Why would we exclude it?

Got a source on that?

I am not using stereotypes at all.

All the Big 5 literature indicates women are higher in both neuroticism and agreeable than men, on average, across cultures, with more significant gender differences noted in more egalitarian countries such as the Scandinavian nations.

Now if we did a study where we looked at SAT scores, GPA, imposter syndrome incidence, and Big 5 aspect scale, then maybe we could learn something about gender differences in imposter syndrome specifically.

Whom US is afraid of?! Mexico? Canada?

Ehh idk how to address it because it's so subjective. You say it's obvious, I say more data is required. I'm personally pretty conservative/cautious when it comes to making links to predictive behavior from our cultural understanding of gender. I think it's easy to jump to conclusions based on broad stereotypes that don't hold up to scrutiny, but I don't know that I can really prove you're doing that.

Not exactly, but in the same spirit of r/PeopleLiveInCities

What’s the point

It conveys the thermodynamic minimum possible, not what practical technologies can achieve. Available approaches are still emerging technologies, and may need an order of magnitude or more energy to work. For context, the minimum energy for seawater desalination is ~1 Wh /L.

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>rice farmers

Those "rice farmers" were at that point hard-core veteran light infantry who had been fighting for over 3 decades by the time the Vietnam War kicked off, and were receiving shit-tons of military aid from China

That is probably true!. the marines are a great example. numerous smaller specialized aircraft.

Bang for buck, I don't think anyone else even comes close. You could hand the actual dollar amount we spend to any other country and they couldn't produce a force with a fraction the capability.

That's only going by number of aircraft. Going by value of aircraft, China and Russia are probably 2 and 3.

Yeah, we're in a bad way in the UK...

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If US military spending goes down Europe, Israel, and a handful of others will go up. Better one big bad bully instead of dozens.

those energy values seem low to me. or did i bork my conversion somewhere?

3600Kj/kg would be 1kWh/L --> 180Kj would be 50Wh/L

i would think it would take more than 50w for an hour to get a liter of water

for the army and marines I believe they have aircraft so they dont have to rely on another branch of the military that has different protocals and chain of commands. also Different Missions, Different Aircraft. Different Capabilities

A lot of the defense expenditures have to do with maintaining the military force structure including pay, healthcare both current and post service.

Fair enough, thank you for supplying me with some new info.

Care to address my first paragraph?

Holy shit I wasn’t aware that the army has its own batch of aircraft (I mean that’s what the airforce is for?). For the marines it makes sense I guess that they have their own.

of the top five

1. US airforce
2. US Navy
3. Russian Air Force (not sure how thats going these days)
4. US Army
5. US Marines

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"You think the military protects its citizens?"

That's the gross dollar amount, what's more interesting is when you take into account PPP and what actually goes into a military budget (does coast guard get included? How about special projects like an aircraft carrier?)