well, if you come across the puppet master, let him know that his puppets suck.

somehow, i think we’re well past the iran-contra affair level of scandal. We have 2-3 contitutional criss including a present using money without proper oversight; different but the same. We also have a president providing things to a heavily sanctioned antagonist nation (russia,)

oh and he’s doing the broke-dick nazis thing.

I’m curious what you would consider a “big enough scandal”.

they’re talking about sub-o cargo things, yes. But the only thing you need that kind of global delivery window, and don’t want to keep, you know, mostly discrete… all make really big explosions.

the launch vehicle could just as easily be used as a ballistic missile of any sort as a cargo thingy.

But again, we have Best-in-Class military logistics; and we have bases all over the world staged with teams ready to go. any conceivable thing that would need a 90-minute response is so niche, it’d probably never actually get used. the cost of just a single launch vehicle is probably a fairly large chunk of the operating costs for those bases; and those methods of deployment don’t come with the added issue of being really freaking obvious.

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Gotta laugh at something, right?

Anyhow fuck the assholes that are threatend by Big Bird.

Nope. Stegal is busy.

I wonder how many Russian troops got saved by judo chopping a drone?

Honest answer? Nukes.

Or rods from god.

But the system doesn’t chill in orbit- it launches on Sub-O trajectories to get the cargo or payload in place quickly.

The problem is it’s only slightly more subtle than a nuke in the face, costs ridiculous per launch, has extremely limited capacity, and is only a few hours faster than say, Mach 6 (aka hypersonic.)

We already have a best in class logistical system that makes either of the hypersonic or sub-o systems… extremely niche.

WH should cut it’s losses and fire Kegseth already. Dude’s an embarrassment to whatever species of slime mold he devolved from.

Did he install it himself?

Like. Did download it and deploy it on the wrong computer?

“what was kiwifarm”, basically.

He approves stuff. So I am at a loss to understand how he can fuck it up so badly and at such a basic level. Even if he is partying all day and all night, if he doesn’t give two shits, shouldn’t he rubber stamp shit?

the budget request is probably collecting dust in his in-box while he’s multiplexing online poker tables. or raid shadow legends. he looks like the kind of guy that plays raid.

He’s also seriously infuriating certain congress people who… would really love him to do his fucking job and get the budget request in.

Ritchie Torres is a democrat US representative from new york, whose been on the wrong side of genocide since Oct 7th kicked off the current bullshit, Kehlani is a nonbinary pop singer whose been very vocal about supporting palestinians and calling out israel for the genocide that Torres seems to support.

I don’t know if Kehlani supports hamas, but she’s made statements that, uh, certainly could be interpreted that way. (or, just general support for palestine more broadly.)

either way, it’s probably worth pointing out that Torres is one of the top recipients of AIPAC contributions in 2023.

Context?

It’s almost as if it were a joke.

I guess I was understating the slowness, lol.

I do wonder if it might not actually slow down evolutionary change by removing otherwise beneficial traits?

Probably not on the scheme of things. It’s not like alcoholic mums haven’t always been around.

The only “dinosaurs” that were around at the same time anything vaguely human was, was chickens and such other theropod descendants.

We, uh, ate them.

It’s a forums for the worst sort of troll, they target trans, people with disabilities and people who are neurodivergent, and also posted the manifesto of the asshole that shot up the mosque in Christchurch NZ.

Edit to add: the dm may not be genuine. Lots of weirdness. I would suggest just not dropping anything to anyone you’re not already comfortable with the internet knowing.

Wait. the pope kissed his sister?

I don’t know where it came from but I love the idea that Nog beat the Kobyashi Maru without cheating (by asking them to name a price.)

None of the birth defects caused by boozing it up whilst pregnant affect the genetics of the child. it disrupts the development, and does not generally effect the genetic make up.

in short, fetal alcohol syndrome is not a heritable trait and have no reasonable effect on ‘the rate of evolution’.

Keep in mind, evolution is a slow process consisting of gradual changes resulting in divergent species.