Exactly WHO is going to take care of them?

You still need doctors, nurses and care givers to operate the geriatric departments, nursing homes and assisted living facilities. What kind of patient - doctor ratio are we going to have before quality of care degrades to an unacceptable level?

Its not the current generation of elderly that’s going to be in trouble. Its the subsequent generations. You can import labor but where will you import from when every other country is also facing an aging population?

We do not yet have robots capable of replacing caregivers. Its not just a money issue. Its a manpower problem as well.

What if we burned a flag, not in protest, but in celebration of the very freedoms that allow us to burn a flag in the first place?

Unless you were Dick Cheney.

Laser sperm!

Man hitting one of those plates means jackpot.

Bronze lasts a long time because it barely corrodes in the right conditions compared to iron/steel which rusts the moment you look at it wrong.

Here’s one that was made sometime around 700 BC and is in absolutely pristine conditions because the scabbard was so well made it was a practically air tight seal around the sword.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sword_of_Goujian

Have you tried spitting back?

If you’re saying that you clearly haven’t tried Linux. Once you tried it you too will be changed for life and only ever preach the wonders of linux/s

The problem with buying pets on a whim is twofold.

1. The animal gets abandoned. They never pick up the necessary skills to survive on their own in the wild, they die miserably by starvation or exposure.
2. The breeders see the high demand (especially after something like ninja turtles or finding nemo) and breed animals excessively, when demand dies off thousands of excess pets that no longer sell are abandoned or euthanized.

Who is she?

Good luck with the tankies and 50 cent army.

Im slow af. Just realized this is the principal skinner meme but DND.

Oh god I can hear the tempo of the panic music picking up…

That was wild. Thanks for sharing that little story and Thank you for your service. Glad you’re still with us to be able to share this.

Last time no have pronoun

I think its safe to say any external force would have a massive difficulty taking out anything of strategic value or military within CONUS.

Now do the Comically bad midnight ambush!

Hell of a pilot to land that thing safely after what you did to it. /s

If you’re even half competent, you could (not recommended) actually do some basic electrical work at home and come out of it alive and well after a few youtube videos and some reasonable precautions. I can’t same the same about mushroom foraging.

Even if we massively downgraded the US military, reduced the air force, navy, army, marines and put them exactly on par with the Russians in terms of technology, manpower and equipment , took away all allies, we removed the vast gun ownership by the general population. The US still has one massively unassailable advantage.

Geography.

The nearest major naval base to the US is about 5000 miles. By sea, thats more than a week’s worth of travel going full steam. Which realistically is the only way to bring the absolutely massive amounts of troops and supplies needed to invade the US, given that most of Russia’s transport aircraft can’t even fly that distance when loaded.

So after a week of travelling by sea, and having given plenty of time for the US to mobilize its forces and prepare a defense, you now have to somehow make a contested landing with what’s left of the navy that didn’t already get sunk on the way over. What’s left of that landing now has to fight in heavily built up areas, of which either coast is going to be a nightmare but LA would be the worse of the two given the large open spaces where snipers positioned in tall buildings could pin down entire companies and call in air and artillery strikes as needed.

New York is going to be no fun either because you essentially have to demolish each building you come across like what we see the Russian army doing to various fronts in Ukraine, the only way they’ve been able to make gains is to remove ALL defensible positions otherwise your army gets picked off and ambushed as they make their way through the cities.

While all this is being done, your troops need ammunition, fuel, food which is 5000 miles away while the US has everything it needs in its backyard. This invasion is dead in its tracks before they hit central park in NY or Disneyland in LA.