They already are, prison labor expansion would be at the expense of existing companies.

Are over 80% of them going in to ASRock boards in the first place?

As a coder, the majority of my job isn’t writing code. It’s translating the bullshit management says and the broken specs we’re given into what they both actually want, not what they said. There is never going to be an AI that fixes that

South Korea stepping into the scene strong then. Cool.

Like anyone can afford to talk to a doctor any more.

Yeah, he’s one of the soft targets that should be hiding in a bunker if Trump decides to invade Canada. Not because it would save him, but it saves time on burial if he’s already underground.

I mean look, those Russians were done using them anyway, and why let a perfectly good kidney go to waste?

They’re going to China to discuss sales numbers.

I’m not waiting for the adult, I’m waiting for the bath salt Florida man.

From what I’m seeing out of Germany, NATO isn’t going anywhere. The US might not be a continuing part of it.

Also there’s still an off chance China might play a part in Ukraine. They have Putin by the short and curlies, and could offer a better deal than the US for mineral rights. It might hinge on if Trump pisses off Xi with this trade war crap, or gets in the way of him taking Taiwan.

Wow, Russian bots are getting desperate to be crawling around in here.

The choice was, be a friend, or be pig food. Kevin chose wisely.

How about all of human history. It’s never worked out well for the larger hegemony to reduce itself to the benefit of adversaries.

The actual number is irrelevant, the change in number does Khamenei doesn’t know how many nukes Israel or the US actual have. He’ll make decisions based on what he does know. And a draw down tells him he can get away with more attacks.

Russia hadn’t started invading it’s neighbors to steal resources.

If we draw down, between the number of nukes we have now, and 0, there will be a global war. The actual number of nukes won’t matter, humanity will be at risk of extinction.

The only ones at fault for where we are now are the GoP and Trump. They’ve destabilized the Middle East by supporting Israels settlements, taken every dime from Putin to do his bidding for decades, tore up Pacific treaties to stop Xi, while doing every thing they can to get Iran to give them a pretense to invade.

Japan survived two nukes and became one of the largest financial forces in the world. So how many could Russia survive? 10? 50? Maybe Putin like those odds. Maybe Iran decides it’s worth it to clear out Israel. If there’s only a few nukes involved, the crazy fucks start thinking they can win a nuclear war, or at least survive it well enough to be worth it.

Not trusting Russia used to be bipartisan.

And every step closer, is a step closer to death. Nuclear weapons are a tigers tail. When we let go, we all die.

Every step closer to disarmament bring us closer to nuclear war. Every nuke disarmed makes us one step closer to Putin or Xi thinking they can win a nuclear war.