• Maxxie@piefed.blahaj.zone
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    12 days ago

    The last one did stop armed countries doing total war at one another, at the price of everyone being perpetually fifteen minutes away from horrific deaths.

    Is it worth it depends on if/when ICBMs start falling, personally I’m intent on not finding out by living in a big city centre 🙂

    • NotSteve_@piefed.ca
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      12 days ago

      The last one did stop armed countries doing total war at one another

      It just sucks for countries not armed getting attacked by those that are since everyone else is too afraid to step into help directly…

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      12 days ago

      Still no guarantee of the blissful instant kill unfortunately. The ones aimed at your big city may be the ones that fail? Or you big city may be part of a country that somehow doesn’t get directly involved after all?

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      10 days ago

      Adam Connover (of Adam Ruins Everything fame) did an interview with an author (Annie something) about all this. It was very scary to hear the testimonials from past defense department people