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Tech is mostly responsible. The demise of service has been going on since at least the invention of the telephone. Unions have varying amounts of collective intelligence that shows up as intelligent bargaining and adaptation to reality; CUPW is very low on the list. They doggedly try to...

"We are against whatever Trump is for" is just as bad for health policy as leaping to unjustified conclusions about causation. Minimal uses of doses of chemicals at levels beyond what is available in nature is an obvious precautionary principle. Fermentation occurs in nature; 80 proof spirits...

Bane of many units. How the f*ck enthusiastic no-nonsense soldiering-focused new officers end up as Col Blimps ready for retirement into the unit association escapes me.

I will argue vehemently for the reverse. The Res F can not and should not plan to sustain and train itself, except at the lowest level (decentralized execution of central planning). By central planning, I mean more than the usual statement of aims which gets passed off as "plan" in political...

An alternative is to carve up trades into specialties for Res F.

Not quite. They will have to start as MLBUs and prove they are capable of working up from there.

Not everything desirable on our napkins should be attempted at once.

What we need to conscript is enough tanks (and other equipment) for the newly-proposed formations.

The US Army looks pretty viable from here. I'll concede immediately, though, that we don't know what would happen if (as is usually the case) the US got involved in a war abroad (eg. Ukraine or South China Sea) and casualties were heavier than anything experienced in the past four decades.

Crony capitalism is a political problem. Every entrepreneur works every possible angle; he isn't really doing his "duty" if he doesn't. If politicians create opportunities for lobbying, of course corporations are going to lobby - to fail to do so would be to yield an opportunity to...

Criticizing Americans for not volunteering in adequate numbers for a proxy war on someone else's behalf in a country few knew much about in order to clean up a French mess doesn't really resonate as a criticism of American civic spirit where America is concerned.

The US has arguably created the worlds pre-eminent society-that-values-military-service.

Even if he does a 180 for now, a future LPC government - and certainly there will be some - will change it right back. Anyone who is a pro-gun single issue voter would be a sucker to ever vote LPC.

Pretty sure it's even less of a "Liberal Minority Government" sub-topic than my obsession with future media economics. [Add: sounds like a candidate for "Radio Chatter"]

If we're going to have 10 fully-manned and -equipped brigades, similar to USAR or USNG, it makes sense. Otherwise, we're just cosplaying "operational" formations and would be better off with a (probably geographically partitioned) structure that has a training and administration backbone in...

So Trump is the weather in Wainwright...if you don't like it, wait 15 minutes.

Yes, when the communicability and severity and even the existence of a pandemic threat are in doubt, we should err in favour of restrictive precautions and only pull back later, if at all (your morally superior choice). It wasn't too far in that it was obvious it was not the second coming of...

Either it will be a CBC that offers a genuine balance satisfactory to left and right, or there will be it and a right-leaning privately funded competitor.

In the US some journalists basically got hounded out of newsrooms, or left in disgust/dismay. For them, it's not a side hustle. In Canada, my recollection is that Paul Wells claimed he was faring better as an independent than as an employee. Substack provides access to customers without the...

That's to be expected. I've watched all the Mad Max documentaries.