And it’s current-day Boeing. So there’s actually a really good chance.

holy shit that needs an NSFL tag, that is cursed

genuinely the first time a meme has made me shiver in primal fear

Lemmy, every 5 seconds:

guys are you aware the united states sucks

guys
guys

I don’t think you’re aware

the US sucks

guys

listen

hey

the US sucks

did you know that?

guyssssss

like, yes, I get it, we suck, but also it’s exhausting being unable to emigrate anywhere and being constantly reminded of how much suck I get to endure for the rest of forever.

Gonna be honest, whether it’s a bot or not, the idea of banning people for voting on posts or comments in some way you don’t like is deeply funny to me.

“YOU’RE INFLUENCING THE MADE-UP INTERNET POINTS THAT DON’T MATTER! EEEEEEK!”

even I’m not so terminally online.

Yeah, my mother was able to earn a bachelor’s degree (iirc? either that or an associates), paying for it by working as a cashier at McDonalds.

The fucking eighties, man.

My anger as I approach my thirties, unable to afford college even when I was working full time (before I lost my job), can not be overstated.

no, this is patrick

Oh my point isn’t that waiting will fix the problem, just that there will be an “after trump”, whether he likes it or not

I mean, Hitler was not in his late 70s, but his mid fifties. Chances were quite good that, were it not for the Allied invasion and his cowardice, he could’ve lived naturally another ten or twenty years (his health was shit but that was mostly down to drug use, and hey, Ozzy Osbourne is still alive, it could’ve happened), so yeah he kind of had to be stopped.

Donald Trump, the way he eats, you think he’s going to live past his term? That he’s going to be lucid enough by the end of it, to try and hang on to power? Nah, man, by that time they’ll have convinced him to live out his remaining time (if he doesn’t die in office) at Mar-A-Lago after endorsing a Heritage-Foundation-approved successor for the 2028 race, and hope his endorsement carries that candidate to victory. That way they don’t have to try and remove the two-term limit. They kiss his ass, make him feel like a living god-king, maybe even have him meet with said successor on a regular basis to placate him into believing he still actually runs things.

Now, could they try repealing the 22nd amendment? sure, but it’d be far easier to convince an 82 year old senile narcissist he’s still the BMOC pulling the strings. It also has far better optics.

Not really, just for someone who comes after him to hold him and his cronies accountable. And there will be someone after him, sooner or later, that will. It might not be his immediate successor, or his successor’s successor. But people aren’t going to forget about this.

I’m quite positive, whether he invades a sovereign nation or not, in some time – be it five years, ten, or more – we’ll have our own version of the Nuremberg trials. Whoever is still alive that perpetrated or participated in this rape of democracy will be held accountable, someday, because all dictatorships fall.

The only question is how many people have to suffer before then.

“I’m not a Nazi, I just want to do all the things Nazis do without having to deal with the criticism Nazis get!”

bro I’m sorry but all the money in existence can not buy your way out of reality and the fact that doing nazi shit will get you called a nazi.

the fact that any amount of my tax dollars will be going to a parade just for this cunt’s birthday makes me seethe with fury.

I would but there’s a site I use called RVRB that only works with Spotify Premium AFAIK, and I enjoy the site too much to give it up. Great way to discover new music.

Yeah, but we have no useful way to channel the energy from nuclear fission into propulsion, so that’s a moot point if we’re talking in practical terms. At least, we don’t without irradiating everything. My point was not that combustion-based propellants are energy efficient, merely that it takes a lot of energy to escape gravity, and while theoretically nuclear propulsion would be more efficient, in practice, burning shit is really the best we can do without giving someone cancer every time we want to put something in orbit, because gravity is a fuck.

legit I pay for Spotify and I love spicetify, been considering canceling it because spicetify and revanced spotify exist

Au contraire, mon frere. “Sir Isaac Newton is the deadliest son-of-a-bitch in space.”

if you have enough mass moving quickly enough, someone’s gonna have a real bad day. Gravity is fantastic for getting a lot of mass moving very quickly, it’s why space missions slingshot around planets to get from A to B instead of burning propellant straight there. Even dropping tungsten rods from orbit can get you atom-bomb-sized explosions, and if you had any means of (even weakly) accelerating them before that, gravity would help further accelerate them.

That, and have you seen the amount of propellant required to overcome gravity? Compare that to the amount of fissile material you need to make a viable nuclear device. It’s peanuts. A (small) nuke might as well be a rounding error compared to the amount of fuel you need to overcome gravity and leave earths orbit, gravity is that much of a fuck.

ackchyually

I seed all my torrents to a ratio of 1.10 and I’m on Mullvad, so clearly someone out there is benefitting.

Exactly.

The president was asked by a reporter on Wednesday if he had spoken with Xi Jinping, the Chinese president, about the tariffs that have sparked a potentially costly trade war between the countries, and have led to predictions of empty shelves before the end of the year as imports dry up.

Trump said he had not, and offered his own prediction as to how Christmas might look for American families.

“Somebody said, ‘Oh, the shelves are gonna be open.’ Well, maybe the children will have two dolls instead of 30 dolls,” he said.

“So maybe the two dolls will cost a couple bucks more than they would normally.”

Some real “let them eat cake”/“it’s one banana, Michael” vibes. Like the average American family has been buying “30 dolls” for their kids for Christmas for years. And people thought Biden and Kamala were out of touch with the economy?