To be clear, that wasnt me you just responded to, but I was the one who asked you the questions. You seem to be making a lot of bad faith assumptions about my intent with those questions.

You’re asking a rhetorical question in the hopes of getting a gotcha.

Well, it is rhetorically framed, but I was trying to see if you and I are both working with frameworks built on reality.

Your primary goal here is not to deepen any kind of understanding.

Again, ouch. The tone of the questions may have come across that way, but my intent is never to “gotcha”… You’ll just have to take my word for it obviously.

If you did, you would be a lot more honest in your questions. You’d open up with a clear argument, based on specifics, with dates, people, events etc.

This is a forum on internet, not debate club. Like I said above, I’m sorry if my questions came across as being bad faith, but I’m not obligated to serve you a rhetorically perfect and fallacy-free set of questions, just as you are not obligated to engage with my questions if you feel they’re trying to uh… “Gotcha”

If you did, you would be a lot more honest in your questions. You’d open up with a clear argument, based on specifics, with dates, people, events etc.

I’m not totally sure how I’m responding with catch phrases. Honestly, if nothing else I’d love for you to clarify this

You want a nuanced discussion that delves into the specifics of the geopolitics of the region? Start a thread that’s not just diluted meaningless sentences, such as this nugget:

Why should the US president be in regular contact with the perpetrator of an ongoing genocide?

I’m sorry, I’m not being intentionally obtuse, but I can’t tell if you’re using the above as an example of a “diluted meaningless sentence” or whether it’s meant to be a good question.

Ultimately, I don’t feel I was acting in bad faith considering I was trying to evaluate your framework. If you feel it was done poorly, that’s okay, you dont need to respond.

Also:

Who are “you guys”?

Mind telling me how Israel is a table democracy? Or how they create stability? Maybe you can tell me why the middle east is a destabilized region to begin with?

Actually, it’s not irrelevant and they’re both!

It’s a rhetorical device :) I’m more than happy to agree that no-one really needs anything much larger than a kei truck.

Well… Back when a truck wasnt $60+k… Yes thats exactly what people did. They had a truck that guzzled gas and provided the bed space or towing capacity they needed for work, and a daily driver for other things.

From the last time I saw this ‘debate’… ~30% of truck owners use the bed once a year or less, ~75% of owners tow once a year or less, and ~70% go offroad once a year or less.

Now, obviously there are applications where a truck is needed. That can’t be denied… But there are so many applications here that use massive fucking trucks where another country would use a sprinter van or similar vehicle for the exact same application.

We Taught This Chimpanzee to Understand the American Political System and He Hanged Himself

Do you mind answering why you feel this way about homeless people? You or I could be among them tomorrow for all we know, I would hope that someone wouldn’t feel that animosity towards me.

I… Where are you buying Caesars that you’re getting them with fried pickles/onion rings/etc?

Or am I misunderstanding and you meant that those are on the side?

Where on earth do you live?

Care to explain how the US is currently trying to conquer the world when they are at their least imperialistic point in history? NATO isn’t an answer, NATO membership is requested by the member country, not forced by NATO (or the US)

We got our first one here a little while ago and personally, while they might look terrifying, it’s actually the smoothest experience I have ever had with an interchange

That being said, they are hell for pedestrians

They both increase the risk of drag under if a pedestrian is hit, and they both have decreased visibility in comparison to a sedan, hatchback, coupe, etc. Etc.

I love driving too, but fewer lanes with more transit/cycling infrastructure/stricter testing would let those of us who enjoy driving (and are safe doing so) to have a more open road

Most Kei trucks do top out around 750lbs, but I know for a fact that there are models of Honda Acty that have a rated bed load around 1500lbs and a rated towing capacity around 2200lbs

I often think that to myself as well to be honest. Originally, it was mostly because it’s the only “secure” system that I’m currently hosting and I wanted the ability to airgap it without taking the rest of my homelab offline.

I mostly use my homelab for tinkering/applying what I’m learning without breaking a production system at work so needless to say I’ve learned a lot since I originally deployed bitwarden… Now it’s just because I’m too lazy to spin a new vm and migrate everything.

Prefacing by saying my lab is severely breaking some a lot of best practices due to hardware availability limitations

Proxmox box (24GB DDR3, E3-1230)

• Ubuntu LTS Dedicated Minecraft server
• Windows 10 Dedicated V Rising server
• Ubuntu LTS for Plex
• TrueNAS
• Coming Soon: Jelu Server - a self-hosted Goodreads replacement

Raspberry Pi 2B+

• PiHole

OptiPlex 7020 sff (8GB DDR3, i5-4590)

• Bitwarden