Reprap currently only prints in plastic. You need metal capability, which can be done but is harder to build. And then you need whatever newly patented tech was used here, which should be available for use in about 20 years.

I completely agree. Forced conscription is plainly slavery. And I stand with John Brown on that issue.

Trump is bone spurs. He’s the one who dodged the draft that way.

But otherwise, yeah. He’s an abuser and will always look for someone weaker.

I wouldn’t call Batista’s reign “mob rule”. It sounds more like a military dictatorship.

Automation won’t do it right. And that’s the goal.

Besides, Wikipedia has always been human written for humans. Or at least, that too is the goal.

Altering the content of the archive certainly is different. And is undeniably worse.

Puerto Rican singer/rapper.

He turned the Superbowl halftime show into an actual wedding for a friend.

He’s got a good voice, but if I spoke Spanish I’d likely not enjoy the music as much, he mostly seems to sing about clubbing and the ladies and other typical young adult party music stuff, which just isn’t my bag anymore because I still use terms like “my bag”.

You just said it yourself. Top Secret. But it’s not super common.

Secret is almost automatic, but Top Secret is not. No, you need a special investigation into your background. You get a psych eval, your parents, neighbors, teachers, and highschool classmates are also interviewed.

It’s a process that can take months or even a year or two.

So no, the military does not go through that process with everyone.

So yeah, the only people getting psych evals are the sort of people who the military needs to trust implicitly. People who work on classified shit, or people who might need to be evaluated to see if they’re going to snap and kill everyone because of the fucked up shit they went through on their last combat deployment.

And not everyone deploys, and of those who do, not everyone goes outside the wire.

So yeah, there’s a huge selection bias right there that gives you your 20% nonsense.

I made NCO. I still never got a psych eval. It wasn’t part of the process.

Again, if I had needed a Top Secret clearance there would have been one, but I never needed anything beyond Secret, which did not come with a psych eval.

The vast majority of people never get Top Secret, and never get a psych eval unless something comes up, like a major fuckup or certain combat roles.

I was a member of the US military. I never got any form of psych eval, and neither did anyone I knew, except for people who had a Top Secret clearance.

So your hours of reading are just wrong, or you didn’t understand something. It happens.

So yeah, the people who were likely to get a psych eval were the people most likely to need one. And that creates selection bias.

The military doesn’t give everyone a psych eval.

Anyone seeking a higher clearance goes through one. But that’s not a full accounting, the vast majority of people never need a clearance beyond the general Secret that almost everyone gets. No real psych eval for that.

Some specialized jobs get them as well. And I think some combat jobs get them by default… but mostly no. It’s just the standard, “can this person both follow orders and be trusted to do the job they were hired for?”