilities for a few hundred dollars. If you asked the American MIC to make something similar it would start at 6 figures and can only be repaired or modified by approved technicians with a billion dollar service contract. In exchange you would 5 more minutes of flight time and a fancy iff system that fails half the time.

There is also a real fear that the carrier might be obsolete. And that a doctrine of lots of smaller ships equipped with hyper sonic missiles can beat a carrier fleet at sea. China seems to think so. Also our current carrier fleet captains the best and brightest of the Us Navy are acidentally hitting cargo ships. I am left skeptical of a solid core of compotence remaining.
 
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Betonhaus said:
Nobody has time. You basically need someone with an extra four hours a day to plan and cook anything that's not super basic and nobody can afford that.
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lmao I dont understand why people are disagreeing with you, 3 hours would be closer, 1 hour per meal, but genuinely if you want to cook a wholesome hot meal its at least 1 hour of prep and cook and clean per meal EASILY, maybe you cut it down by preping earlier in the week or ignoring cleaning but that time still counts.

Most people who get home after a long day of work on a hasty breakfast and minimal lunch dont have the energy to put together a complex meal and just opt for the easy route

Is this right? absoloutley not, is this good? same response. But its the reality for alot of hard working not super bright people and should be addressed, what he is getting at is why hunters/gatherers were 2 separate jobs 35,000 years ago, one person gets the shit, the other person is preparing the shit, simple as, then we went and fucked up the whole system.
 
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autistic dog said:
Real carriers with catapult or cope slope again?
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Carriers are for bullying weaker countries. So you can park your carrier and bomb them.

We are supposed to believe that American carriers have magic tech that can beat a dozen smaller ships with hyper sonics. And that next gen fighters will sink them all. Despite it seeming to be that they are very nervous about putting them in front of modern radar systems.

China would only really want carriers when its time to fuck with Japan and India. Their focus at the moment seems to be beating an American carrier fleet in and near Chinese waters.
 
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lmao I dont understand why people are disagreeing with you, 3 hours would be closer, 1 hour per meal, but genuinely if you want to cook a wholesome hot meal its at least 1 hour of prep and cook and clean per meal EASILY, maybe you cut it down by preping earlier in the week or ignoring cleaning but that time still counts.
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Why exactly do you need three hot meals a day? Why cant you prep? If you are so hung up in need of having everything hot, you can take a few hours on weekend and have everything prepared for the entire week.
 
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Whatever the reality of the situation with China's navy is it is impressive as it is concerning how productive their dockyards have been in recent years.

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Apparently as of late their warships have been showing up off the coasts of countries allied with the Untied States. live-fire drills near New Zealand, circumnavigating Australia for a few weeks now and patrolling around the South China Sea.

Will not be surprised if they try something in the near future but who can say when that time will be. No country embarks on a path of military expansion and modernization without a goal in mind of some kind.
 
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autistic dog said:
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Trump doing more for Christianity than Christians have done in the last 100 years.
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Let me get this straight: Ireland is ultra mega-pro Islam & shit, to the point where it's government is so pro-Hamas it drove the Israeli Embassy out of its country, than planned to make the former embassy building a Palestine Freedom museum.

Yet *checks notes* they draw a line at devout Christians who are against mutilating & sterilizing small children? 🤦‍♀️ Stupid regressive leftists.
 
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StudMccool said:
lmao I dont understand why people are disagreeing with you, 3 hours would be closer, 1 hour per meal, but genuinely if you want to cook a wholesome hot meal its at least 1 hour of prep and cook and clean per meal EASILY, maybe you cut it down by preping earlier in the week or ignoring cleaning but that time still counts.

Most people who get home after a long day of work on a hasty breakfast and minimal lunch dont have the energy to put together a complex meal and just opt for the easy route

Is this right? absoloutley not, is this good? same response. But its the reality for alot of hard working not super bright people and should be addressed, what he is getting at is why hunters/gatherers were 2 separate jobs 35,000 years ago, one person gets the shit, the other person is preparing the shit, simple as, then we went and fucked up the whole system.
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Are you fucking retarded? I'm a lazy asshole and I just fixed myself bacon and eggs for dinner. I cooked some chicken and made chicken alfredo night before. It's not that hard. If I can do it, so can you. Cooking doesn't have to be five star restaurant tier complicated, you absolute mongiloid.
 
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