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In response to an 'unprovoked attack on the headquarters of Kurdish SDF forces', the US airforce has bombed Assad's forces, killing over a 100 soldiers.
It is as of yet unsure how their ally Russia is going to respond.
If they are punishing unprovoked attacks, when are they going to bomb the Turks?
I don't think it's a terrible idea. The public doesn't really get to see much of what all the money our taxes going to the military gets us. I mean, we get Fleet Week (even if that isn't usually much to see) and the Air Force turns out to air shows and for other people's events sometimes, but that's pretty much it. Everyone loves seeing A-10s or F-16s doing their stadium flyover, or the Blue Angels' acrobatics, I reckon the army getting their own chance to show off shouldn't cause too much consternation.
The last time USA had a federal military parade was in 1991, after kicking Iraq's butt. But Bush Senior really needed that as he was facing re-election the next year, and mopping up previous US client dictators after the fall of the USSR was sort of his main thing. So, that one was really a "cold war is over USA #1 USA #1" parade.
I think those invasions (Panama and Iraq #1) eroded a lot of trust in the USA actually: as soon as you were no longer useful, USA might crush their smaller allies / clients. Notice that USA invaded Iraq pretty soon after they signed a peace deal with Iran.
Turkey claims it's army has invaded Syria, to create a 30 km buffer zone between Kurdish rebels and Turkey. They claim to have been able to progress without battle.
The US allied Kurds deny this, they say the Turkish army founght them, and was forced to retreat after intense battle.
The army invasion followed a series of Turkish airstrikes on Kurdish positions yesterday.
Well, US. Whatcha gonna do? Attack a NATO member, or let the Kurds die and be henceforth known to your allies as 'the traitorous pigdogs that can be trusted less than Satan"?
Wouldn't turkey have to attack themselves as a nato member?Autonomous Kurds are not part of NATO nor are they officially recognized as an independent country or anything of that sort either.
It could degenerate into a game of US military personal playing 'human shields', but very unlikely.
Anyone else remember the days back before anyone had avatars?
I hang around exclusively to keep people aware that it is possible to not have avatars
But I want to throw my two cents here: We are getting old.
When I joined I was a teenager, and took all opportunities to check what was going on in the forums.
Now I forget it's existence entirely every few days. Maybe we are just becoming a little less focused on the old things.
Executive branch of federal government tells executive branch of federal government how to write their budget proposal.
World literally ends.
Executive branch of federal government tells the CDC what they can say about diseases and how.
Safety of literally millions of people is now a purely political issue and you should pretend people don't die because of head in the sand bullshit like this, when they, in fact, often due.
Check out stuff about GRID before it was AIDS. 'Well we can't treat it or understand it yet, let's throw in the towel, not talk about it, and let human beings suffer and die because talking about it like adults makes us uncomfortable.
Says what they can say about diseases in their budget request narrative.
Still dumb since there are programs that use those words. Sure, the word 'vulnerable' has a crapload of synonyms, but the word fetus doesn't have a whole lot that are in context, 'unborn child'? Sounds a little odd when you say first trimester unborn child. How about transgender?
Executive branch of federal government tells executive branch of federal government how to write their budget proposal.
World literally ends.
Executive branch of federal government tells the CDC what they can say about diseases and how.
Safety of literally millions of people is now a purely political issue and you should pretend people don't die because of head in the sand bullshit like this, when they, in fact, often due.
Check out stuff about GRID before it was AIDS. 'Well we can't treat it or understand it yet, let's throw in the towel, not talk about it, and let human beings suffer and die because talking about it like adults makes us uncomfortable.
New hypothetical. For the next three days, all six-sided dice roll nothing but sixes when thrown. What happens?
The question behind all of these questions, though, is "what is consciousness," which lacks a rigorous definition.
EDIT: A thought on my above idea of adding and removing states. A possible formulation would be thus:
For our "Turing-like" machine, we have M=〈Q,Γ,b,Σ,δ,q0,F〉, where all but δ have the traditional formulation under the usual definition of a Turing machine. δ, however, is unique. It consists of the following:A variation exists for every possible read symbol.
- write symbol
- move tape
- next state
- state rewrite index i
- state rewrite size n
- action table to write over states of index i to i+n, of size m
Any state reference to a state of index x+i is replaced with a reference of a state of index x+i-n+m; that is, x1=x0-n+m, for all x≥1Still attempting to formulate the exact specifications. This is done to prevent going to a state that does not exist. Turing completeness is trivial- simply replace everything past the next state value of the action table with 0's. I am not sure of whether this system is Turing-equivalent or not.
