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Americans don't want to fight for their country anymore
  • @kvasir476 @throws_lemy Suggested edit: After "In the last quarter-century" insert "I've finally noticed".

    Butler saw the scam first-hand, 100 years ago. Every generation seems it must relearn the lessons of our grandparents.

    As for young people not enlisting for wars of convenience - exactly. That's partially why a draft was around, and why it was so unpopular. And why the money each service pays for college benefits goes way up when there's a shooting war and goes down in peacetime.

    My time in the Navy overlapped with the VEAP program, which would give me a 2-to-1 match for college - up to the maximum contribution of $2700. What a joke.

    Compare that to the current GI Bill plus extra money each service pays directly.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smedley_Butler

  • As Reddit protests turn to porn-bombing, advertisers face increasing brand safety concerns
  • @Nepenthe @L4s That's hilarious.

    Advertisers actually thought that Reddit had rapport with and control over their users? Only someone who spends company money on advertising could be that misguided.

  • So Google is now preventing people from removing location data from photos taken with Pixel phones.
  • @ajsadauskas @technology @pluralistic Google claims a religious exemption that trumps your privacy concerns: "The data from your camera is sacred to us and our business model, and we, via our operating systems and applications, strictly forbid you from profaning that data."

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    While the bird site falls apart, the thrill of tooting fills my heart.

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