The power vacuum created by the invasion of Afghanistan is not the same as USAID funding poppy farming. Correlation is not causation. When the Taliban was overthrown local poppy growers took advantage. We didn’t move in there with the intent to grow more opium.

From an article dated last year:

“This is false. USAID never intended to support opium poppy cultivation or the Taliban, and in fact the United States sought to stem it. The White House cites a right-wing news site’s account of a 2018 report by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) — whom President Donald Trump recently fired — that found that USAID efforts to fund alternative development projects during the George W. Bush administration (2005 to 2008) had failed. The Taliban before 2001 had successfully banned poppy cultivation, but the U.S. invasion led to a power vacuum that was exploited by poppy growers. USAID was the lead U.S. agency for implementing alternative development projects, modeled after a more successful effort in Colombia, but the report documented how conflicts among agencies and with allies hampered the effort. It’s a stretch to now, years later, accuse USAID of helping the Taliban.”

Also, before you come at me for posting a WaPo link, the author of that Yahoo article is a hardline Libertarian and right wing weirdo. He’s literally an editor of Reason Magazine. So, I’ll take the WaPo article over him just about any day of the week.

Ummm… Welcome to Early Access?

My 24 year old DeviantArt account, probably. Don’t know what I had before that. Oh, and my steam account turns 22 this year, I think.

Listen, I’m trying to doomscroll, not read my psych eval.

Something something trickle down

Where you from again?

So, basically a movie?

A very sturdy IUD.

I’m being downvoted because I wasn’t explicitly blaming AI for all of our problems like everyone seems to want to do now. It’s a scapegoat for so much shit. Honestly, it dilutes the real problems with it, like power consumption, and the hardware shortages. But, no, we have to blame everything on AI, because no one was lazy before ChatGPT came around.

I kinda wish this was a reward for the early purchasers. Buy the EA release and you get free DLC at launch that gives you the option to use placeholder art or new art. Hades II had some great placeholder art and it’s all gone now.

Doesn’t sound like an AI problem, sounds like a lazy student problem. These are students that would have done poorly before AI and tried to use other methods to slide by easier. You aren’t seeing anything new, you are just using the reason du jour to blame it on.

That might be one of the dumbest things I’ve read in a while…

Edit: Ok, I can already see the downvotes coming, but seriously, think about what OP is saying. Openly hoping for WW3. Getting Russia involved against the US, while already weakened by their war on Ukraine, is just the opportunity that the US military meat grinder wants to justify action against Russia. You can condemn the actions of the US and Russia in the same sentence. You don’t have to choose a side here. Saying “I’m glad Russia is attacking the US” isn’t a great stance to have in the current climate. Makes you sound like a warmongering idiot, regardless of how much you dislike anyone involved.

Your heart is in the right place, but maybe avoid that hard R in the future.

Very likely a confirmation of this would have been in his medical records. If his records were to be subpoenaed by a court to corroborate this, then we’d have something, but 40+ years on, they are long destroyed by now, so we are out of luck.

And I’m not interested in having a conversation with someone who can’t even pick a side of the fence to argue from. I hear the Libertarians are recruiting, maybe they are more your flavor.

I didn’t even look at your post history. It’s just that Linux users and defenders of Anarchism as a true system of power have a very narrow Venn diagram.

Let me guess, you use Linux?

Nah, it’s just that eventually you realize there is more to life that questioning your parents and wearing black.

Edit: Don’t worry, you can still circle your As.

Don’t worry, when you graduate high school you’ll drop the anarchist bit, too.