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  • The ‘Trump-class’ battleship faces a large obstacle in its way: Reality

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  • Even better still, the IJN had plans drawn up for a Super-Yamato class, but the war ended before it could be built.

    It's ironic that the Japanese had successfully proved the effectiveness of aircraft carriers in the opening of the war with the surprise bombing of Pearl Harbor, but failed to carry that through to the end and instead hid behind the old way of having the thickest armor and largest guns.

  • The ‘Trump-class’ battleship faces a large obstacle in its way: Reality

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  • The very first thought that popped into my head when I heard about this was that Trump is so stupid he doesn't even realize that we haven't actively used battleships in our naval doctrine since the end of World War 2. Aircraft carriers will always be more versatile, have longer range, and cast a larger sphere of influence than a battleship of any size ever will.

    So this is little more than a glorified pet project to stroke Trump's fragile ego, set to the tune of multiple billions of dollars in R&D and private contracts to his wealthy friends, for a project that will unlikely be done before he leaves office or leaves this mortal coil, whichever comes first.

    I expect that if we end this madness and get a Democrat in office, if they have any good sense at all, they'll cancel the project. However, the damage will be done between now and the next three years. Taxpayer money will be shoveled into this pit and evaporate into the ether.

  • Combine a X-mas trope with TTRPG

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  • Miracle on 34th St. is about a max level Bard impersonating the local patron saint so well that he successfully bluffs the local magistrate into declaring that he is the actual reincarnation of the saint.

  • Sweet ancestry

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  • We all came from the same slimy creature that slithered out of the primordial soup and never looked back.

  • Actual text of Samantha Fulnecky's assignment, paper, and professors' comments

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  • Oh, I completely forgot about that. You're right, that 10 point deduction would have caused the grade to fall to exactly 0.

    I was trying to be magnanimous, but ultimately I think both professors have the right of it. This student never intended to participate in the class in good faith - the barbed submission was intentionally baiting out a failing grade and negative response from the professor so that it could be used as fuel for the political culture war.

  • Actual text of Samantha Fulnecky's assignment, paper, and professors' comments

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  • An attempt was made. It's clear that at least the student read the article from the assignment, and turned something in. The fact that it doesn't answer the question and is generally substanceless from an academic standpoint is where the points should be deducted from.

    A zero is probably too harsh. I would grade it as a fail, but give the student extra time to submit a revised version. Using the professor's grading scale, that would be a 5 for #1 (she did read the article and her reaction to it had some tie-in to the subject material, it was just insufficient), a 0 for #2 (She avoided summarizing, but failed to provide a "thoughful reaction or response", as most of her writing was merely dismissive and not constructive) and a 5 for #3 (It was clearly written, I'll give her that much). So 10 points out of 25 total, or 40%, which is a fail.

    I think this student would be happier in seminary school, not university.

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  • I'll tune in to that one live.

  • So apparently full stops in texts are 'passive agressive' now. What other unwritten rules for texting have changed over the last couple of decades?

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  • The end of a text is already final enough, so a period doesn’t add any functionality that way unless you somehow believe someone got raptured mid sentence and still hit send.

    Sure it does. It disambiguates sentences from questions.

    If you received a text that read "Buy bread", there are multiple ways to interpret that. If I assume the lack of a period is a statement, then I would assume the person is instructing me to buy some bread at the store. But if there were a question mark at the end, the meaning changes - they are asking if they need to buy bread, or perhaps asking if I have already bought bread or am planning to buy bread.

    Now, if you are familiar with the person on the other end of the text, you might already have the necessary context to parse it out without the need for formal punctuation, but if it's someone you maybe don't text very often or a complete stranger, wouldn't it be nice to know for sure if they were making a statement or asking a question, definitively and clearly?

    Adding an intentional period removes any doubt that it might have been a question. It eliminates the possibility that the person on the other end simply forgot to add a question mark while typing out a hasty text at the grocery store.

    You might argue that period or no, the message got across just fine, and that assuming no punctuation is the same as having a period, but that's not the point. The point is that the period does add functionality, it just isn't functionality that you deem useful.

    I certainly wouldn't want to replace the effectiveness of proper punctuation in favor of having the period be reduced to a means of signing off my messages in a passive aggressive manner. I can do that all by myself, thank you very much.

  • Trump told Jesse Watters he’s building White House ballroom as a ‘monument’ to himself ‘because no one else will,’ host claims

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  • If only the DNC would nominate someone with the cajones to say that as a campaign promise.

    If Trump gets to spend a year on a revenge tour, why can't we have someone go on a justice tour to clean up all the wrongs Trump has wrought?

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  • It's entirely possible that the fight was fixed, but Paul's scheduled bouts do follow very predictable patterns, his opponents are always not boxers or haven't been fighting professionally for years.

    I watched the Tyson/Paul match (on a pirate stream, because fucking giving money to the broadcasting networks for perpetuating this mockery of the sport) and my impression was that Tyson just got gassed in the second round and couldn't recover. He was in his late fifties, had not been actively training for serious fights, and had health problems leading up to the match itself. Meanwhile, Paul is in the prime of his youth and is wealthy enough to afford the best personal trainers and boxing coaches. He might not have much talent, but that barrier can be overcome with extreme amounts of effort and training.

    It's hard to see your heroes fall to villains worthy of such scorn, I'll admit that much.

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  • He pussied out of that one. As much as I dislike Zuck, he definitely trains in combat sports (I think Jiu Jitsu?) and Musk is just a fat loser with a big mouth. He would have lost easily.

  • President Donald Trump appoints Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry as U.S. Special Envoy to Greenland

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  • He's still the governor, unfortunately.

  • So apparently full stops in texts are 'passive agressive' now. What other unwritten rules for texting have changed over the last couple of decades?

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  • The only reason your phone doesn't add the punctuation in for you like it does the automatic capitalization of the first letter is because it can't tell when you've finished your complete thought.

    I'll never let lazy cunts tell me I'm being passive aggressive for using goddamn proper punctuation. I'll be actively aggressive about that.

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    Can anybody in this thread who actively omits periods in texts specifically because of the negative connotations explain to me why they think that having that be a normal convention is actually good?

    Like, why would anybody want an option to sign off their texts with a passive aggressive slant? I can't wrap my head around it.

    The firm believers in the whole "language is constantly evolving and has no rules" thing would probably not like it if future generations decided fuck using punctuation altogether. No commas, no questions marks, no paragraph breaks. It's easier for them because they normally communicate in five dimensional haptic virtual reality where punctuation is an anachronistic holdover. How come you aren't on board with their wacky language rules?

    I don't give a shit if you don't use punctuation in texts or not, that's entirely on you and I don't judge people for using shortcuts, but fuck if I'm going to let someone tell me using a period to end my sentences indicates anything other than "I have finished my thought / I have finished speaking.".

  • World rejoices as MAGA boxer Jake Paul finally beaten senseless

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  • Took goddamn long enough. I really wanted Tyson to be the one to humble him, but I'll take having him get his jaw broken by a real boxer, not just a retired legend.

    edit: Also it's so funny seeing the number of times he tried to shoot for a takedown. Go back to MMA Paul, you don't have the skill for a pure striking combat sport.

  • "YOU VOTED FOR THIS": Ford Shuts Down Kentucky EV Battery Operations, Fires 1,600 Workers Right Before Christmas as Trump Rolls Back Emissions Rules

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  • Tesla somehow successfully rebranded minimalism as luxury, and that was spectacular for their bottom line while trying to sell electric vehicles to people for as cheaply as possible, which they absolutely needed to do because widespread adoption was going to be the only thing that would justify the proliferation of charging stations (where the real money is made).

    Everybody else who tried to follow Tesla in the EV market (after sitting on their hands for years like idiots) thought the secret sauce was minimalism, when really it was just people compromising on features to have the ability to charge their car for a lot less money than it would have cost to fill it up with gasoline.

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  • I'm broke and selfish. Also I hate kids. Also why would anybody choose to bring new life into this shit world that will only continue to get worse?

  • ‘They tricked me’: Migrants were promised $1,000 to voluntarily leave the US. Some never received it

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  • I warned when they announced the program that Trump never fucking pays.

    Anybody who took that deal was asking to get scammed.

  • Only one made it out alive

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  • What about Vixen, Santa?

    ...I said, WHAT ABOUT VIXEN, SANTA?! 🗣

  • Trump holds national address in rally style speech blaming Biden for the state of his nation

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  • No, please, do feel free to comment on American politics as a foreigner. We nonstop cram this shit down your throat whether you want to listen to it or not, so you deserve to have an opinion on how batshit crazy this all looks from the outside looking in.