lapsed_pacifist

Please demonstrate, then.

bean used to post long and in depth posts into the SlateStarCodex Open Threads, then someone helped him set up his own site, and here we are. He organizes meetups at Naval History sites too.

There are accounts which do not allow you to change the email the account is registered to.

These safety groups seem to be mostly concerned with making sure LLMs don't say bad words, not with preventing FOOM!.

Look at the Dry Stone Wall Association of Great Britain, or The Stone Trust in the United States. These organizations still teach traditional methods of dry stone walling which cover a lot of these techniques.

This isn't really a proper wall though, it's a single thickness stack. I don't think it could handle any lateral force at all without toppling. If this machine could build a double skin wall with batter, wall heads, and hearting throughout the center, I'd be really impressed!

Not true. A well built fieldstone wall is massive, we estimate around .5T per linear yard when we build one to 4ft. with cope stones. Sheep will not knock it over, but cattle can. For that reason, through-stones are allowed to protrude a few inches on normal pasture wall for sheep, but you should make them flush on walls for cattle because the cows will try to use the protrusions to scratch themselves and could knock the wall over.

A well built wall doesn't appear unstable. One of the tests is whether or not you can see any daylight through the wall, and the wall should easily support the weight of several people leaning against it.

That city has a tiny fraction of the population density, commercial activity, and industrial transport of Chicago, they're really not comparable. Transporting people and goods over large distances by bicycle doesn't scale very well.

Without for profit, for export, weapons, smaller entities that cannot support the industrial base to produce the means for their own defense would be at the mercy of any power who could. Self defense is a right, and the means of self defense should be widely available. Ensuring the vulnerability of the weak is morally reprehensible.

Much of this has to do with Russian tank doctrine and the lack of sufficient infantry to provide mutual support to armor.

A soldier is tens of thousands of dollars of training and gear. A bullet costs pennies. Thus soldiers have no place on the battlefield?

I think you should watch Chieftains video and read some military theory. Simply being vulnerable to less expensive weapon systems does not make a unit/vehicle/soldier useless or obsolete.

It's been a few years since I did any framing, so I could be wrong about the current state of the industry.

As someone in the trades, I really disagree. Most applications that require a hammer could not be accomplished with a nail gun. Nail guns are great for attaching thin materials over thicker materials, like putting MDX onto a frame or attaching roofing materials. You don't generally frame with a nail gun because you want to use larger and heavier nails driven a lot deeper. For very light or precision work on finished surfaces you go back to the hammer because it reduces the chance of scuffing or marking on the surface.

"Binding wood" is much more nuanced than you make it seem.