Where in thermodynamic principles does it suggest money ought to flow into the pockets of the few?

It might even happen faster than that. If I don't sweep my cement patio for about a month, the decaying leaves from the bushes are enough to make about an 1/8th inch of fresh brown soil under the leaf piles.

Exactly. This is hard to understand when living in a flat in a modern city but it's immediately clear in any other case.

My figure of 1 mm is about the compacted result of decaying and layering. It may vary a lot according to the configuration of the ground.

I hate how parkour infested the fps genre. There's this whole meta now that I don't care about at all yet one has to learn if you don't want to go 3 and 12 and its in most games now.

It has been that way for decades, but prior the parkour stuff was exploiting bugs in game engines and only the top 1% or less of players could even pull off the complex inputs needed.

Personally, I was in the top 10% of HL2DM players but because I couldn't master the inputs for skating I wasn't able to compete with the truly elite tier players who would zip around the map at breakneck speeds.

parkour has been in fps since quake 2 with CTF and grappling hook.

I thought they were on biyearly swapping with treyarch?

Cod4 in some ways was the beginning of the end for a lot that we took for granted in gaming up to that point. I remember when it released and a couple of us went to my friends house to play it. Boy were we in for a shock when there was no coop multiplayer like halo 3.

If MW didn't have co-op multiplayer on console than that's another example of the Mandela effect.

It had split-screen local multiplayer, but you couldn't play online in that configuration

We thought Halo 3 set a sort of standard for gaming on the xbox 360. Where all games would have coop online multiplayer, partying up after the match, everyone using microphones, all talk, custom game lobbies. How wrong we were in hindsight. And how different gaming would have been on consoles if it went this way.

It would probably take you a week just to be competent maintaining the rifle let alone shooting it.

Ok, it does not though. I have taught people with no experience and it takes <10 hours to get to making hits at 300-400 yards. Basic maintenance takes even less time to teach

Anecdotally it can take more time to teach someone who has non-zero experience if that experience has bad habits attached

That isn't really what happens. The unit would just surrender. That's how it went down in WWII early in the pacific campaign. Western nations don't go down to the last man.

Don't count other nations the way you do the US, and don't compare the behaviour of troops defending some piece of jungle on the other side of the planet with those defending their homes.

I mean being given the prospect of the possibility of being treated fairly as a prisoner vs committing suicide I think many would end up being a prisoner. There is no rampant idealism in Canada like say Imperial Japan that would make someone resist their own inherent pragmatism.

In the Battle of Kapyong, Korea [0], Canadian forces refused to retreat from their position, delaying advancing Chinese forces long enough to cause them to regroup. The Canadian forces were encircled, and several times called down artillery on their own positions to clear the assaulting Chinese troops.

The fighting helped blunt the PVA Spring Offensive and the actions of the 2 PPCLI and 3 RAR at Kapyong were critical in preventing a breakthrough against the UN central front, the encirclement of US forces in Korea, which were at that point in general retreat, and ultimately, the capture of Seoul.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Kapyong#Canadian_2_P...

The average cost of a home in Toronto is $1.2M CAD. The only home young able-bodied Canadians are defending is their landlord's.

> Western nations don't go down to the last man.

This may be true but we want any adversary to think that we will! We at least ought to be all able and willing to do so. I hope our generals and military command know better but I want them to have multiple options and I want any adversary to have to think twice before breaching our shores.

outside edmonton and calgary the vast majority of the canadian population is within 100 miles of the US border. now imagine the logistics of a land invasion from northern canada. Shortest distance would be 1600 miles of wilderness. If you went from alert it would be more like 2500 miles of wilderness and several water crossings. All while you are being absolutely pummeled by US air support. It would be a suicide mission that would make the Kokoda Track campaign look like a boy scout trip.

It is such a different situation in europe. Helsinki is 100 miles from the russian border with road, highway, and rail connectivity and within reach of most of Russias air power.

I think they might legitimately be worried about an invasion from the south.

Some of them are worried, but it depends on which echo chamber they subscribe to based on my on the ground northern information network.

I'd be surprised if they'd last longer than a week if the US were really committed.

That's what Putin thought as well.

Well, putins military is a little bit different than the american military industrial complex.

They should worry more about the international flights from overseas.

Canada is not afraid of an invasion through the north. They fear an invasion of the north. They fear the north itself being taken, not that someone is going to drive south.

Same issue then. Elmendorf and Malmstrom are a whole lot closer than Murmansk and Moscow.

You should look into Moe Norman. Legendary golfer on the spectrum. You might catch the bug like he did. A round of golf is about 5-6 miles of walking.

This discounts the effects of things like shills (commercial or government) or propaganda in general and its quieting effect on discussion. Yes, there are conspiracy theories, but there is a reason why they end up relegated to the quacks and aren't broached upon at all, save for in jest perhaps, by mainstream sources of information. I mean really consider the actual diversity of thought among mainstream sources in this country. It is astoundingly limited and entirely biased towards neoliberalism. Our political spectrum is extremely narrow and differentiated by only a small handful of hobby horse issues.