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The Putin caucus is a huge liability. And I think we all know who they are. 😑
That's a US aircraft carrier that sails all over the western Pacific, it isn't permanently in Japan. And there's already tons of US missiles in Japan at the US military bases. >

Yeah, I spent 5 years as part of the West Coast Navy. I know the Reagan gets underway. Hence the words "a little". >

I spent a similar amount of time stationed in Japan. My point was it's so mobile that it's not a reliable defense for a Japanese island. You might as well call the article misleading because the US already has Tomahawks in South Korea lol. >

Yes, that too. I'll amend my statement to "a little tiny eansy weenie bit misleading". >

I’m a little surprised that we don’t have those missiles already there, considering how many ballistic missiles North Korea throws into the ocean near Japan. >

Very badly worded title. Or it's intentionally misleading to get clicks. You're either lazy or deceptive. >

To protect Taiwan ? >

Why doesn't Japan have nukes? >

An immediate downvote tends to be Reddit's "vote fuzzing" feature or whatever it's called. I forget what its purpose is. >

I looked this up:

Please note that the vote numbers are not "real" numbers, they have been "fuzzed" to prevent spam bots etc. So taking the above example, if five users upvoted the comment, and three users downvote it, the upvote/downvote numbers may say 23 upvotes and 21 downvotes, or 12 upvotes, and 10 downvotes. The points score is correct, but the vote totals are "fuzzed".

I'm curious how this hurts spam bots... >

One method of dealing with spam accounts is to silently not process their requests, but return responses as if you had.
As the writer of a bot, you want to try and combat this. The most obvious strategy is to have the bot check the score immediately after making a vote, and detect when its votes appear to not be tallied. It would be hard to draw conclusions from a single action, since another account might have voted between your vote and checking the new score, but if the number didn't change in some percent of cases, it's owners could mark the account as likely compromised.
Fuzzing the votes makes using that sort of strategy for detecting compromised bots harder, since the feedback is even fuzzier than it would normally be from natural voting. >

"FILL BALLASTS" >

better get on that >

We are in the early salvos of WWIII. We need to get assets into place ASAP. >

The thing that worries me is that it’s only a little over a year from an election in the US. I don’t know who I would trust to handle these delicate situations, but I know a lot of people I really don’t want to handle them. And I’m extremely concerned that those are the ones who will be elected. Hopefully we can have someone with a cool head, diplomacy, and the ability to do the right thing instead of pandering to the bloodlust of some vocal supporters