Don’t let the name fool you, ICBMs not only have a much larger range but they also (generally) have higher payloads and they’re designed around ‘user servicable’ and swappable warheads.

They’re sending a message and it isn’t “we could hit you even if you were thousands of kilometers away”, it’s “we could bolt a nuke to this bad boy”

Find a way to connect to those you disagree with.

I’d rather find a way to integrate them into society in such a way that they aren’t actively trying to destroy it on multiple fronts as if it’s some sort of prank

McMahon, co-founder of WWE

Draining the swamp lol

I’ve been on Adderall since I was 9 and my relationship with food is basically waking up hungry, taking some pills, and then being hungry but having absolutely no impetus to act on it… And 12 hours after waking up everything wears off and it’s suddenly ‘food horny’ for lack of better word. Profoundly, ravenously hungry.

I’ve basically been training my whole life to saunter into a pizza place and order a 16" pizza and eat the whole thing in 15 minutes.

Professional competitive eaters are nuts tho, this pizza place near me has a challenge to eat a 16" specialty pizza, I did it for shits and giggles after work one day in like 20 minutes, but on their wall of finishers, a professional eater stopped in and ate the whole damn thing in 2 minutes and 49 seconds, that’s terrifying

All the single issue economy voters realizing the Trump administration is single issue too

And those saner people handed Trump Thune instead of Scott via blind vote. They know what’s up. Like I said, sane people do not want to be in his administration. They want to babysit his administration. Nothing good comes from befriending that guy and everyone on Earth who doesn’t believe in hurricane machines knows that, even GOP.

Practically the only people who are around Trump are riding his coattails for their own reasons and they have no qualms about it

It’s not like he has much choice. Sane, reasonable people aren’t exactly raising their hands at this point and the only people clamoring for roles are batshit quasi-politicians who have similar contempt for any institution that has a basis formed in reality but wildly different agendas

Edit: dunno why you downvoted me. Honestly, who else do you think would take these positions? Pence? Kelly? Barr? Mattis? Haley? Christie? Tillerson? Milley? Bolton? Scaramucci? Cohen? DeVos? Chao? Grisham? … Bueller? Dude’s a fucking joke. Take the wooden spatula and start scraping that barrel out because there’s absolutely nothing but sludge

There’s a substantial assumption that the wealthy know best how to manage wealth and the economy but it’s all predicated on the notion that those wealthy people are willing to act in the interest of everyone, when in fact they tend to act on their own personal interest (I mean, if someone has a net worth of over a billion dollars and they’re trying to accumulate even more money, that should give you a good idea how their policy will affect people who are making 40k/yr). They tend not to want to create jobs or increase wages more than they want to improve quality of earnings, because they stand to lose a lot and they somehow want more

It’s normal and actually kind of cool by design - the ‘fediverse’ is basically a bunch of different servers (instances) that can all connect to each other. I’m on Lemmy.world, my other account is on midwest.social, but when I’m looking at posts from all communities on either of those I see more or less the same stuff from all the other communities across the other instances.

But some instances have a theme, like Midwest.social is kind of intended for people from the midwest, but anyone can join. Lemmy.ml is kind of a communist hangout. Solarpunk(spelling) is a lot more eco-conscious than other instances.

You can join any instance you want, sometimes after you join an instance you notice a theme that doesn’t really vibe with you, but you can join a more ‘vanilla’ instance, stay on your current instance, or look around for some instance that’s really into whatever you’re into.

But at the end of the day your credentials on an instance are basically a passport for all the other instances, and it’s mostly gonna be a legit good passport.

That said, if an instance goes to crap from bad moderation or from horrible viewpoints or culture, other instances can basically block it, and if you’re on an instance that becomes defederated your basically cut off from all the other instances, so you better go find a better instance, but that doesn’t happen all too often

If that alone isn’t enough to dissuade people with strong Christian values, there are 10 marriages and 25 confirmed children between those 4 guys, and the majority were born out of wedlock. Two of them haven’t even hit 50 yet. Gaetz oddly enough drags the average down with his vanilla ‘no kids, 1 marriage’ kind of lifestyle. Definite ‘keep dick in pants’ problem

Tulsi Gabbard also released a statement:

I think the sad thing is that if Trump has any hard skills, it’s probably reading fine print in contracts to find gaps or flimsy ambiguous wording, so he’ll probably just get worked up over the fact that Biden won this battle and go be dumb elsewhere.

It would be funny if he was mega dumb and just cancelled it all but he basically carved out a name for himself by being a weasel so that’s unlikely.

Props on Biden for the one finger salute tho lol

Not nuked yet but if I gotta choose between being nuked for standing behind some pretty reasonable principles, or living and allowing some strong arm bully to do whatever the fuck they want under that threat, I guess I’ve found the hill I’m willing to be nuked on

Trump actually can’t do that in this scenario (well he can but it’ll royally fuck him over) which is kind of funny.

If it was in the budget and money was handed out at intervals via appropriation he could just turn the faucet off, but since it’s a loan and the principal disbursed to the debtor, it falls into contract law, which is very pro-contract with probably a couple centuries of precedent.

Boiled down, only way a creditor can force a debtor to pay the remaining principal in full outside the terms of the contract is if they put an Acceleration Clause in the contract. Usually those are thrown into loans in order to recover any collateral in the event the debtor does not fulfill the terms of the contract. IE: someone quits making car payments for enough time, repo guy shows up, they auction car and apply it to the balance and demand the rest due immediately.

But acceleration clauses in practically every contract ever drafted, they’re contingent on the debtor’s performance in upholding the terms of the contract, so they almost always come into play if and only if the debtor quits performing their duties.

So without that, or if the acceleration clause isn’t applicable, debtor almost always has the right but not the obligation to pay early, creditor has no right to do the same, and creditor’s only real way to get out of the loan is to sell the rights to the debt (the servicing) to someone else, or to issue a COD (cancellation of debt). Cancellation is as it sounds, they just tear up the contract and let the debtor walk away (edit: I should note that the unfulfilled obligation is treated as taxable income for the debtor, like a gift of sorts, so they gotta pay tax on it and then walk away, but slightly pedantic). Debtor keeps whatever you gave them, debtor no longer has a contractual obligation to pay you back. It’s almost always used alongside negotiation, for example bankruptcy, they might say “if you give us this much money we’ll eat the rest of the loss”, kinda compel someone to pay that creditor first and give the creditor some way to try to wring out a couple bucks that would otherwise be a pain in the ass to collect.

So basically Trump’s only real option is to sell the debt or just do some big loan forgiveness thing lol

No, it’s all the same in that regard - a ladybug will have a far higher surface area to volume/mass, and that affects terminal velocity.

Ladybug might have 10 square millimeters and weigh .05 grams, 200 square millimeters per gram

Elephant might have 15 square meters and weigh 5000 kilograms. 15 million square millimeters and 5 million grams, so 3 square millimeters per gram

But the elephant in the room (slaps knee) is momentum.

Let’s say, hypothetically, we shove a ladybug and an elephant off a 125m cliff and pretend they both have a ridiculously high terminal velocity. That’s enough for them to reach 50 meters per second or 180kph. .05 gram ladybug’s momentum would be an infinitessimally small 2.5 kg·m/s, meanwhile the elephant is at 250000 kg·m/s, and the elephant explodes.

The thing that makes the ladybug survive the fall (ridiculously low mass relative to surface area) is the same thing that would make a ladybug freeze in minutes if you tossed it in a freezer. Conversely, elephant wouldn’t really be bothered by a couple minutes in a freezer.

It’s that rapid change in internal body temperature that stresses smaller fish out, dumping them in water that is much colder or warmer than them

I was thinking more of the tried and true soviet RKG3 and the half dozen variants/clones. They’re terrifying when they work, but everyone figured out that cope cages and improvised shields create such a gap that renders them mostly useless, and at the end of the day it’s playing lawn darts with a tank. For some reason they’re still all over the place, probably used more for IEDs or destroying infrastructure than tanks

It’s almost like they don’t understand that the whole reason Alex Jones is forced to sell Infowars is because he victimized a whole bunch of people who would not like to see anyone else go through what they endured.

Hopefully judge laughs in their face because this isn’t an arm’s length transaction and they’re probably intending to hand it back to him

Yay capitalism. Feels like just yesterday the big airlines noticed Spirit and Sun Country’s little niche and decided to just roll over them, hopefully they’ll keep posting losses to offer dirt cheap fares but we all know how this stuff goes

Yeah, the basic premise for these things is that they have a smaller radius, but you can throw them further, so the enemy has to deal with it exactly the same, but since the radius is smaller and you threw it further, it gives you a much larger space in which you can advance and not worry about shrapnel. Basically lob a couple and while you don’t have to deal with so much suppressive fire, advance and find cover and do it all over again.

For defensive scenarios, you generally aren’t advancing, you’re just wanting the enemy to not advance, so a pineapple works just as well, if not better. It gives you a big boom, and psychologically that gives you an edge. You might also get flushed out and wind up in close quarters kinds of environments where the grenade on a stick just doesn’t work, but the pineapple is easy enough to lob out of a window or bunker or around a corner. In any sort of urban or close quarters environment you’d want the flexibility of a baseball as opposed to throwing a bat.

Kind of a trench war novelty, but they’ve evolved to be more of an antiarmor thing - throw a parachute on it so it’s aligned vertically, make it detonate when it lands, make it blow straight down as opposed to all over the place, and try to get that thing to land on a tank

One of the bigger reasons has to do with the square cube law - as the size of something increases, surface area increases by a factor of 2 but mass increases by a factor of 3, so little fishes have a surface area-to-mass ratio that is quite a bit higher than a larger fish, and they’re more susceptible to abrupt changes in temperature.

Kinda like how an ice cube will melt a lot faster than a big slab of ice, the core temperature of some small fish like a goldfish is gonna change more rapidly than the core temperature of a big fish like a trout so they tend to be a lot more finnicky in regard to significant and instantaneous changes to temperature and stuff. A larger fish might shrug off a significant change because it affects them more slowly, but that might be a totally wild an overwhelming experience for a little fish to go through