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Or alternatively (historically), expendable peasants that you don't want to finance painstaking archery training on.

It's not exactly hard to operate a firearm. They are designed to be used by the lowest common denominator of person - total morons.

Loser: "This person is legally bound to me so they can't easily leave even if they want to"

Chad: "This person has no obligation to stay with me, but chooses to because they want to"

Post the person who created the website lolol

Treading water figuring out how to make money somehow when ChatGPT by itself is a colossal money dumpster

Gaming audio still hasn't caught back up to what is was with EAX 5.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gfXTcrxgNxY

Spielberg plays a shitton of CoD, what a shame

Is the range 10x shorter?

Anti-immigrant sentiment in the US has been a thing for hundreds of years. It was commonly called "nativism". Consider watching Scorcese's "Gangs of New York" for a (fictionally dramatized) depiction of it in times past.

As for why mass deportations are possible today - - until the late 1800s, immigration to the US was essentially unregulated. The Chinese Exclusion Act and later systems of quotas and literacy tests introduced around the turn of the 20th century instituted the first national immigration policies.

I frankly don't find it unfair or unreasonable that the US government's executive branch has chosen to enforce existing immigration laws for political gain. Americans should change their immigration laws if they get upset when they're actually enforced. If anything, the executive branch was utterly failing to enforce laws that representatives had placed and kept on the books for a long time. If you want more immigrants, make it easy and legal to receive more immigrants without tests, long wait periods, or country of origin quotas.

I was going to say including India seemed strange, but at that time, Burma was part of India under British rule.

I hate paper money.

Currency was not introduced historically as a store of value. It was and still is a mechanism to represent debt. It is one of limitless replacements for "People are indebted to me and I can transfer some of that to you in exchange for X". Paper, being anonymous, has no intrinsic capability to represent that underlying debt relationship.

This is why it's possible to manufacture fake "debt" via currency counterfeiting. But you know what cannot be counterfeited? The actual debt ledger. Sure, you can defraud someone, or hack into the ledger to record fake entries, but there's always another party listed in the ledger, and the two parties will be able to confirm, deny, or otherwise dispute the authenticity of that ledger entry.

Most importantly, the ledger can be reversed, at least until it's "resolved" and the numbers are no longer pending. If someone steals your cash, or your crypto, or your gold, or your goats, too bad. If you're lucky, maybe some of it can be clawed back by you or law enforcement. But ledgers allow disputes to be handled before debt changes hands.

I can have my bank reverse fraudulent charges if I request it within a day or two. I can have Paypal freeze a transfer. But I can't un-steal my dollar.