tarrox1992

Yeah, this seems like a case of survivorship bias and the fact that there are way more games coming out in the modern age.

You're right, but it's not really about the angle. Talking geometry, the pyramids of Egypt are 'square pyramids'. Four triangles on top of a square base, meeting at a point, or vertice. A cube, however, is six squares at right angles to each other, three faces meeting in vertices. The point at the top of a pyramid will look a lot different than a corner of a cube, because it's a completely different number of planes meeting.

There needs to be processing, manufacturing, and other infrastructure built for the practical large scale implementation of any new technology. That takes time. Bureaucracy can make steps take even longer.

As opposed to what's currently happening?

Why wouldn't strong people look forward to the end of the weak? We want the weak to end, not the strength to ened.

It has been proven that Trump is a violent rapist. I'd rather have an alleged gang member, who has obviously reformed, on the streets than an insane felon ruling the country like a tyrant.

I mean, we don't have to teach them to translate. That was unexpected by people, but not really everyone.

https://www.asapdrew.com/p/ai-emergence-emergent-behaviors-artificial-intelligence

An emergent behavior of LLMs is the ability to translate between languages. IE, we taught something Spanish, and we taught it English, and it automatically knows how to translate between them. If we taught it English and dolphin, it should be able to translate anything with shared meaning.

I am an average american and I am not used to those things. I go to work, and then I go home and cook a meal for my family.

https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/survey-shows-how-often-americans-dine-out/

There are other surveys with similar results, but the average American doesn't do what you do, so, in this regard, you aren't average.

So then why do they need my tax dollars if they have all these lucrative deals with multinational billionaire companies? Although, this is beside the point that I don’t think any part of the U.S. Military should be “making money.” JFC

The way you think things should be, and the way they are aren't the same. I agree with you, our military shouldn't be making money. However, in a capitalist society we provide our military service members and their families amenities.

Why? I find that those establishments are neither healthy nor economical compared to a basic vegetables and rice meal.

Cool. Teach all our soldiers and their families how to do that, or convince the military to.

Then I would expect the bases to have facilities that reflect this fact. That is proper logistical thinking, after all.

They do. They're called restaurants.

There are also contracted entertainment venues, banks, grocery stores, gas stations, etc. Should each military base provide their soldiers with unlimited gas to get around in their person vehicles, or are you okay with the gas stations? The better solution to that problem would be to upgrade public transportation, but I'm not going to get on a public forum and whine about gas stations on military bases in a society full of cars.

This is an entirely different problem. Why is your assumption that the base desire is for fast food and not out of a perceived more palatable alternative of a not shitty mess hall?

Because I have actually worked on a military base with soldiers. I didn't say that their desire was for fast food. I said it was for basic services that they are used to and that are available to citizens outside of military bases. As I said before, you are complaining about a symptom of a much larger problem.

Have you ever interacted with American soldiers? Recently? The average American is used to those things. I think we should change a lot about our society, but focusing on keeping fast food off of military bases is treating the symptoms instead of the problem. If the soldiers didn't want that food, then those places wouldn't make money, and the military makes more money through those contracts. This is a simple and expected outcome of a capitalist society. If those establishments exist, we should give our soldiers the choice of having them in their lives.

Do you know what our military bases actually look like? These people literally live on bases for years. There are elementary through high schools on bases. Filled with children who are only there because of their parents' decisions. With teachers who aren't active military either. Saying "these people should be satisfied with mess halls, and we should provide them with better mess halls" completely ignores everything else about the situation.

Why is there privately owned stores? How are there privately owned stores? You’re an SF Commando, eat the mess hall gruel or whatever, surely?

Why would we not provide services to our active duty military nembers and their families? We definitely pour way too much money into the military, but I don't think making them miserable is the idea when talking about cutting funding. I'm fairly certain AAFES is the branch of the DOD that deals with contracts to give basic retail services, such as fast food, banks, etc. to Army and Air Force bases.

The monster under your bed will always be there. <3