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Ripley is competent, exercises good judgement (she didn't open the door), challenges authority when appropriate, spars with the crew's insults, points out things being overlooked. Similar in the 2nd, she gives input to the military, proves herself valuable. Plus kicks alien ass. Rewatch the first couple movies.

Brad is absolutely correct that if written today they'd be written badly, because neither Sarah Connor Ellen Ripley are "strong female characters". Ripley is largely a failure. She's disrespected and a walkover in the first film, and survives in the second largely because, as a civilian, she's not put in the same dangers as the soldiers. She has grit and determination, and that's what draws us to her. She survives not through strength but tenacity. Sarah Connor is again, someone thrown into a situation entirely above her head and survives only through the sacrifice of others. At the end of the film she rises to the challenge, but the scars and her struggle to be that "strong female character" eventually breaks her the that her original struggle to survive could not. Again, we love her because she is good and kind and vulnerable and worth protecting, and when she breaks, we still feel protective because we understand why, and we still remember the kind, good person she was and how that was perverted by events outside her control. Ellen Ripley and Sarah Connor are standing repudiations of the "strong female character" trope in fiction. They're both victims...their appeal is their vulnerability, not their strength.

Everybody is already blaming the USA for the Strait of Hormuz being closed. Therefore, I propose that we mine the strait just for fun. It wouldn’t change anyone’s opinion of us, we don’t need the oil, Iran would immediately beg to open the strait, and it would be very funny.

@adle67616 @ManaByte We've been to the moon, the UK has not. Deal with it.

@ManaByte How did you get through the van Allen belts the cock head?

Earth isn’t flat, the Moon landing wasn’t faked, and space isn’t some CGI dome. These claims fall apart the moment you look at the technology we use every day. None of it works unless Earth is a sphere in a real cosmos. Start with GPS. Your phone calculates your position by comparing timing signals from satellites orbiting Earth. Those satellites move at precise speeds and altitudes that only make sense in a real vacuum. If Earth were flat or if space were fake, GPS would fail instantly. No navigation, no rideshare apps, no airline routing, no global timing systems. The entire system depends on orbital mechanics that match what physics predicts for a spherical planet. Satellite internet, satellite TV, and weather forecasting all rely on the same reality. We watch storms form from orbit. We track hurricanes across oceans using data from satellites operated by different countries and private companies. These systems agree with each other because they are observing the same real planet from space. If space were fake, every meteorologist, every aerospace engineer, every telecom company, every airline, and every military on Earth would have to coordinate a perfect lie for decades. That is not possible. Now to the claim that NASA fakes photos of Earth. This is one of the easiest conspiracy theories to debunk because NASA is not the only source of Earth images. Not even close. Dozens of countries and private companies have their own satellites that photograph Earth constantly. Weather satellites from Europe, Japan, India, and South Korea all produce their own full‑disk images. Private companies like Maxar and Planet Labs take high resolution photos of Earth every day for commercial clients. Amateur radio operators receive live images directly from NOAA satellites using equipment you can buy online. None of these systems rely on NASA. None of them match a single centralized source. Yet they all show the same spherical Earth from different angles at different times. If NASA were faking Earth photos, every other space agency and every private satellite operator would have to fake them too. They would also have to coordinate the lighting, cloud patterns, storm movements, and surface features in perfect sync. That is not happening. The simplest explanation is the correct one. Multiple independent systems are photographing the same real planet. The Moon landing is even harder to deny once you look at the tech. We still interact with the equipment the astronauts left behind. Observatories fire lasers at the retroreflectors sitting on the lunar surface and receive the return signal at the exact predicted intervals. This is not a theory. It is a measurement that universities and independent facilities repeat all the time. You cannot fake a laser return from nearly 240,000 miles away. Even the internet used to spread these conspiracies relies on space infrastructure. Undersea cables carry most traffic, but satellites handle the rest. The timing, routing, and handoff between systems only work because the satellites are actually in orbit. If space did not exist, the global communications network would collapse. The irony is simple. The technology that flat Earth believers and Moon landing deniers use to post their claims is the same technology that proves them wrong. The evidence is not hidden. It is built into the functioning of the modern world. You can reject the conclusions, but you cannot reject the infrastructure that makes your phone, your internet, your weather alerts, your maps, your flights, and your entire digital life possible. These conspiracies do not just fail scientifically. They fail technologically, mathematically, and logistically. They only survive when people stop paying attention to the systems they rely on every day.

It's similar to sunburn: go to the beach, lay out in the sun for an hour or so, get a tan go to the beach, lay out all day, turn red, your dead skin will peel off It's the dosage; don't stay in the belts too long. Or in an active nuclear reactor. Or in the sun (a very large fusion reactor)

@ManaByte So why did a nasa offical state a few days ago you still don't know how to get through them? How did buzz and the rest not die of radiation? And why do they all look like they've eaten a lemon after one of the greatest achievements in human history? Press conference?

A lot of conspiracy accounts love pretending the Van Allen belts are some unbeatable force field. They never mention the part that matters: the belts aren’t uniform. They have weak regions, gaps, and low‑density zones. NASA literally plots the flight path to skim the thinnest section so the spacecraft spends only minutes in the mildest radiation. That’s it. No magic. No cover‑up. Just physics and trajectory design. The dose astronauts get is lower than a CT scan. The only thing “deadly” here is how confidently bad info spreads online.

@SKINNYTALLS @ThomasKundera1 @TojibaFan9000 @BoogRetard @memeticsisyphus Just test it with less power. That simulates strong signal at long distance. It's physics. You know, math & stuff.

@ThomasKundera1 @TojibaFan9000 @BoogRetard @memeticsisyphus Well how would you test it on the earth if its widest point is only less than 25,000 km?

If you show them pictures they’ll say they’ve been doctored, if you show them video they’ll call it AI, if you show them expert testimony they’ll cry conspiracy, if you show them math they won’t understand it. They’re not skeptics, they’re believers in a falsehood that can’t be dislodged.

Did you never play with a walkie-talkie as a kid? It's like that, but with bigger antennas. And you hold your phone up to the walkie. I mean, you can toggle back & forth between receive/transmit on 1 frequency, but they probably used split upstream/downstream frequencies to permit full-duplex (both sides can talk at once). It's just radio, with noticeable delays due to distance. Old B&W movies show car-phones, ship-to-shore phone links, and hams have done phone links way back. Anyone who's worked with electronic /signals/radio can tell you it's plausible & how it's done.

@memeticsisyphus Now explain the phone call to the moon.

It's a documented technology, which was produced by multiple companies. Can be reproduced if desired or needed and with enough money to engineer & small-lot produce new ones. We stopped because there was no demand; it's not like a mysterious wizard was the only one who knew the secret & he died. We can still produce vacuum-tubes if needed; we may have lost some of the details of high-end complex tubes, but we can produce basic ones with simple equipment & can get tricker with some engineering & trial & error research.

@DrunkIrish_62 @haprho We don’t know how everything was built, because once again with the VCR example; 1. It’s obsolete technology, 2. Nobody makes them anymore, and 3. You definitely will not be able to tell me how to make one.

Aww, poor flerfs — flerfs say we lost the technology to go the moon. We've also lost the technology to: 🔹️Build cathode-ray tube (CRT) televisions and computer monitors. 🔹️VHS VCRs 🔹️Kodachrome slide film 🔹️Floppy disks 🔹️cassette tapes 🔹️high volumn vacuum tubes (also called electron tubes or radio tubes) 🔹️high volume incandescent light bulbs

The fragments remained in his body. It's not difficult to work this out. Some bullets are made to stay solid, for penetration. Some bullets are made to fragment, to destroy tissue & dump energy quickly, and don't penetrate as well. Some are meant to expand yet stay together, but may fragment if say they hit bone.

@michelle_ogno First thing I thought of but still they say there was no exit wound, so where did it go?

If Charlie had no exit wound and the bullet fragmented where did the remaining fragments go? They couldn't have just disappeared....

@jimmy_tho @johnkonrad Shouldn't you guys be angry at Iran for threatening 20% of your oil supply? Especially since you just found out they have missiles that can reach Europe? It's not like Iran's been quiet & peaceful & we randomly attacked them.

@johnkonrad See when you start start a war without telling your "allies" and put 20% of the worlds oil supply in danger, countries tend to be pissed off for crashing their economies. That's what Trump did with this stunt. He's affected the economy of every country on earth.

Trump said we need Greenland because we can’t trust NATO to let us use it in a war. He said we need a battleship 100x more powerful to keep straits open. Europe laughed. Trump was right.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

@SavvyThaGreat @HotepDoobs Learn such valuable Communist lessons as "kill all the college folks" & "how NOT to farm or feed your people"

@HotepDoobs Well Mao pulled his whole nation out of dirt poverty in a human lifetime so idk maybe you could learn something.

Imagine listening to Mao Zedong or Lenin over Booker T. Washington or Frederick Douglass, and calling yourself “Pro-Black”. Y’all first mistake was trusting this fuck ass haircut.

@mikepratt @AAGDhillon He hasn't threatened them like the Dems did, has he? It was Schumer or Schiff who tried to influence the justices by threatening them.

@AAGDhillon You are an embarrassment. Grow up. You know he trod to influence the SC. You seem to have no problems when he calls the losers. You’re as bad as he is.

There’s literally a chair set up at SCOTUS for our presidents to sit in for oral argument. Your separation of powers nonsense is more imitation pearl-clutching hauteur.

@The_Kyle_Mann It would set the tone when world leaders visited, that's for sure! Perfect backdrop for Trump to rip off a few mags Saddam-style from an M4 at the opening ceremony & every July 4th.

🚨 BREAKING: The New York Times has released this terrifying render of Trump's ballroom. Should Trump be allowed to do this to our democracy?

We do take the possibility of the use of nuclear weapons very seriously. That's why we're destroying Iran's nuclear facilities & missile facilities. The UN preparing what-if scenarios just means they're being prepared. If the USA was planning to nuke Iran, we probably would have done it up-front; it's less justifiable now.

I don't think people understand the gravity of the situation as the UN is preparing for possible nuclear weapon use in Iran. This is a picture of Tehran. For you uneducated, untraveled, never-served, warhawks licking your chops at the thought of bombing it. It's not some low population desert. There are families, children, family pets. Regular working class people with dreams. You're sick to want war. Tehran is a city of nearly 10,000,000 people. Imagine nuking Washington, Berlin, Paris, London, or beyond, bombed with nuclear weapons. I gave up my diplomatic career to leak this information. I suspended my duties so as not to be part of or a witness to this crime against humanity, in an attempt to prevent a nuclear winter before it is too late. Yesterday, nearly ten million people protested “No Kings” in the United States. The possibility of the use of nuclear weapons must be taken very seriously. It's dangerous. Act now. Spread this message worldwide. Take the streets. Protest for our humanity and future. Only the people can stop it. History will remember us.

@wadenstrom @RyanSaavedra It was brought up when this first started. The mention of Iran's negotiators stressing they had a ton of 60% material & refused to stop enriching was mentioned. The combination of building nukes & intermediate-range missiles that can hit Europe was brought up.

@RyanSaavedra This message – that the war was necessary to stop Iran from developing nuclear weapons – should have been delivered clearly and jointly a month ago by President Trump, Secretary of State Rubio, and Secretary of War Hegseth. A unified front from day one would have helped.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio gives an excellent explanation on why the U.S. needed to strike Iran It's less than 2 minutes and is worth the watch

@BladeoftheS Governor Hochul seems to have a different take on that idea & how it plays out.

"If you tax the rich they will leave." "Fine we will just repossess all their stuff when they do."

That preamble is about how it's helpful to have a broad pool of men with their own arms in case you need to form an impromptu militia. Think a sheriff forming a posse; you can't immediately ride out after the bad guy or defend the town if you need to spend weeks buying guns & ammo & training everybody how they work.

The 2nd Amendment clearly states: Shall not be infringed. Every single gun law in the US is unconstitutional.

Frangible .30-06 is not common, but if you want any for some reason, Google finds several vendors with it in-stock. Also hand-loadable. There's odd combos out there; heck, I've got polymer-tip hunting ammo in 7.62x54R for my Mosins & .45 tracers for my 1911. Probably won't find it at Academy, but here you go, in-stock: 20 for $30: cdvs.us/product/30-06-… Pricey here: rtparmor.com/products/a_811…

The bullet jacket fragment was too fragmented to compare to Robinson's rifle. ATF result: inconclusive. The defense calls it "material exculpatory evidence." No exit wound from a .30-06 at 142 yards. The surgeon reportedly described the round as frangible — specialty ammunition that barely exists on the civilian market. Bomb dogs cleared the woods. FBI sent three rookie cops with under 18 months combined experience to "recheck" — they found the rifle. 12 Israeli-registered phones were active at UVU when Kirk was shot. Joe Kent found a foreign nexus. The FBI shut him down. Kirk asked Netanyahu about the October 7 stand-down order. He refused AIPAC money. Shillman pulled TPUSA funding four days before Kirk died. Erika inherited the organization. The audit Kirk ordered was never published. Use your brains.

Are we still supposed to believe the official assignation narrative because Erika is just a grieving widow or are we allowed to use our brains now?

They had a large starting donation from an adult-actress who appeared in a Star Trek TND adult-parody. She got them started. I own the DVD; it has an option to watch the episode "clean", and it's a reasonable low-budget attempt at a TNG episode. Also documents how they found a British guy as Picard look-alike, brought him over for thew production. He didn't want to do explicit scenes, so they used a stand-in.

@hollywoodscifi Why is sex work important to a sci-fi museum? Are you expecting everyone to clap?

We lost some followers who said they weren't going to follow us because we will not shame nor ostracize some of our donors and supporters, because they do sex work. But in one day, we gained over 3,000 new followers. So I guess we're doing something right!

@shivohamnarayan @WhiteHouse To militarily protect an international waterway, so their oil can pass through.

@WhiteHouse Trump literally just told the UK to “go TAKE” oil from the Strait of Hormuz themselfs. Not a joke. Not satire. The President of the United States just told allied nations to militarily seize a waterway. let that sink in for a second 🧵👇

“All of those countries that can’t get jet fuel because of the Strait of Hormuz, like the United Kingdom, which refused to get involved in the decapitation of Iran, I have a suggestion for you…” - President Donald J. Trump

@Arkasiraee @WhiteHouse We are not very affected by the closing. Europe & Asia are heavily affected. Trump is pointing that out. We don't need their help; they could use ours, and should step up themselves to defend their interests.

Day 32 of the war, we have an update. My war, your Hormuz problem:- 1. We need NATO help. 2. Not surprised NATO not helping. 3. We no longer need NATO help! 4. Actually we never needed NATO help. 5. We need Japan, Aus, Korea help. 6. They’re not helping either. 7. We are the most powerful country. 8. WE DON’T NEED ANYONE’S HELP! 9. NATO is a Paper Tiger without USA 10. The USA needs nothing from NATO, We will never forget. 11. Build up some delayed courage and go to The Straight of Hormuz.