even if the scholar/investigator/researcher doesn't have any thing unique to report. For-profit publishers (like Elsevier for example) with their paywalls add to the problem. The ease of setting up websites that will publish anything are problematic as well. Maybe in time AI can help strain all that output into some sort of useable form.

That's not very convincing. Buy stock in some MIC companies or enlist in the military why don't you? Have some of your skin in game. America is a society with an economy not storefront economic zone.

That's the way the cookie crumbles then. America can't be world policeman anymore. Nor should it.

Yah. I really don't. MAGA -Trumpy snark & ad hominum against me I don't care about. If you feel so strongly about this then go enlist.

Yah sure. Moravia, Belgium, Luxembourg, Lithuania, et al. aren't defending anyone's territorial integrity except their own and only with lots of U.S. help. Snark against Trump has no bearing on that fact.

... it's not America's problem. The US taxpayers can't and shouldn't be on the hook for the blood, treasure, and opportunity costs for yet another open-ended commitment. EU/NATO nations need to start covering their own defense costs. It's not 1946 anymore.

Correct. Only I'm in Michigan.

by not writing policies in California. The one's that go along with this mandate and go on to make big losses will bankrupt themselves. I just don't see how it could go any other way.

come on now. The chess federation's dress code should be configured so that the players are comfortable and so that nobody shows up in a Creature from the Black Lagoon costume or as a Wookie or something equally odd in order to distract and annoy their opponent. And with that said, that's where any "dress code" should be left.

Indeed. But as long as there's one dollar of profit to be made they'll put up with this sort of stuff. Just watch.

Yes indeed.

a one-party kakistocracy nowadays and so a pretty dubious place to do business. I sure wouldn't reside or do any business there myself.

Dr. Bunge is very smart. I bet she could go head-to-head with Elon.

Dipsticks like that are to always be ignored. SpaceX has out performed NASA lately and probably in future as well.

And mistakes and accidents will occur. Don't let the slings and arrows of mockery from late night comedians and know-nothing populist congressmen stop or discourage these efforts. My 2Â