wewbull @ wewbull @feddit.uk

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To me this is tinkering with the edges of a broken system. How about some proper voting reform?

Weirdly, you can only die for your country with parental consent if you're under 18.

Do people actually see this as a good thing?

For me it's just messing with the edges of a broken system.

What I meant was I thought I'd read that because the design originally had those elements in place, the QE class carriers had left the design characteristics in place to support the launch systems, in particular the structural load bearing aspects.

Not that they'd need a ground up refit.

Certainly the navy is looking a the possibility of doing this.

https://www.navalnews.com/event-news/cne-2023/2023/06/uk-project-ark-royal-catapult-aircraft-carriers/

https://www.twz.com/royal-navy-wants-to-refit-its-carriers-with-catapults-arresting-wires

Legion was a GREAT show.

That it has shitty shower thoughts.

Golgafrinchian Ark style.

It's almost as if a big part of the current hype is just sociopath CEOs being sociopaths, but not being self aware about it.

NATO is a military organisation. Trade is civilian.

You don't see the US joint chiefs weighing in on the tariff discussion, nor the head of the UK armed forces weighing in on Brexit.

Not quite what I was thinking, but better than 4 years a piece.

Why does the NATO chief feel he's free to talk about trade relations?

They shouldn't be inside at all. We don't have the prison space to spend on things like this. It should be dealt with in the community.

We're in the middle of a prison crisis. We don't have room for people who chopped down a tree, even if it was a really pretty one.

I believe they can still be retrofitted, right?

Obviously that would mean extensive time in dock.

...and will ship them to the front lines.

They stream data from it while you play, so if you don't have an SSD you'll get pauses in game play.

"We apologize for the inconvenience"

Fair enough.

My personal experience is that we're often unaware of the contradictions until something external happens. It might be someone pointing it out or just a passing comment in an overheard conversation. Something needs to jostle the noggin.

That's why I said what I did. You can't fix what you're oblivious too. However once you are aware, you have the power to choose to do something about it. Sounds like you exercised that power. Good for you.

To say I haven't fallen victim to cognitive dissonance would be a lie. However, I learned how to avoid it and resolve conflicts in my own beliefs over time.

I like the self-awareness of the first half, but I think the second half is likely bullshit. Unless you've become a being of total rational thought and zero emotion, I don't think it is possible.

First thing to realise is that people only repair dissonance alone and in private. As you say, debates and arguments don't help.

I just try to engage on the positive topics and not engage on the negative ones. I'm honest about why I think what I think, but I don't try to convince anyone. I say when I don't know something. I don't make shit up that I can be proved wrong about, even if that means letting something go unchallenged.

You won't convince people that something they see as a problem isn't a problem, but what you might be able to do is get people to look at alternative solutions. People don't want to be brutal and uncaring, but they that can get there when it's their last option.

Then occasionally you get a "something you said stuck with me" several days later, or maybe you don't but something did stick with them. They incorporate the idea Into their thinking and start slowly shifting.