In the statement, Kelly is confirming, on the record, a number of details in a 2020 story in The Atlantic by editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg, including Trump turning to Kelly on Memorial Day 2017, as they stood among those killed in Afghanistan and Iraq in Section 60 at Arlington National Cemetery, and saying, “I don’t get it. What was in it for them?”
The Battle of Thoth Station is my all-time favorite space fight. (Amos hangin’ in there below decks was a bit unreal, but I can suspend disbelief for this one!)
One small detail that was lovely; they empty Rocinate’s atmosphere so hits don’t turn into fireballs.
EDIT: Watching again and realized the detective’s gun is a Chiappa Rhino. Guess you can’t improve on some things!
We won’t do shit until we are literally starving. Look right here at Lemmy, non-stop memes and stories about how what horrible economic shape we’re in. So how is everyone fat?! Meanwhile, I go to work and look at what’s for sale, at what prices, and think, “Jesus, people pay for this?!”
Even the Great Depression didn’t have us storming the White House. Think on that.
tl;dr: Americans aren’t near broke enough to band together.
We Americans have a serious problem labeling anything we disagree with as “those other guys”. I might even say it’s our main problem. We wouldn’t be where we’re at today without the divisiveness and team mentality.
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Oh god no!
The three major indexes in the US sank after Trump’s comments. The Dow Jones Industrial Average ended the day down 1.4%, the S&P 500 sank 1.75% and the Nasdaq fell 2.6%.
Chicken change. Give the market some time to really sink. It’s coming.
Imma call one thing out; 01/06 was not predictable. Every single one of us watched in pure shock. I watched 8 hours, live, and I cannot do it again, shit left me with PTSD-light. I’ve done and seen some crazy shit in life, but not like that.
Here’s the PBS trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHQ6FoDjeDE
If anyone can take it, I’d suggest a refresher course. The event was worse than even I remember, and I’m a hater from day 1.
All you can eat documentaries:
And they won on memes. Do you not see how social media influences us all? Hell, Mexican dude at work yesterday was talking about how Trump will lower our taxes. (He maybe makes $20 as a supervisor, I make $15 as a noob.) Imagine that. Really take a breath and think on it. Where did that idiot belief come from? Memes.
Hate to admit it, but you’re spot on. I’ll add, in a D&D sense, they’re lawful good. They can’t imagine breaking laws, nor bending them, are shocked that others do so. Hard to explain, but it’s a thing I see IRL.
And yes, values of “good” may differ, but they have a hard-core version of “good” they follow unerringly. They see no nuance in behavior or politics, only black and white, good and evil. They’re like the annoying paladin in the group that fucks everything up over a moral stand.
tl;dr: Religious rednecks are devils, atheist rednecks like me are demons.
Yeah, tell the Filipinos or Taiwanese that the US going down is a good thing. China is constantly testing both country’s sovereignty and waters.
I has maybe planned to retire to the Philippines with my wife, live out our days in her homeland. Now? Fuck.
Yeah, but we’re rocking a steady 1.21 gigawatts off Ronald Reagan’s spinning corpse.
It’s worse than indifference. I posted on NextDoor about NOAA being gutted (this was 2-weeks ago, not about today’s news) and the response was fucked. Got called a socialist, communist, “fuck is wrong with people when we try to reduce spending”, happy to spend money on weather apps as-is (who the fuck does that?!), liberal (in a bad way, of course), some shit about me shitting on vets (?!), on and on. Shit was so hard-on for Trump and Musk it was the most commented post for a week.
It’s too hard. Yeah, we understand the required specs, but the precision machines and rare ores are internationally monitored. Tom Clancy’s The Sum of All Fears was eye opening as to what the terrorists had to go through to make a single bomb. And it fizzled into a “normal” atom bomb.
And I’m not even talking about the experts involved, a physics degree ain’t gonna get it. The precision machining for the tooling alone is mind blowing, then you gotta fab the actual parts. Again, you’re not getting people like that in a room with a LinkedIn ad, and it would be noticed, very noticed, if you tried.
Now if you want to skip 3-stage hydrogen bombs and just roll an atom bomb, still tough, but much more doable.
tl;dr: The nuclear powers would come down on you like a ton of bricks if a country even tried starting a program. See: Iran.
It’s not so much that he lies as that he doesn’t really make a distinction between truth and lies. The only meaningful measure of a claim is whether or not it will serve his goals.
Been saying this for years. The man literally can’t tell a lie, everything that comes out of his mouth is the truth. I don’t think many people have been around someone that’s full-on Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD).
And yes, once you figure out that’s his disorder, he’s as easy to manipulate as a toddler. Also been saying since he won the election, his handlers are in charge this time and it couldn’t be more obvious. Look at his Truth Social posts for one example. They’re far more clear and focused, easily written by someone imitating him. Any one of us could do it.
Zelensky should absolutely reneg. In his shoes, I’d sign about anything, but I’d also be willing to tell the US to fuck off in the end.
Supporting the genocide in Gaza was my first deep shame for my country, and I’m not a spring chicken.
Wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.
Microsoft may fuck up production operating systems, but their Excel product does not fail or change. Not. Ever. Excel is arguably their most rock-solid product.
Why the hell else would the entire planet not change over to FOSS office applications?! Hell, we ran Google for Business at my last job, still had to provide Excel to accounting.
can replace everything that msoffice does
Not Excel. There are billions and billions of man hours in the world’s Excel sheets. LOL, some places use it as a database.
And the real fear is, what if an Excel replacement seems to work, but jacks your numbers up and you can’t tell? Remember when the first Pentium would fail at certain math tasks and people shit bricks? Trust is the issue.
Putin has incentive to negotiate. He has drained the filthy Russians of men and matériel. Of course he wants to stop the war, to rearm and regroup.
Oh. Carry on.