It's a motte-and-bailey fallacy that starts with countries and leaders having relationships in a global, interwoven world and ends with excusing a blood-thirsty dictator as if they had no agency.

For all their failures, the allies never bombed cities with nerve agents.

But even if you want to do that, why don't you go just a couple more years further and argue that Bosnians should've been left to be genocided?

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Have you seen what Russia is doing to Ukraine?

What's wrong with a European company working on not letting the same (or worse) repeat in the Baltic states or Poland?

Living in a hostel with a shared bathroom can cut the biggest expense (rent) by more than half.

Would you?

The savings that can be made from living in a tiny box with a shared bathroom instead of a regular American house are extreme and are much bigger than savings from not owning a car. Do you seriously think that will convince people and we will see the death of dedicated housing units in the near future?

Phil also recommends this lecture in one of his videos [3], which is still one of my all time favourite lectures ever.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/@PhilsLab

[2] https://www.phils-lab.net/

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QG0Apol-oj0

People buy cars because it's a little bubble of home away from home. They store their stuff in there, it smells like them, and they don't get stranger's vomit on a seat when they want to drive somewhere.

The "people won't buy cars because self-driving" take just completely ignores the human nature.

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No, prop drones don't "geometrically catchup". Shahed's extreme range achieved by flying really slow, the top speed (which they don't sustain constantly to conserve fuel) is about 185kph, for the maximum flight time of about 13 hours. US carriers officially can sustain 60kph indefinitely, and in practice they can go faster. That means on a straight line a Shahed can only gain 1600km in the absolute best scenario. In reality it's much less, because launching takes time and the average speed is slower.

The capabilities that you're describing are a fantasy.

Small quad hype is just techbro delusion. Those quads have their place, but the vast majority of the defence toolkit needs to be much more sophisticated. For example, Ukraine is still struggling to manufacture a domestic ballistic missile four years into the war, despite having tons of funding, a ballistic program pre-war, and Western experts willing to help. If western countries stopped low-rate production that normally goes into stockpiles, the timeline to start manufacturing up would be similar.