One thing that NATO has that Russia and Ukraine both don't is a really good air force. If the US Air Force had been fighting in Ukraine, it would have quickly established air superiority over Russian forces and be able to bomb them at will, making it impossible to hold territory any more than Saddam Hussein's army could. (Of course, Putin could have retaliated with nuclear weapons...)
I do not know how good China's air force is.
Nuclear weapons still beat drones.
The ancient Greeks were queer as fuck...
Also, in terms of genetics of LGBT+, I suspect that, during most of human history, social and economic pressure to have children would have ensured that plenty of people that weren't especially enthusiastic about fucking their spouse reproduced anyway.
Marilyn Monroe's extraordinary attractiveness and magnetism was a skill that she could turn on and off.
There's a story that a journalist told about Marilyn Monroe:
Marilyn had never been in a subway. Wrapped in the camel’s hair coat, her famous hair subdued, she walked to the Grand Central stop of the IRT and down to the platform. Nobody recognized her. Eddie’s camera kept clicking while she stood straphanging on the uptown local. No heads turned.
Back up on the street, Marilyn looked around with a teasing smile. “Do you want to see her?” she asked, then took off the coat, fluffed up her hair, and arched her back in a pose. In an instant, she was engulfed, and it took several shoving, scary minutes to rewrap her and push clear of the growing crowd.
Apparently many other people have told similar stories.
How is it getting easier to be loved by others if you're female attracted?
This might be TMI, but is it weird that, in fantasies and when reading/watching erotic material, I can identify with the female characters and performers as easily as the male ones? M/M scenes in written or video porn don't do much for me, but imagining being a woman that's having sex with a man seems to satisfy the "I'm turned on by female sexuality" switch in my brain just as effectively as imagining being my male self having sex with a woman. So if I fell into the same magic spring that Ranma did, I wouldn't be too surprised if I found myself becoming attracted to men during only those times that I had a female body.
I don't know who ceciocat is, so what makes it so weird that the video was by them in particular?
I don't know if anyone transitions for this reason, but people are sometimes more willing to foregive certain "flaws" in one gender than another. For example, it seems to me that a lack of career ambition is more socially acceptable in a woman than in a man - a man who wants to be a househusband rather than a breadwinner has to confront negative stereotypes that a woman that wants to be a housewife does not. And men are often able to be more direct and aggressive without suffering social repercussions.
As for myself, I think that, holding as much else constant as possible, I might have been a little bit happier having been born female, but I think not being short might have helped even more - in addition to having been a short kid, my adult height ended up being about six inches below the median, which is also the kind of thing that's worse if you're male...
Economist Noah Smith has made a similar argument, that comparative advantage will still preserve human jobs, with the caveat that it only holds if the AIs aren't competing with humans for the same scarce resources. He does admit that if, say, humans have to outbid AIs for things like electricity to run farm equipment and for land to grow crops on, we might very well end up with a problem.
Economist Noah Smith has made a similar argument, that comparative advantage will still preserve human jobs, with the caveat that it only holds if the AIs aren't competing with humans for the same scarce resources. He does admit that if, say, humans have to outbid AIs for things like electricity to run farm equipment and for land to grow crops on, we might very well end up with a problem.
Shoot them with a bullet. The anti-aircraft guns of WWI and WW2 would be very effective at cutting swaths through drone swarms.