As they say in Thailand, same same but different.
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And with the decline in birth rates armies are going to have smaller pools of people to recruit from. Even the US army is experiencing a shortfall, and it's not getting better any time soon. Perun did a great video of this just recently.
It makes sense that if militaries won't be able to recruit the quantity and quality of troops that they would like to, they'd need to supplement those numbers with some kind of force multiplier.
Dude. The UK broke its trade deals and left. Now it pays increased taxes on all goods and services from the EU.
A strong neodymium magnet so you can stick your wallet to your fridge.
This comment feels like it's been on the Fediverse too long. To continue the analogy, your small town suddenly starts hosting a lot of voices on soap boxes. The more visited the town becomes, the more town criers it gets. Those criers bring their audiences, so not only do you have long queues for the two public bathrooms but you get fights in the town square; struggles over ideologies and all the underhanded trolling that entails. Corpos move in, governments move in, all eager to bend the ear of anyone unfortunate enough to get in grabbing range.
I liked Digg. I loved Reddit. At some point you just need to make a stand. Money and profitability aren't part of the equation, fuck'em. I'll keep my small town tyvm.
Asking why is meaningless, it's an artifact of how our brains are wired.
Our brains are evolved to try to understand the world around us in terms of reason; if this happens then that happens. It makes sense when looking at the chain of results that cascade out of the fireworks of creation; chemistry, biology and physics. The arrow of time points one way and we have evolved around that premise.
It doesn't mean that our intuitions are correct or even vaguely headed down the right path. We're a victim of that arrow of time, the path of the world we live in.
I can't speak to the other countries on this list but South Africa had ample access to vaccines. The take-up was low. Reasons offered were doubts around the efficacy and conservative attitudes to modern medicine.
Let's just pretend that Zatoichi wasn't a thing. NB he might be fiction but the blind swordsman kicked serious ass.
As a first-time user I'm enjoying Lemmy. I feel like I want to contribute mostly because I won't have an immediately antithetical comment to follow my own. Am not looking for an echo chamber, I'm looking for conversation and sharing ideas. Reddit has devolved and this seems like the best way forward, for now.
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It's like the Fonz jumping the shark all over again.