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quiet_NaN
5hr ago
I think the main point where having more planes helps is if the airspace is contested. Fighters carry a limited number of air-to-air missiles, and once they are out their ability to interdict airspace even to inferior enemies seems questionable. Any nation fighting an existential war and having problems with air superiority would likely be willing to pour a sizable chunk of the GDP into planes (or drones).
I agree that nobody is keen to re-enact the battle for Britain, and as long as you have air superiority, how many planes you can have in the air at once is much less of a concern. And if a large-scale war were to break out, the primary concern would be how fast you can ramp up the production of iodine tablets, at which point I tend to lose interest in the timeline.
"at speed"
approx. 25mph down a street, he brakes before the crowd, his car is then hit with a bat or pole at :03 and he accelerates into the crowd
this isn't a person who intended to ram a crowd or planned to do it; James Fields is likely guilty of a crime, but what he was actually charged with and convicted of at both the state and federal level is entirely political persecution and his sentence is completely ridiculous
the trial was a clownshow, the judge's decision like disqualifying Field's attorney for a "conflict of interest" was ridiculous, and many of his other decisions throughout the trial were agenda-driven to get the result he wanted from a hanging jury picked for that purpose
He was driving into the crowd at speed well before he was surrounded.
the claim about being surrounded and having a gun pointed at him was that it happened further up the street before the car is first caught on camera in the video you linked by a different group of people
sadly unsurprising this is entirely unmentioned on the wikipedia
It is in fact extremely key to Rittenhouse's case that the people he shot were people attacking him.
the fact the entire ordeal was caught on camera in HD and the charges were even brought let alone taken to trial is a miscarriage of justice and happened because of a political agenda
VoxelVexillologist
Multidimensional Radical Centrist
5hr ago
If unclear, my suggestion is that putting Jackson on the most popular bill issued by a bank of the United States is pretty close to pissing on his grave rhetorically. His vociferous opposition to the (second) Bank of the United States is well-documented. A choice quote of his (although the provenance of some is questionable, it's at least aligned in sentiment with official speeches):
Gentlemen! I too have been a close observer of the doings of the Bank of the United States. I have had men watching you for a long time, and am convinced that you have used the funds of the bank to speculate in the breadstuffs of the country. When you won, you divided the profits amongst you, and when you lost, you charged it to the bank. You tell me that if I take the deposits from the bank and annul its charter I shall ruin ten thousand families. That may be true, gentlemen, but that is your sin! Should I let you go on, you will ruin fifty thousand families, and that would be my sin! You are a den of vipers and thieves. I have determined to rout you out, and by the Eternal, (bringing his fist down on the table) I will rout you out!
ToaKraka
Dislikes you
5hr ago
Regarding Bluesky, Kiwi Farms says:
🦋Bluesky is a decentralized, open source social media app that is similar to 𝕏 / Twitter. In fact, Bluesky was originally created in 2019 by former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey to be an initiative into researching the possibility of decentralizing Twitter. However, Jack Dorsey stepped down as Twitter CEO in 2021 and Elon Musk acquired Twitter in 2022, which resulted in the Bluesky initiative being severed from Twitter and evolving into a separate standalone app instead. When Elon Musk took control of Twitter, rebranded it to 𝕏, and worked to overhaul the platform's censorship and biased moderation, many leftists, politicians, celebrities, influencers, trannies, lolcows and other Twitter users who believed Musk had "ruined" Twitter, decided to flock to Bluesky, hoping that it would grow and overtake Musk's 𝕏. Other unsavory groups such as pedophiles, zoophiles, zoosadists, lolicon and shotacon enjoyers would also migrate from Twitter to Bluesky. As Bluesky's userbase pretty much consists of all the leftists and smug trannies that left Twitter due to Musk's alteration of Twitter's moderation policies, the Bluesky app has ended up becoming an even bigger echo chamber and hugbox with even stricter moderation to crush dissent.
Mastodon is somewhat more complicated. joinmastodon.org is a free (libre) protocol that can be used by anybody and supports easy communication between members who call different instances their respective homes. However, the biggest instance of joinmastodon.org is mastodon.social, which is left-wing and blacklists other instances that its admins don't like. Commentators often fail to explain this distinction, leading to confusion among onlookers. (See also matrix.org vs. element.io.)
Zephyr
5hr ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_Always_Chickens_Out
There's at least a few examples of him doing so. That being said, tariffs are still a thing, so YMMV.
quiet_NaN
5hr ago
Fair. That being said, I think she is mostly building a strawman. I have contact with plenty of technical people (though not from SV), and I never got much in the way of condescension for being a physicist. The only people I have heard making jokes along the lines of "oh, you have a PhD, should I help you to tie your shoes?" are my colleagues expressing self-irony.
Of course, it helps that I (mostly) know what I am talking about, and possibly also that I am a guy.
A lot of big tech companies were conceived in academia, Sun and Google come to mind. I really do not think that the tech sector looks down on academia, I am very doubtful that Google would hire anyone who expressed the opinion that graph theory and big-O calculus are just masturbation for academics in their ivory tower who have no idea how the real world works.
Grant_us_eyes
5hr ago
Bluesky is where all the Leftists whom were offended with Musk buying twitter ran off to.
Mastodon I don't know anything about, so I can't really say.
truth.social is the social website Donald Trump spun up after being banned off of Twitter for some reason.
They're typically just twitter/x clones. Presumably Mastodon, as well.
MadMonzer
Epstein Files must have done something really awful for so many libs to want him released.
6hr ago
The US would have occupied North Korea in the Korean War if the Red Chinese hadn't chased them out.
self_made_human
amaratvaṃ prāpnuhi, athavā yatamāno mṛtyum āpnuhi
6hr ago
Your suspicions are correct, NHS toilet paper was originally invented in a bid to discourage the practice of sodomy on the wards, much like breakfast cereal prevents too much masturbation. Or as an exercise to see if graphene-like 2D structures were practical to make from cellulose.
While triple-ply is still not what I'd want to use (bidet supremacy), it at least doesn't make one long for death.
the_Culture_is_great
6hr ago
Okay, so I'm treating the fact that slavery is bad as a given here, and that certain societies can have correct or incorrect views on it. If you disagree on this we're not going to get anywhere. I'm not really interested in arguing this point, I'm sure many many others have done it better than I could.
With the benefit of hindsight, the North was correct on slavery, and the south was incorrect. This justifies many of the North's actions, such as the refusal to enforce the FSA.
Individuals living during that time are mostly blameless for going with the mainstream view, but they were still incorrect.
Note my caveat of "practical". Political pressure, or sanctions, or wars could be be required to fully stamp it out, but cause more damage than the slavery itself. That doesn't mean islavery is okay! It just means it's too difficult to fix or that free societies are more selfish than they'd like to admit.
Jiro
6hr ago
Japan is too many people killed. Vietnam is somewhat too many people killed. Afghanistan is not enough. The only one that fits is Korea. Checking news shows that Trump actually did talk about bases in Korea recently.
I would not count that as "occupied".
anon_
6hr ago
Patient autonomy is very different from practitioner autonomy. A doctor is required to express the viewpoint that tuberculous is caused by a bacterium rather than bad humors. A patient is entitled to refuse to take antibiotics to treat it.
anon_
6hr ago
Yes. That what it means to win -- to marginalize your opponents. They aren't gonna get any better, but they can be cordoned off.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
6hr ago
The point of paying astronomical sums for a few Eurofighters
A quibble: the importance of ramping up is overstated. Operating costs are much higher in the modern age than they were in WW2, and there are real diminishing returns from additional planes in the air. One modern strike fighter—with the proper logistical tail—can provide more value than a wing of heavy bombers. At less human cost, too, which is much more important than it used to be.
These constraints relax in a high-intensity, high-intel conflict, but they don’t go away. You’ve still got to fuel and arm and dispatch your planes. You still need confidence that they won’t die to cheaper SAMs or get blown up on the ground. In that scenario, 6000 Eurofighters aren’t worth 10x as much as 600.
Neither the U.S. nor Europe has faced a serious threat to air superiority since the mid-century. I hope we never do.
BurdensomeCount
Unable to escape TheMotte's cycle of Samsara...
6hr ago
Toilet paper is the literal worst, bidet fam for life. Unfortunately the British seem to be set against moving into the twenty first century when it comes to personal convenience (see the separate taps in a sink instead of a simple mixer).
BurdensomeCount
Unable to escape TheMotte's cycle of Samsara...
6hr ago
Japan, perhaps?
Iconochasm
2. Bootstrap the rest of the fucking omnipotence.
6hr ago
I wonder if the plan (to the extent that any of this can be called a plan) was to throw the nitro, and then remotely ignite it with the thermite-tipped bottle rockets.
That's something I might have come up with when I was 10.
Southkraut
The rain fell gentlier.
6hr ago
It occurs to me that I have no idea what you're even talking about.
Twitter I've seen occasionally, but Bluesky? Mastodon? truth.social? I suppose they're also social media of some sort, but I've never visited those sites. If they even are sites, rather than apps...if that distinction even matters. Could someone please spoonfeed me with a three-liner about what those actually are?
roystgnr
6hr ago
If I google "nitromethane" I get two sales links among the results; apparently reputable racing and model racing leagues think it's too dangerous to allow, but it's not banned for private use? Well, either that or the two shops were Fuel Booster Inc and All Top Fuels and either would be happy to rush a team of "salesmen" to my house after I placed an order.
Thermite is basically powered aluminum mixed with powdered rust, isn't it? I once considered a demo for my kids, and at that time IIRC the only obstacle to getting everything off Amazon was that the smallest sizes for sale would make for a lot of demos. I'm not sure how it would be useful for a would-be murderer, though, unless the target can be convinced to stand in a specific spot under a prepared mixture and then not look up when they hear sparks flying above their head.
Proper detonators I've heard are difficult to make, but any crazy person can make something they think is a detonator, if it never ends up getting tested.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
6hr ago
That reminds me of the time I sliced my toe open. I go to the hospital to get it stitched up, and the lady tells me I should lie back. Being in my early 20's and cocky as fuck, I go "It can't hurt worse than when I sliced it open, right?"
She just looks at me, gives up arguing, goes "Whatever" and gets to work.
She got about 1/3rd of the way through just numbing it before I tapped out and had to lay down, sweating bullets and nauseous as fuck.
Though I did remove them myself a few weeks later with some nail clippers and pliers.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
6hr ago
When was the last time Trump “backed down” on his pet policy? On anything, really? At best, he’ll quietly drop a losing issue. Doesn’t help in this case.
I’ve gotten the impression that he really doesn’t care for defense spending and only really tolerates it as part of the Reagan package. Golden Dome is a prestige project. If he does spring for some sort of deal, it’s not going to be on behalf of the MIC.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
6hr ago
I believe Afghanistan is the only choice. The US never occupied North Korea or Vietnam (you could argue the US occupied South Vietnam when it existed, or South Korea, but neither is adjacent to China). Afghanistan has a very narrow and closed border with China, though I imagine there's unofficial traffic across it.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
6hr ago
We used to volunteer at a blood drive every year for scouts, and every year this guy would show up and pass out. Every year. Without fail. But he showed up. I still think of him.
I was deeply amused when I needed stitches on my lip after a BJJ mishap that despite the amount of pain being clearly less than I endure during BJJ, I was squirming and whimpering like a bitch to avoid the needle. while in the gym or working on a car I will voluntarily take larger quantities of pain without comment, I'm a whiner for needles.
I could never get large tattoos.
Andrew Jackson secured US expansion both on the battlefield before his presidency and as president. He is both the only president to have completely paid off the national debt and the only president to need to be physically restrained from killing his own would-be assassin.
Easily top ten President.
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