- Ukraine has also been vigilant in making hyper-realistic wooden replicas of various types of equipment, some even including heating elements in them so they look correct on thermal cameras.
If you've seen how glitchy/blurry the drone footage can get with jamming, it'd be easy to be fooled by a decoy.
- Isn't this based on an expression from Abigail then at Perlmonks? https://www.masteringperl.org/2013/06/how-abigails-prime-num...
- It's paradoxical. Like the famous I Am Canadian ad campaign being the product of a famous Canadian brewer...that was subsequently acquired by an American conglomerate.
Like how Tim Horton's, the quintessential Canadian institution, was bought by Burger King and remains "Canadian" if only for tax reasons.
- Change is bad because change can be catastrophically expensive. Civilizations don't die because they couldn't adapt, it's because they couldn't afford the cost of adapting, or because their entire society was predicated on a certain set of conditions that ceased to exist.
We take a lot of stuff for granted, like regular rainfall patterns in certain areas, that would be impossibly expensive to replace with technological solutions.
- Every day the costs of prevention go up, and the costs of mitigation get even higher.
With politics in the equation, it's better to kick the can down the road and let someone else deal with it than to shoulder the cost now and save the future literal trillions.
See also: American infrastructure.
If there was a generally accepted method for reporting future liabilities and politicians could be graded on how much they addressed those, rather than the immediate keep taxes low pressure they seem to respond to, we might be better off. Then again, there are voters that would rather save a hundred bucks in taxes today even if ten years later they'll have to fork out thousands.
- They've been actively under attack for over a decade now.
See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sad_Puppies
We can't have nice things.
That page title is utterly absurd.