I think we mostly agree. I just disagree with your claim that the US should spend more on Defense.
JillyB
joined 1 year ago
I'm confused. Do you think Russia taking Ukraine by force is what's best for Ukraine? Do you think their people are volunteering to fight because they just don't know what's best for them? Even if Ukrainians wanted to maintain independence out of some misguided patriotism, isn't it their right as a sovereign nation to decide that?
From the US perspective, Ukraine wanted to join NATO, aligning themselves with us. Then Russia invaded. If the US didn't support Ukraine, the world would know they can prevent a weaker country from joining NATO by invading. After Iraq and Afghanistan, there's no desire to send US troops but we can provide weapons and intelligence.
Idk about all that. The US has supported Ukraine and I support that. But Europe has stepped up to the plate too. While US refused to provide long range HIMARS, UK provided Storm Shadow. Poland has donated about all it has. Realistically, the US could drastically reduce it's defense spending, provide all the support Ukraine could want, and still maintain the largest military force by a large margin.
I can see a potential path for it's downfall.
- A competing service starts using AT and starts to get popular.
- BS starts losing money and slowly steers AT protocol to be more friendly to themselves and less friendly to competition.
- Competition forks AT, fragmenting the communities and the whole thing implodes.
In the article, they outline how Blue sky is resistant to that path through the PBLLC structure and ability to move your account when you don't like the web site.
Time will tell if this model works in practice but it could be interesting as an alternative to Twitter without the usability issues normally associated with federation.
I wonder if a porn company could host a server for porn. They could even limit the video links to their site so they can rely on their existing moderation tools while also promoting their site. It's not the best solution since a company is controlling the server but it might be kinda work.