• @[email protected]
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    57 months ago

    For some reason I remembered Notch. He tried to settle all disputes in Quake. And it even worked.

  • @[email protected]
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    157 months ago

    You know that movie with Bruce Willis named Surrogates? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surrogates The Scene where they visit the Military.

    This is how WW3 will happen, i figure. Warfare from the comfort of your home, ready to jump into o a new robot Body once downed. War being nothing more than a Battle of attrition and technical Ressources.

    • @[email protected]
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      57 months ago

      Hmmm, piloting a robot body against other robot bodies in war actually sounds kinda cool. Live-fire paintball without the risk of actual injury

      • @[email protected]
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        77 months ago

        The robots probably wouldn’t stop with the other robots. For example, if Israel had remote piloted robot warriors do you think they would only attack and kill other robots? They would just send them into Palestine, slaughter the “hostiles” and wouldn’t bat an eye.

    • Uriel238 [all pronouns]
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      117 months ago

      As Randall Munroe observes, the first billionaire to create an AI-controlled swarm of killer robots will try to take over the world. So it may be Robot Wars on a grand scale.

    • @[email protected]
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      17 months ago

      If they make a bigger button and then the enemy can push a button with their wrist nubbin.

  • @[email protected]
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    207 months ago

    I did my part by being born with a sensory disability. Mind you I’m also too mentally ill to enlist…

    • JackRiddle
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      47 months ago

      I WILL get myself addicted if a draft gets instated. My family has a predisposition towards addiction, and my life would be ruined either way.

      • @[email protected]
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        57 months ago

        I don’t know the statistics but survival chances for addicts might be actually better than for soldiers in active combat

  • nukeM
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    677 months ago

    WW3 is gonna be a 5v5 on de_dust2

  • Diplomjodler
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    967 months ago

    How exactly does masturbating prevent you from military service?

    • nuke
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      Rules 5 and 6

      I don’t care about how much you dislike capitalism, that doesn’t belong in here. Also this is NCD, we love war.

  • @[email protected]
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    Why. The fuck. Would anyone, Millennial or younger join the US military these days? To fight for oil overseas, while the world is burning? To be the arm of our corrupt politicians? To defend all the houses we will never afford? To protect a populace that yearns for fascism?

    • The Assman
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      117 months ago

      You know most enlisted aren’t in combat roles right? My brother did ten years behind a desk, ended up with an awesome career and got to travel the world for free.

      • @[email protected]
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        57 months ago

        Huh? I didn’t mention a single thing about combat roles or personal danger. If you join the military, you’re supporting their agenda…

        • verity_kindle
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          87 months ago

          You’re fun, but this is NCD, it’s all military defense jokey jokes. The only civilian defense we take seriously is Mr. Park and the Roof Koreans. You’re not really here, with these filthy rave babies, to persuade them not to join the military? It’s far too late for many commenters here, they already have bad knees and a discharge in their rearview mirrors. Try to get some perspective on your audience before you start your Ted Talk.

        • @[email protected]
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          47 months ago

          If you work for just about any corporation in the US, you are supporting an equally repugnant agenda.

          Welcome to Capitalism.

        • @[email protected]
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          47 months ago

          Hard to find a way to make a living without supporting an unethical agenda, unfortunately.

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            Yup. The company I work for is a bit less unethical than many others. Nobody’s perfect though, and we have a yearly remembrance for people we’ve killed over the years.

        • The Assman
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          I didn’t mention a single thing about combat roles or personal danger

          To fight

          To be the arm

          To defend

          To protect

          Do you not know what any of those terms mean

        • DaGeek247
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          Name five companies you can work for that don’t have an unethical agenda.

    • @[email protected]
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      157 months ago

      The nearly free housing, healthcare, and potential for a pension are all decent incentives. Basically everything people want for normal us citizens are provided to the military.

      Barring, of course, active duty members who have to deal with deployment and location assignments.

    • verity_kindle
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      67 months ago

      Tax free liquor and tobacco? 3 meals a day? It was a good enough reason for granpappy to leave the still down in the holler.

    • @[email protected]
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      117 months ago

      Free college. Depending on where you live; better parking(purple heart), no property tax, unlimited handshakes, and the ability to stare into the middle distance and white-knuckle any moment you are left with your thoughts.

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        77 months ago

        Better parking you say? 🤔

    • @[email protected]
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      497 months ago

      The prospects of room, board, health insurance, and a pension are more than enough to entice someone with no better options.

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        lmao, who believes you’ll get any of that and not the post nam treatment

        I’ve met so many disabled vets suffering and the va/benefits keep getting worse

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    137 months ago

    Based on all the Arma footage already in the news I thought this was always the plan…

  • Destide
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    117 months ago

    Wars are won and lost on a nations ability to not get physics yeeted into the air