Seems to be a very awkward construction of a boring platitude. Not PhD level thinking. Maybe you read it that way to make it more interesting.

This reeks of Homer Simpson's "Press any key to continue" gag joke:

https://twitter.com/peterrhague/status/1440936891201859587

Wow. This is news?

I do not know of a single submarine-service veteran who would not have rushed to the aid of K-141 Kursk, even as our job was to kill it without warning in combat.

All forces who have trained hard recognize a fundamental difference between themselves and others who have not done so. It is a social phenomena not only recognized by Tom Hanks, as he insisted on drilling the actors representing CPT Miller's squad, it is a major problem when it develops an "us vs. them" attitude between organized forces and the idle public.

Six, there's another nasty side to "upgrade fever" - the idea that new = good: your Federal government has been victimized by Microsoft and others who insist on "modernizing" tasks that have not changed. $Millions have been consumed simply "upgrading" to Windows 10, and there are many projects where gee-whiz tech has been applied for no ROI.
You may be sure that Outlook and Teams, both using Microsoft Exchange servers, have been mandated for Federal contractors including those handing Special Nuclear Material... and Exchange was hacked in June '21.

@Radwaste,

If it's any consolation, most of the time the Chinese bureaucrats are too busy sabotaging each other, that's why even though they have stolen every single piece of tech from the world, everything they manage to accomplish is a broken, half-assed project.

"...everything they manage to accomplish is a broken, half-assed project."

You sound very like those pundits before WW2, who insisted that Japanese pilots were nearsighted bumpkins with thick glasses.

It is unwise at best to underestimate a rival.

Between the USA and China, which nation is in decline? Which nation assures its people constantly that they are incapable of self-rule (and which started out that way)? Which nation has spent itself into an unsustainable position because its leaders buy votes?

"Between the USA and China, which nation is in decline?" ~Radwaste

Both! But China has a current history of trying to make up for that decline with military action.

@Radwaste,

I'm being realistic about it. They are progressing at a snail pace thanks to the sheer amount of corruption that makes politicians in places like Detroit and San Francisco green with envy.

There's Karens and then there's LaKarenishas:

https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1441202362073239553

Yeah, the ladies made a big stink but those guys went into the multicultural center with Police Matters stickers... you're not gonna convince me they weren't looking to start shit. Why else would a bunch of white guys pick the multicultural center to study.

...you're not gonna convince me they weren't looking to start shit.... ~ NicoleK at September 24, 2021 6:05 AM

I don't think they were trying to start something, but they were definitely trying to get a reaction. And Miss Multicultural Karen obliged them.

Now, a public university providing a presumably student-funded space that students are encouraged to believe is off limits to "certain" students should be concerning to all.

When I was in college, the Student Union was presumed to be for all students. So, when the gay students organization was denied office space in the Union, the campus was in an uproar until the denied office space was restored to it.

Stickers aren't polite, period. Even bumper stickers. No matter how benign the message MIGHT be.

As Fran Lebowitz said in the 1970s:

"If people don't want to hear from you, what makes you think they want to hear from your sweater?"

(Of course, one doesn't expect any young person to understand her point - those people were raised by millennials who BOUGHT onesies with "cute" messages for their Gen Z babies. To them, there's nothing rude about forcing other people to hear them, regardless of the time or place.)

Cool beans, Lenona. Good to know a sticker you don't like is more rude than confronting someone, calling them a racist (falsely), and then trying to get them forcibly removed.

Excuse me, I NEVER said it was "more rude."

It's just that two wrongs don't make a right.

And there's no point in committing little rudenesses daily just because they are free speech.

Yes, of course nasty busybodies need to learn to control themselves - and acknowledge they're being worse. But, as Miss Manners has said, it doesn't matter who first lowered the standards of common courtesy at any given time or place; what matters is that the standards ARE being lowered, and that everyone who does that is responsible. Bad behavior tends to snowball - and provoke others. (She's also mentioned the folly of flashing gang signals or wearing gang colors at the wrong times or places.)

For the record, when I wore an I LOVE NY t-shirt in my early teens, my mother wasn't happy about my wearing anything with writing on it, but she didn't make a big deal - and I never asked for any other such clothing, then or later. Or bought any.

Or to put it another way, it already goes without saying that the other person behaved worse, and I wasn't about to do nothing but echo Sixclaws.

"... it already goes without saying that the other person behaved worse ..." ~Lenona

Actually it doesn't. Both group's behavior is common. Spend any time on the west coast and you will find racist Karen is considered very well behaved and polite.

All I know is, in Real Life, I don't see strangers angrily confronting other strangers who were mostly minding their own business the way that man was.

Much in the same way that on the rare occasions I'm in restaurants, I DON'T see little kids being allowed by their parents to run around and endanger the waiters - or even scream a lot.

But on Twitter and other media, of course, people PREFER to hear stories of rudeness, so those are what get highlighted.

The times I've visited the west coast behavior like this by the girls isn't condemned. The guys would be condemned and held fully morally responsible. You don't see it much because everyone knows what the acceptable actions are and largely conform to them. But when you have a mixture of west coast and other US cultures things like this happen all the time. It is the main reason most Californians don't survive outside of California for too long. 1-2 years and they move back. They don't like being a minority and have no intention of assimilating into the culture that predominates in the area they moved to.

It is the same reason we don't have people 'peacefully protesting' here in Houston by burning houses down. They will be shot. We also don't have antifa blocking highways and streets. They got shot (and almost run over in a few high profile cases). That doesn't mean we are shooting and killing each other every day. People know what is and what is not acceptable behavior and they adapt to not get hurt. But when we had a mix of cultures as the antifa astroturf army showed up in their busses some of them ended up in the hospital and within a few days most of them had packed up and bussed off. Shooting them for what they had done was and still is considered perfectly polite behavior here.

So yes you do have to say. We don't share a culture. I don't have a copy of your unwritten rules. What you think goes without saying is just being unsaid.

And that works for me too. If I don't say it I don't say it. My unwritten rules apply only to me. If I want something else then I need to write them down.

Something's fishy here. I just searched on "is Houston dangerous" (without quotation marks) and this was the first result:

"One's chance of becoming a victim of either violent or property crime here is one in 18. Within Texas, more than 98% of the communities have a lower crime rate than Houston. In fact, after researching dangerous places to live, NeighborhoodScout found Houston to be one of the top 100 most dangerous cities in the U.S.A."

(Clearly, the writer is referring to innocent victims of violence. I would not have done the search in the first place had I not heard previously that just walking around in Houston in broad daylight is dangerous.)