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Blanche is literally Trump's lawyer and has been for years. That's his deal - he knows how to kiss his ass just right, and doesn't really mind that it makes him sound like a sycophantic empty-minded toady just reaching for that next rung on the ladder.

I'd be surprised if it's not uncommon. Cruise ships tend to skew older. If they mostly did cruises that catered towards elderly vacationers, I can see more than a few of them just buying it just from the law of averages.

Ah damn, I knew I had missed the market for expansionist foam.

Oh nah, if this is anything, it's another push to expand the military budget in ANOTHER bid to privatize the military, something he and his have been on for years.

As we all know from COVID, if you don't have data on a thing, it stops existing.

Can we get Scaramucci back?

I can't wait to see Dr Phil get arrested on camera by the Danish army.

Target identification, threat assessment, determining level of force necessary, simply being a human face rather than a machine. Drones are also vulnerable to electrical issues, signal issues, all sorts of things a human simply doesn't need to worry about or are more easily remedied in a human.

Occupying land is not simply about killing the enemy, and multiple armies have learned this over the course of human history. Rarely are you concerned with SIMPLY taking the land - even if it's agrarian capacities or whatever you're worried about, having the employees still alive (largely) leads to better outcomes. Having a functioning economy in the occupied zone leads to less resistance. Facilitating the continuity of life within the occupied zone does too - and that doesn't work if your "occupation force" is a bunch of robot dogs that mow down anyone for being in the street.

Also, he can't feel shame or regret, not in the way most of us do. The reflection pool thing was, in his mind, NEVER his fault, and it'll always be someone else's fault. He's got an infinite money bucket and enough political power to make sure he doesn't need to actually come close to actually colliding with reality.

Drones cannot occupy a city. Drones cannot hold land. Even in the grim darkness of the 21st century, a drone is far more susceptible to outside factors eliminating its fighting capability than a human soldier standing in the same spot. At the end of the day, yes, a bulk of the fighting will be done by remote, but you'll still need meatbags with guns to actually advance and take areas. There's really no way to get around that unless we somehow develop autonomous robots that are able to make smart choices and strategize on the ground without human oversight, and I simply don't see us managing any serious level of "AGI" from the current idea of machine learning, at all.

Why wouldn't they? The investigatory agency for this is the USCG, and last I recall, the man in charge of Homeland Security and the rest of the US is pretty comfy with doing favors for his billionaire friends.

It also just has a lot of really cool factions to fight in general. I will always love the Clockwork.