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  • There's something ironic about the Trump Mobile site having a GDPR cookie notice.

  • Oh, yeah, once you break down everything happening in Factorio or Satisfactory, it's pretty quickly apparent that you're the bad guy in this story. I often hum "Paved Paradise, put up a parking lot" while playing them.

  • Sure, but the important point is that they know how to do better than they did. They're refusing on purpose.

  • At the end of this term, George W Bush had around 30% approval. By that point, his administration had so obviously failed in multiple avenues that even Republicans were disowning him. By mid 2009, the Tea Party was pretending they weren't the same exact people who supported his every major action in the first place.

    That 30% number can be taken as close to an absolute floor of support for any sitting President.

  • Most of them likely voted. The 2024 general election had about 65% turnout. The protesters only make up a few percent of the population.

  • This is the right take. There's more that goes into than just achieving that number. It is necessary, but not sufficient.

  • Would you say that Ferdinand Marcos believed in human rights and did not care for his popularity?

  • Take a look at this video: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/zZGi0Y1EPmo

    You can see here how the arresting wire--which carriers have used anyway for a long time--tends to be the thing that takes up most of the speed. The plane doesn't slide against the runway so much as bounces a few times and stops.

    There must be heat built up in the arresting wire system, of course, but no more than a traditional plane with landing gear doing the same. In fact, there is probably more energy transferred to the deck and the airplane skin than with rolling wheels, so the arresting wire system should have less kinetic energy turned into heat. All that heat is spread out more.

    Also, not all of the energy is transferred as heat, either. Some of the momentum will make the boat go a little faster.

  • Marching in step is basic training stuff. They know how to do it if they want to. The fact that they didn't is very important.

  • Yes! I think that's a very important hint. These guys know how to march in step. It's drilled in to them from day one in the military. They didn't do it, and their commanding officers aren't making them do it.

    I'll probably be accused of being an optimist again, but I think June 14 is when we started winning. That comes from multiple angles.

  • Agreed. Even the political compass is just an imperfect model.

    I think a better model is a connected graph. A socialist advocating for unions and an anarcho-syndcalist are going to have a direct connection. So does an ancap and a christian advocating the prosperity gospel. But you'll have to go through a lot of steps in the graph to connect ancaps and anarcho-syndcalists, because as we all know, the two have nothing to do with each other.

  • Personally, I help run a makerspace. In fact, I had been doing that for years before calling myself an anarchist; seeing how things work in a volunteer community makerspace is what made me think that maybe, just maybe, we actually can run society in an anarchist way. Yeah, things are a little messy there sometimes, but in the end, I think we do get the stuff done that needs to get done. People are a little less dependent on a capitalist system because of it, and learn a little more to rely on their local community.

    Politically, I tend to work alongside a lot of socialists. Anything that takes us towards improving unions and mutual aid is good for me. Partially, this is also because anarchist groups are notoriously inconsequential. It's a lot of "I'll get this done, right after I have this joint". Socialists are more like "lets get this done, then have an edible". One of these is more productive than the other.

  • And in this particular case, the soft lining of the esophagus wouldn't necessarily get the stinger stuck.

    One of the my childhood friend's dad swallowed a bee once. He nearly died, and frequently said it was the worst summer of his life.

  • Important to note this is the Royal Air Force. Unlike the US, the Royal Air Force covers both land and naval based aircraft.

    It's a surprisingly good idea for carrier aircraft. The landing gear on carrier planes has to be extra durable because carrier landings are rough. Getting rid of landing gear would save a lot of weight and a big source maintenance.

    Worked pretty well. The only reason it wasn't pursued was because carrier aircraft do land on regular runways, and nobody wants to convert every single runway to a bouncy version.

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  • It's not like they're part of a company whose core product is search.

  • Dime a dozen. It's not hard to get a used cop car at auction.

  • Actual impersonation. From a CNN article:

    Around 3:35 a.m., another call came in when officers were proactively checking on Hortman’s home. When Brooklyn Park police officers arrived they noticed that there was a police vehicle in the driveway with emergency lights on and what appeared to be a police officer at the door, coming out of the house, officials said. That individual immediately fired a weapon at them, Evans said, and exchanged gunfire took place during which the suspect was able to escape.

    https://edition.cnn.com/2025/06/14/us/minneapolis-targeted-shooting

    I don't think a cop doing this would shoot back at other cops. They'd report back that the perp was long gone and they saw nothing.

    Edit: lol, the guy is a rent-a-cop

  • There's a sizable number of Christians who say the Trinity is part of the definition of Christianity. That's dumb gatekeeping, but if they insist on it, then the first three Presidents were not Christian. Washington was a diest, which means he would reject any divinity status for Jesus. Adams and Jefferson both explicitly rejected the Trinity.

  • Guessing Tucker is more in bed with Russia than Trump. Russia is in bed with Iran. Now it's the worst foursome scene on Pornhub.