And what are you going to do with that money?

US t-bill (4w) until the market crashes. For 401K, I'll just move it to money market/bond.

We don't really need to maximize the profits all the time. Not losing the money is good too.

What is shameful about the "military stuff"? Isn't that's what is protecting you from your neighbors and their patron?

> Cancer is best understood as a family of tens of thousands of diseases

There's a site that lists the AWS instance types, so maybe...

If you think suicidal fanatics or megalomaniacal dictators are motivated by sub-optimal resource allocation, you haven't been paying attention.

> “I’m not going to spend my time doing war” (in my case anymore)

It's less convenient to indulge that opinion without the protection of the most powerful military in the world.

Ah yes this old chestnut

Come back to me after you serve in combat. The dod doesn’t protect anything but investors’ returns.

I’ll have two time Medal of Honor winner explain it to you:

https://archive.org/details/WarIsARacket

I don't need a 13 page pamphlet to convince me that people are motivated by making money. But that's orthogonal to wanting a powerful military under whose umbrella you are pontificating.

The DOW (the dow right now, is it over 50 thou?) only protects capital interests as the other user said. You can't expect it to protect you unless your interests align with capital.

Are Iranians feeling protected? No, are Americans protected from Iran? Also no. Are gas companies protected from low prices? Hell yeah they are!

Better title: Fn Fn keys

Israel is America's biggest ally and an active war zone. Of course it's relevant to most war things that are going on right now.

You don't think the US military should have the best technology?

I don't mind it having the latest technology; I just don't want it to exist. How long do we think the US military will persist in the universe? 5,000 years? 1,000? 500? 100? Surely it's closer to the last among these answers than the first.

What we need is peaceful, sober deprecation of this institution, and in particular, decommissioning of the nuclear arsenal. And there's no good reason that can't start today.

How do you reconcile that aspiration with lunatics and their regimes that would like to do harm to other countries?

Thanks for sharing. Do you have a name for that feeling?

You don't have to guess. That's why he wrote an essay for you.

The essay establishes him as the sole reliable augur for history and "missing the mark" in Israel.

No credible author asks that of their audience, I'd challenge you to name a single one that does.