I played the trumpet for several years and I love that instrument. It’s bad enough that the names coincide; please don’t make it worse 😭

Thanks for the info! I’m aware of JDAM from following the invasion of Ukraine, but I wasn’t aware of the whole arming process.

Now, I may be underestimating my ignorance, but that doesn’t look like JDAM to me. Seems a bit small. Also, the fact that the pilot suddenly looks toward the wing tells me that he was expecting it to shoot out in front, and only felt the mechanical release (or do they use small explosive bolts? I’m more versed in spaceflight so that’s my only other guess 😅) and saw no visual confirmation that it fired.

Edit, just saw your edit! It’s a gbu-12 I guess

Jokes aside, would this pose a threat other than the physical impact? I don’t know many specifics about aircraft and their ordnance, but would this missile be armed just before launch, or once it clears a safe minimum distance, as with RPGs?

I felt like I was alone in being frustrated at this trend. However I found a bit of relief to discover, through messing around in a Win98 virtual machine, that they were occasionally using the term “app” back then as well. Of course it wasn’t as ubiquitous as it is now, but whatever.

Also I thought I’d never see the Xbox kid meme again. What an unexpected throwback!

I’m sometimes prone to this happening, but once I started driving a manual transmission, it hasn’t occurred even once. I’m forced to pay more attention, and it’s even fun sometimes! Downshifting to pass someone is such a joy 😁

We need #EyesOnBreen right now

Hear hear. There’s only one thing worse than giving these people the benefit of the doubt, and that’s supporting them.

Gigachad move

I try to use em dashes when I can, but I think they’re used wrong in the comment above (IIRC they’re not supposed to be surrounded by spaces, but I could be wrong). What tips me off is the unambiguously “LLM” narrative voice and structure (“let’s break it down”, followed by an ordered list). Not that a human can’t type that, but sometimes it seems like ChatGPT is incapable of spitting out words in any other structure.

The ugliness of that bust is surpassed only by the subject himself.

Normally I scroll past most hope-posting, but this one spoke to me. Maybe it’s how upfront it is with the first sentence.

Thanks for posting, friend.

That just means that those who care about humanity should never ever stop or ease the diplomatic pressure. Show him what it means to be an actual leader, not a despot.

And these are the leading theories. Now let’s see the crackpot ones!

And the usage of “you people” feels intentionally pointed. Insulting to everyone’s intelligence/sense of empathy.

Then they go on to claim that they’ll make sure mass shootings won’t be tolerated in this country. Well where the fuck has this person been for the past few decades?

Reminds me of Mitch Hedberg’s banana joke.

I think it’s more like he fell near his sword such that it went harmlessly in between his arm and side, played dead for a few seconds, then checked through one half-open eye to see if anyone bought it.

I mean I know most of this admin are complete buffoons, but for some reason I can’t give him the benefit of the doubt. Maybe because it took this long to own up to it, and other people in the group chat denied multiple times that it even happened.

Oh definitely, it’s just that when I searched the communities, the only result was on .world

I’d love to see an active expanddong community here. Looks like .world has one but it’s super dead :(

Yeah, that’s a good idea too. It would probably be useful to look at the progress from multiple angles.

It would be so beneficial to present these data on a linear scale. So few people understand log scales that the impact of this graph is being weakened.