No, I think you are confusing the two kinds of trusts: a revocable trust means you still own the money or property, an irrevocable trust means you don’t own it anymore. Either you “give it away” in an irrevocable trust (which can’t be “dissolved”), or you don’t give it away (in a revocable trust).

You are describing putting something in a revocable trust, which is not spending it or giving it away. It’s closer to just putting a label on it: “this money is for charity”. You don’t get a tax deduction unless you put the money in a irrevocable charitable trust or the charity actually receives the money (from any source, trust, whatever).

That’s giving the money away. Either you are still controlling the trusts, or you gave the money to the trusts.

You have to line up musket troops to give them orders too. There’s no radio and you have to shout over the noise and smoke.

Remember, these are black powder guns. They’re loud. If your troops are right next to each other you can more easily direct them to fire, advance, or retreat. Advancing or retreating quickly can take advantage of enemy weaknesses and break up the opposing army. If your guys are spread out, you can’t tell them anything.

Lining up and shooting was the best way to use inaccurate muskets. One guy can’t shoot accurately at all, plus it takes lots of time to reload after each shot.

So you line up 20 dudes and have them shoot 5 or 10 at a time. That makes it more likely to hit something with each volley, and protects the guys who are reloading. The main skill for soldiers wasn’t aiming, it was reloading quickly.

They said AI would take you places. They never said they were places you wanted to go.

They are. And they’re comparing glorious revolutionary China to the dastardly imperialist pig dogs in the US.

Tankies are a confused bunch.

And how good is your marksmanship with the weights in the way,?

Don’t these guns kick up anyway? Wouldn’t you need to hold them down?

I found an interesting article that went into detail on what specifically happened. Your tone indicates that you aren’t going to accept information that contradicts you preconceived ideas. This is for others who may be reading these comments.

“U.S. intelligence estimates that half of the weapons fired by Iran failed upon launch or in flight due to technical issues,” a U.S. Air Force senior officer told The Intercept.

https://theintercept.com/2024/04/15/iran-attack-israel-drones-missiles/

But the test showed them to be a failure? Half the missiles failed on launch and the drones are easily shot down because they’re so slow.

So they got really good data that says their weapons exports kinda suck. If you want to call that a success, go ahead.

Interesting article but this was not a strategic victory for Iran or Israel. Israel had some economic and diplomatic consequences and Iran’s drones are exposed as vulnerable to modern air defenses. Half of their drones and missiles crashed on takeoff. Fewer countries are going to want to buy them after seeing that.

The US, UK, France, and Jordan are the winners because they got a free test taking down a bunch of hostile drones in a real world scenario. They didn’t waste any money that wouldn’t have been spent shooting practice targets anyway.

It’s a normal sized camera. Find a new slant.

Logistics. It’s just oat water but it comes from far away. Just make it yourself.

You would make your own oatmeal, right? Who tf would buy premade oatmeal with the water already in it? If a few people start doing it themselves, they will drop the price of the ready-made stuff.

And the State Department can do whatever it wants. Why would Congress have oversight of a routine maintenance issue for the Executive Branch? They can fly all the pride flags they want and no one can stop them.

The House’s budget power only exists until the item is purchased. It’s actually not very strong. Literally how are they going to enforce this? The Justice Department will be defending the State Department. The House will have… who?

relatively modern NATO-standard tanks are being knocked out by old artillery, immobilized by old mines, and killed by cheap drones.

“Force multiplier” doesn’t mean invincible. By “Gulf Storm” I assume you mean “Desert Storm” during the Persian Gulf War. The coalition forces still lost a lot of tanks, APCs, and airplanes even in victory.

The US in particular sent only 31 Abrams tanks to Ukraine, and none of them were “relatively modern”. Those tanks may have actually been in Desert Storm they’re so old!

These few tanks are designed to work in concert with massive artillery and air superiority fighter bombers, which Ukraine doesn’t have. Right now neither side has a substantial advantage in the air, and Ukraine just doesn’t have enough planes to attack with them.

So the actual thing Ukraine needs is more expensive “force multipliers”, like Patriot missile systems and F-16s. Artillery shells, mines, and drones can’t protect you from those.

PPP doesn’t really matter in modern warfare. A modern stealth fighter bomber (F-35) is expensive no matter what currency you use.

Russia only has a cost advantage in anything you can mass produce, like bullets or dumb artillery shells. The US and Europe have insane smart artillery shells and RPGs that completely destroy Russian tanks, personnel carriers, and dug in positions. They’re expensive no matter who makes them.

Modern weapons and tactics are force multipliers. Money is not really an issue in warfare, only production capacity. The War Production Board in WW2 forced businesses to produce what the military needed at non-inflated prices. Car manufacturers were forced to make tanks and jeeps.

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Conscientious objectors are not jailed.

Anyone can just do community service roles instead of the military. Sounds like only people who completely refuse to help out at all are punished.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherut_Leumi

Sherut Leumi (Hebrew: שירות לאומי, lit. ‘National Service’) is an alternative voluntary form of national service in Israel, as opposed to the mandatory military conscription prevalent in the country. It is designed for individuals who do not meet the eligibility criteria for service in the Israel Defense Forces, or who hold conscientious objections to military enlistment. The program primarily was created for religious Jewish girls aged 17 to 24, although it is open to all applicants who cite diverse grounds for their decision.

The majority work in schools, but can also work in places such as special education, administration, hospitals,[3] law, geriatrics, nursing homes, health clinics, teens at risk, internal security, disadvantaged communities, immigrant assistance, and many other organizations. Acceptance is based on an interview via a placement organizations that try to find the youth appropriate skills, interests, and needs.

If you’re talking about

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fountain_(Duchamp)

that’s a seminal work of avant guard art. You are still talking about it 100 years later. It’s obviously great art.

Art is a work of visual, auditory, or written media that makes you feel emotion. That’s it. Does this pile of rocks make you feel happy or sad or anything? Then it’s art.

AI makes pictures like a camera does. It doesn’t make it art unless you make something that evokes emotion.

creativity has been one of the first walls to fall

Uh, no? Unless you think unhinged nonsense without thought is “creative”. Right now, these programs are like asking a particularly talented insane person to draw something for you.

Creativity is not just creation. It’s creation with purpose. You can “create art” by breaking a vase. That doesn’t mean it’s good art.

at the point AI becomes self-improving

This is not a foregone conclusion. Machines have mostly always been stronger and faster than humans, because humans are generally pretty weak and slow. Our strength is adaptability.

As anyone with a computer knows, if one tiny thing goes wrong it messes up everything. They are not adaptable to change. Most jobs require people to be adaptable to tiny changes in their routine every day. That’s why you still can’t replace accountants with spreadsheets, even though they’ve existed in some form for 50 years.

It’s just a tool. If you don’t want to use it, that’s kinda weird. You aren’t just “debugging” things. You use it as a junior developer who can do basic things.