moderock

• moderock 18 May 2019 1:28 UTC

  3 points

  in reply to: sara-34’s comment on: The 3 Books Tech­nique for Learn­ing a New Skilll

  This sounds like a topic worth digging into. Don’t suppose you have a curated list of books (or other resources) to share?

• moderock 18 May 2019 1:29 UTC

  2 points

  in reply to: Hazard’s comment on: The 3 Books Tech­nique for Learn­ing a New Skilll

  I have a question in a similar vein—how would one go about finding resources that don’t have immediately available reviews—videos, blogs, etc?

• moderock 6 Nov 2019 0:15 UTC

  3 points

  on: Speak­ing up pub­li­cly is heroic

  As being publicly accused of rape or sexual assault carries severe penalties for the accused, how do you intend to deal with false accusations?

• moderock 8 Jun 2020 5:35 UTC

  3 points

  on: Most re­li­able news sources?

  Thank you for asking this question!

• moderock 11 Jun 2020 6:32 UTC

  2 points

  in reply to: Dave Lindbergh’s comment on: The prin­ci­ple of no non-Apologies

  I’ve made it a point to build up a set of phrases that allow me to express sympathy, and which have the advantage of being clearly visible expressions, rather than hollow tokens.

  For example: “Your mom got cancer? That’s a bad deal. Make it a point to spend as much time with her as you can. What can I do to help?”

• moderock 31 May 2021 7:50 UTC

  6 points

  on: [Pre­dic­tion] What war be­tween the USA and China would look like in 2050

  My understanding of the present state of Taiwan is that they are unprepared for war in any real sense. Sure, they’ve bought a decent amount of American military technology, but that seems to be it.

  Total war requires the preparation of the entire populace. Taiwan has not done this, and I doubt the present government intends to do so. Not only do you basically have to train your populace in terrorism, you also need to equip them with caches of a variety of weapons, entirely outside of government control.

  Azerbaijan and Armenia’s recent war shows just how the game has changed. Armenia had a much more capable and better-trained infantry. Azerbaijan had the latest in drone technology. “Guerrillas hiding in the mountains” don’t fare well against combined-arms forces with FLIR-equipped drones.

  The defensive proposition of total war is that you force any would-be invader to kill most, if not all, of the local population to achieve victory. Both during the initial invasion, as well as during at least a full generation of occupation.

  In essence, you leave only two options on the table: “Leave us in peace” or “In exchange for us inflicting massive casualties upon your forces, you will receive what remans of a barren rock full of refugees, along with at least one full generation of terrorism levied against your people by ours. As a bonus, we are both native speakers of the same language and lack any visual ethnic distinction. Isn’t that fun?”