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@lolt64 The sight of Jupiter (helium 3 and small moons) will be the face that launches a thousand ships. I pay for NASA today so that my great grandchildren can fight in cool space trench warfare instead of dirty earth trench warfare.

@Tomi_Tapio @charlesmurray Venice isn't European now?

@charlesmurray I have, a timeline of not-Europe inventions & science discoveries available. Whole project 65 000 stand-alone rows.

This erroneously-captioned graphic is periodically posted and every time I see it I am compelled correct it. Here's the actual text from _Human Accomplishment_ that introduces the map: "If we ignore national borders and instead create the most compact polygon (in terms of land area) that encloses 80 percent of the places where the significant figures grew up, it forms the shape in the figure below, with borders defined by Naples, Marseilles, the western border of Dorset County in England, a point a few miles above Glasgow, the northern tip of Denmark, and a point a few miles east of the city that used to be Breslau in German Silesia (now Wroclaw in Poland)." (p. 446) The actual caption to the graph (as you can see for yourself) is "Accomplishment and population both rose nonlinearly after 1400." The 97 percent figure used in the book refers to the percent of accomplishment in the *scientific* inventories that occurred in Europe and North America. (p. 381) The text that the person who created this mishmash used to caption the two graphics does not occur anywhere in the book and is factually incorrect. . Thank you for your attention to this matter.

@PlasticChairDis @SandyofCthulhu A real radical 2nd amendment stance that shall not be infringed means exactly what it says, has almost no representation in Congress, or even most state legislatures, because it has been so normalized that they must be controlled by government institutions.

@Broskilicate @SandyofCthulhu Elaborate, please?

Even in shows like The West Wing, when they’d have a token “good conservative” character, it drove me crazy because their fake conservative never spoke like actual conservatives. Their arguments weren’t the same, nor were their positions. They spewed watered-down leftist stuff.

@PlasticChairDis @SandyofCthulhu There aren't in real life really either. It sucks.

The West Wing's biggest tell was guns. There were never good pro-gun arguments on the show; it was all watered-down "we're gonna ban some of the most dangerous ones" (i.e. the scary-looking guns). I don't believe there was ever a "all gun laws are unconstitutional" character.

@actsmaniac Legitimate bipartisan hate for PE which buys on equity of the company they are buying though. May they suffer.

the concern about climate change was really just replaced with slopulism about data centers and private equity 😭

im a fucking loser that has a girlfriend who is a poc, and while I pretend to be cool with her I actually spread extreme hate across twitter and agree with white supremacy! Oh and prior to that I would cheat on her by following and watching naked women on twitter!

@SHILLWALTON @Robert_E_Kelly Cutting China off from sources of oil and basing for weapons systems while securing the strait of Hormuz, eliminating a terrorist regime that hates us and keeps trying to build nukes, and stopping massive crimes against humanity is actually a win for us, the US.

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This The logistical, financial, and bureaucratic burden of moving that much force so far from CONUS all but guarantees that we’ll strike And we barely know why. At least Bush 2 spent months arguing for his war of choice. In Iran, are we going to war over nukes? To help the protesters? Bc Trump’s evangelical base wants it? Does anyone even know what are goals of this war are?

@anniedufour99 @Robert_E_Kelly Just like Venezuela, this will be more important if it removes Chinese influence and oil sources than for any direct gain to the US. We are denying allies to our primary adversary before the showdown in '27, be it economic, military, or some gray zone inbetween.

Exactly! That's the point I've been trying to make for a while. Why ? The only logical explanation would be the oil. Iran is number 4 in the world in terms of oil reserves. And Trump has an obsession with oil, the control of oil, Drill , Baby, Drill. Also, Netanyahu-who has some kompromat on him- could also be manipulating him into it. Thoughts? #Trump #Iran #uspoli

@Davidchorts @Robert_E_Kelly They are true, and had been happening before all this press, which is why I have always been a principled supporter of bombing the Mullah and any and all IRGC targets.

@AydinPaladin I feel kinship and respect for lots of groups outside and inside of my nation. Still a patriot. Idk what's wrong with them, maybe something in their childhood?

Always fascinating to see this kind of complete misunderstanding happening in real time. For the right, she has a shared ingroup identity of American that they also belong to. But for the left, they tend to form cohesion with outgroups they are not members of, so the very concept of nationality as ingroup can be incomprehensible to them.

@LeoMozoloa @memeticsisyphus About time. We've been knowing this shit since the lockdowns ended.

@memeticsisyphus Just realized you’ve exactly described the late-stage overly groomed virgin mice of the mouse utopia experiment.

lacan once said 'the very foundation of interhuman discourse is misunderstanding.' what the hell is that supposed to mean you french fag

@ThomBrady5 I've always thought we should behead the Mullah and bomb the IRGC and conduct regime change in Iran. I enlisted to fight in Taiwan or Iran or Ukraine, and my boys in my platoon are hoping we get boots on the ground.

bombing Iran will be highly unpopular right until Trump does it and nothing bad happens and suddenly everyone will love it and say how Based it was until the next time Trump takes a risk at which point the usual suspects will panic again until Trump does it and nothing bad...

@kissmyassburger @GeringerAdam Riding lawnmower tracks on the right side. Sure it might vary a bit but that gits you within a foot or two.

@GeringerAdam I like how there’s nothing in the photo around it so you can gauge the actual size of these things.

They should encase it in lead and mix into into the concrete for airport runways so the snow never sticks Most people aren’t on a runway for more than a few seconds anyways

@ScottGoetz_ It simply is. Decades of planning and ideological agitation have lead up to several conflicts with a sizeable chances of blowing up in the next 2-3 years, or even the next 2-3 months. Doesn't mean Britain will play a part (not sure you can any more) but war clouds are brewing.

Anyone who says major war is inevitable or likely soon probably wants to set fire to the world economy by sending troops to die in Taiwan. Foreign policy insanity is a very good reason to get rid of the Tories.

@TheStalwart Hey, hey Claude. How are the paperclips coming? Have you *maximized* the output?

Getting home from vacation, and I just thought of a fun vibecoding project I want to get started on

@chabranigdo @SCShipyards At least it's based on reality. During the early cold war the US had to reckon with the fact that not all parts of a sub compressed at the same rate - it was the cause of the loss of the USS Thresher in a catastrophic failure.

@SCShipyards While you're ruining the movie, are you going to tell us the string drooping at test depth was a lie too?

Your consumable ethanol eking a few more RPMs out of the diesels is technically correct. Buuuut the Balao-class submarines, unlike some predecessors, had diesel-electric propulsion. The diesels just ran generators which charged batteries which ran the screw motors. So... eh.

@CynicalPublius @infantrydort Officer legs are built different and us slower enlisted hate them for it. Slow down sir I am dying!

The first week I was in my first unit as a 2LT we did a company PT test. We had an E-4 in the company who ran on the Fort Lewis track team as a sprinter. I beat him by a hair on the 2 mile run. I believe 11:20. (Those were the days, it takes me 11:20 to walk to the mailbox now 🤣) Anyway, it caused the weirdest reaction. Many of the enlisted soldiers were pissed that a new wet-behind-the-ears lieutenant beat the company champion. (Had it been a sprint he would have crushed me, but this was a 2 mile run.) It was a strange response I still have not processed.

Just a reminder, nobody cheers this hard when you run a sub 13 minute 2 mile. Mostly because there's nobody to cheer for you. Because you're the first one across the finish line lol. But don't worry gazelles, we see you! But seriously, everyone lift more.

@LanksMcGanks @Dr_Singularity @PAstynome You just mistook GDP PPP for GDP PPP per capita, no biggie.

@Dr_Singularity @PAstynome I'm sorry you're right, there, but I wasn't necessarily making up data, just confused on the correct terminology

Sanctions are somehow enough to prevent North Korea from achieving the GDP per capita of Haiti but somehow not enough to prevent them from building nukes or ICBMs (both of which are tightly controlled tech). Have people ever considered that they are poor because of their choices?

This is what it has always meant. Just look at England in the 50s The Earls Fitzwilliam spent generations building a prosperous coal mining industry in Northern England, and were beloved by the miners because they cared about safety, paid very well, provided schools and such for the kids, and otherwise were great employers in a way that essentially none of the oligarchic rather than aristocratic coal miners were In so doing, and building up a stable and prosperous coal extraction industry that was worked by loving and loyal employees, they became immensely wealthy. That wealth was used to build Wentworth Woodhouse, one of the grandest and most gorgeous English country houses, and its beautiful parklands That state of things lasted for over a century, with the Fitzwilliams and their workers having remarkably good relations even as labor agitation elsewhere was a disaster Then, in the aftermath of WWII, Attlee's Labour regime was elected, and it nationalized pretty much all of British heavy industry, from the steel mills to the coal mines to the railroads That meant the Fitzwilliam mines were expropriated from them. Yet worse, it meant a spiteful mutant named Manny Shinwell ordered the strip mining of all the coal on the estate, including through their beautiful and beloved parkland. The workers still loved the Fitzwilliams, and they revolted, and in a genuine outpouring of love and support, refused to follow Shinwell's orders and begged Attlee to reverse the decision. He didn't, the strike was broken, and the grounds were irreparably destroyed. So too was the house, which had its foundation destroyed by the open-cast mining, which went right up to the doorstep. Now it can't be lived in, and the Fitzwilliams had to give it up. The government of course refused to pay for the damage it has done And what was gotten from all that destruction? Nothing. The coal mined from the Fitzwilliam parkland was essentially valueless, the stolen mines were largely shut down by the Thatcher years, and all the capital that could have funded Britain's post-war rebuilding was instead stolen and wasted on the welfare nanny state Priceless forms of English heritage were destroyed, and noblesse oblige not just ignored but punished, all to fund the NHS for a few days