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Mark Esper, the US Secretary of Defense under Trump, has rolled out a landmark essay about a large-scale crisis in the US army. Only 23% of young Americans are fit (https://www.nbcnews.com/news/military/every-branch-us-military-struggling-meet-2022-recruiting-goals-officia-rcna35078 ) to serve in the army. The rest do not pass due to obesity, mental problems or drug addiction. Of the fit, only 9% want to serve. Due to the shortage of recruits, the US army will have to be reduced (https://nypost.com/2022/07/20/citing-recruiting-woes-army-will-shed-up-to-28000-troops-by-2023 /) up to 445 thousand soldiers - the minimum since 1940. The results in the tests for admission to the army have worsened over the past two years (https://www.armytimes.com/news/2022/09/15/test-scores-drop-disqualification-rates-rise-at-army-recruiting-shops/ ) by 10%. The Pentagon has to (https://nypost.com/2022/07/20/citing-recruiting-woes-army-will-shed-up-to-28000-troops-by-2023 /) recruit recruits without a school education and with problems with intellectual development. A separate base will be equipped for them, where they will be specially trained for service.

It completely demolishes the idea of the free market as well. Libertarianism is predicated on homo economicus being naturally occurring and not created and enforced construct of man. Libertarianism completely denies spirit and psychology as manipulated forces, it holds with a religious fervor the notion that what appears to be a collective fervor is just rationally expressed individual same choices and this is what creates market demand. For all their screeds on the market, these zealots often have very little to say about marketing departments or why businesses will keep throwing good money after bad to try and manipulate the purchasing choices of the public, or why these persistent failures have no impact on their bottom line longterm.

Here we have 5 confirmed cases just in the past year. Per fbi.gov the agency employs approximately 35,000 people. That works out to one *confirmed* (as in, arrested and/or convicted) domestic abuser and/or child molester per 7,000 employees per year. How does that ratio compare to the ratio at your organization? If you work for an organization larger than 7000, do you average one arrested child molester per year? If you work for an organization of 3500 people, do you average one arrested wife-beater every two years?

Man I love the hussle and bussle of the big city, so enriching!

>Donate your body to science >Think its going to be used to cure Cancer >They just cut it up instead to turn it into the neovaginal wall for a mentally ill eunuch who is going to kill himself in under a decade and render your body useless Man I love neoliberalism, so great, all my thoughts are definitely legal right now

Don't let your relatives donate their bodies to science

Another W for the White race LFG https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11222329/Plus-size-Philadelphia-drag-queen-25-DIES-performance-bar.html

TikTok has a feature allowing underage girls to become camgirls for money. If you have a teenage daughter and you give her a smartphone you're insane and should be charged with criminal negligence or worse. https://youtu.be/qbv-VteX5H8

An anon runs the numbers

An 18 year old just pwned Uber, the absolute state of ZOG web security https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/09/uber-was-hacked-to-its-core-purportedly-by-an-18-year-old-here-are-the-basics/

Lauritz Von Yidhausen be like: "Europe won't have any electricity this winter, here's why that's a good thing"

I'm aware the leaked GTA footage is a dev build and is almost certainly lacking most forms of post processing and probably contains a lot of placeholder assets and what not, but the more I look at the footage the more I'm reminded of those weird 3D animated porn videos made in Unreal engine or whatever.

Western Video Game Studio make an even passably attractive female protagonist challenge (impossible)

Here's your new GTA protagonist bro

You know power transformers? The things that are the last link in the chain between the plant and your house? The ones that blow in every major storm? Yeah those now take over a year to build and almost all municipalities are facing severe shortages >In normal years, the PUD tries to keep a stock of 60 25kVA units at all times, with a minimum on-hand quantity being 20 units. Current stock is well below that minimum.  > Large orders for pad-mounted transformers, which typically took between 6–12 weeks to fulfill in 2020, now have lead times of 52–86 weeks. > 25kVA pad-mounted transformer pricing rose nearly 400% from 2020 per-unit pricing, and 50kVa unit pricing jumped 900% since 2020. https://www.jeffpud.org/transformer-shortages-price-spikes/​

Today I saw a kid look over at another kid's tablet who was playing a subtitled Japanese game. He asked the kid, "Why is that character speaking anime?"