What the hell just happened? You admitted you had incorrect information and accepted the correction in a mature and civil manner?

Nah, you’re supposed to dig in and argue for hours. Maybe go through my post history to inspire some ad hominem attacks. Throw in some slurs if you’re feeling feisty.

I guess I’ll just go back to work if you’re going to help foster an environment of constructive dialogue like that.

That is how it works, I was in the U.S. military.

The choice your brothers were given at the end of their four years was whether or not to sign up for another four years of active duty. Their initial contract was almost certainly actually for eight years, including four years active duty and four years IRR.

People don’t talk about the IRR because there are nearly zero requirements during that time, it’s not the same as the active reserves. No reporting in, no fitness, medical, or training standards, etc. It just means you’re among the first on the hook if ol’ uncle sam “needs” more people ASAP, and they can legally recall you to active duty without instituting a draft.

There are exceptions for some job roles and other circumstances, but that’s how the standard enlistment works.

They can still fuck with a lot of people without a draft though.

Most U.S. enlistment contracts have a period of four years in the inactive ready reserves (IRR) after the normal four years of active duty. Not to mention the active reserves and national guard.

That’s a lot of people leading otherwise normal, mostly civilian lives, that could get called up. Granted, that’s not the same as a straight up draft - all of those people choose to sign up in some capacity.

But we have a lot of bodies on tap to churn through the human meat grinder before a draft.

Isn’t that exciting and reassuring?

You should consider reading the article before “just sayin.”

Eww, no. Gross.

My gyno jerks off my cows like a civilized person.

How often do you see or hear “male” used without any of the descriptors attached in casual contexts?

Describing guys with bullshit Greek-derived “personality type” adjectives still at least acknowledges they are human with some kind of personality, even if you’re using one of the negative ones. And a few of them are even considered positive descriptors.

But the common use of the word “female” in informal contexts, without any other descriptors attached, does exactly what the article author says it does and isn’t nearly as pervasive for men or boys.

I don’t think most of them will.

1. They will use enterprise editions internally, where their IT team will have much more control over behaviors they don’t like at the group policy level than home users do.

2. The executives at the big software conglomerates have the same AI boners that Microsoft does. They’ll be looking for ways to integrate new Windows features and use them as selling points for their own products.

3. They don’t care about the privacy nightmare Windows has become because they implement and benefit from the same telemetry and data collection practices with their customers.