Here, let me wikipedia that for you:

> MITRE formed in 1958 as a military think tank, spun out from the radar and computer research at the MIT Lincoln Laboratory. Over the years, MITRE's field of study had greatly diversified. In the 1990s, with the winding down of the cold war, private companies complained that MITRE had an unfair advantage competing for civilian contracts; in 1996 this led to the civilian projects being spun off to a new company, Mitretek. Mitretek was renamed Noblis in 2007.

It had the appetite but not the pretext under the foolish warmongers GWB and Cheney. The US was rehearsing for exactly this with a high tempo of operations including naval air sorties in the area during their administration. Unfortunately, their other "mission accomplished" wars didn't go so well.

Now, the US doesn't have them anymore and so this is extremely unlikely because Biden has zero interest in military adventurism.

It's the art of making the juggling with swords seem safe and easy while making a daily commute through a minefield of UB seem routine.

And there's a second minefield called the portable build solution, but we don't talk about it much.

As a non-native speaker I appreciate comments like GP, because they let me improve my English and speak better. It's not pedantic if the "shamer" is obviously right (I've consulted internet and it looks like he is). I think correcting other people speech is valuable because it lets us all understand each other better.

Same, didn't read any shaming at all here :-)

if you read shaming in my comment, it was a misread. it's of course perfectly fine & great to not be a native speaker

An existentially unfulfilled life can be as much of a prison or torture as any physical illness. Treatment resistant depression also can cause great suffering. If I were in the condition of disability that denied living a full life, I would also contemplate an orderly shuffling off of this mortal coil. The problem now is that having raised a taboo personal right, the knee-jerk clinical patronizing automatic response is to provide therapy, counseling, and mood altering medications perhaps up to and including involuntary treatment without informed consent. They then become caught in a Catch-22 that does not prioritize an individual's wishes.

That website doesn't work from my ISP. Can't even ping it or nc -z 104.37.63.7 443.

Edit update: Your security infrastructure is broken because I don't know what that is and don't use Twitter. If you check the AS, it's Google Fiber. And I'd appreciate it if you wouldn't dox me.

Not sure why. Out of the 26 IP addresses that accessed the egawk repository in the last day or so, only one was banned. The client identified as Twitterbot, coming from 136.49.X.X.

That isn't your dox: if you can't even ping it, you wouldn't have been able to request a specific repository, and won't appear in that access log.

I made it clear it's something reporting itself as "Twitterbot". Unlikely to be your web browser, unless you went out of your way to impersonate Twitterbot. Still, I only quoted two octets out of the IPv4 Class B address, even though I feel that it would be fine to reveal the full address of a bot.

Unions don't go far enough because workers would still remain beholden to the whims of owners and unequal profit sharing. Worker-owned co-ops are how to structurally transform conditions and fairness to respect the interests of employees.

The nuclear engineering consultancy I worked at in the 90's was one such example.

In aggregate, American workers are wimps and low information consumers. They don't realize how bad they have it, what the problem is, or how to solve it practically even if they did. Instead, they have been indoctrinated with a red scare and damnatio memoriae about their own history of socialism and organized labor anything that doesn't worship at the alter of corporate profits.

It’s not limited to the USA though. We have the same issue in France, and I guess most European countries.

Yes, absolutely. Worker-owned co-ops and unions, including and especially knowledge workers. There are scant few other viable mechanisms to ensure long-term stability in under-regulated democratic societies.