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  • but the core idea is one of prosociality and female safety

    No, it isn’t. That’s not at all why the separation of sexes exists for Muslims.

    It’s about the fact that once a woman reaches a certain age, she is now eligible for being owned by someone other than her father and must be treated as exclusive property that only one man can own. Restricting their movements and not giving them the right to drive a car or vote or do other “normal adult” things is all the same as separating the sexes and making women wear certain clothing.





  • It’s not the hubris of man. It’s scientific research over decades and decades that has shown many captive animals are unable to survive without humans. This isn’t just some hippy or business person making uninformed assumptions about how animals work. Animals who have never been taught how to hunt on their own, or how to communicate with others of their species, will slowly die of starvation. It happens all the time when animals are let loose in the wild with no skills.

    If you don’t believe me, go watch Naked and Afraid. Nearly every episode is about how these adult humans who have a production team ensuring their safety can’t catch any food and get sick from bad water and mostly starve for the entire duration of the challenge. That’s what captive animals are like. They have grown up with nobody to teach them anything useful. The only people who do well on the show are those who have had years of training in how to survive in the wild.







  • Two things can both be true:

    1. There are classified programs that Greg Mello may or may not know about that are capable of countering all three of those weapons listed. There might also be classified Russian programs that are capable of countering those counters. And you can be sure we know at least something about those countering counters. Kill Chain analysis has been a huge focus area for the last few years, so the US military has developed ways to counter threats.

    2. Golden Dome is still a wildly expensive, fanciful, and technically infeasible program. Even if we know exactly how to detect and counter these threats, the US is a gigantic fucking country with TONS of border to enclose. It’s one thing to have a way to detect, track, target, and shoot down one of those three things. It’s another to do that for 40 at the same time in wildly different areas of the world (made up number since I have no idea how many weapons Russia is able to unleash). It’s a lot easier to protect an area the size of New Jersey than it is to protect the entire US.










  • You’re being downvoted because you’re doing the “I’m 13 and this is deep.” If you are equating putting millions of people into furnaces with the stated cause to eradicate them, to supplying arms to a country that is bombing a country without care for who dies with the stated cause of rescuing their hostages (bullshit) and avenging an attack on their soil (true), then you have no idea the scope of WW2.

    You are also saying that since we did something bad now that our actions 85 years ago are now invalid. I can’t even begin to describe how stupid that makes you sound. Again, I agree with saying that the US is the villain right now and doing awful, horrific things. But A) you really have no concept how bad WW2 was, and B) nobody has any idea how bad it would have gotten if the US hadn’t stepped in during WW2. The whole world should be fighting Israel and the US on what is going on right now. But that doesn’t suddenly make what we did 85 years ago an evil action. It’s such a mind-bogglingly stupid take.

    If you think our bad actions now mean all of our previous actions are bad, then that means you think us supporting Ukraine is also bad. Do you think the US should stop supporting Ukraine?