Mirshe, mirshe@lemmy.world

Also the relationship is really in an “it’s complicated” thing. Remember, “Gollum loves and hates the Ring, just as he loves and hates himself.”

The Marcos regime comes to mind too.

Actually basically yes. NASA has had decades of practice at minimum viable operation capability, making their spacecraft and rovers all but drag themselves along even when anything else would stop working.

Logistics has ALWAYS been the US backbone since WWII. We’ve always prided our army’s ability to put damn near anything damn near anywhere within 48 hours. This is FAR more alarming than a lot of people seem to get.

Incontinence is a side effect of frequent, consistent stimulant abuse.

That being said, it’s important to know how to sanity-check the math, especially in the era of Copilot in Excel. We just found that our company’s configuration enables it by default on new workbooks, as we found when it was just…making up numbers when asked to do simple addition.

Arguably, there would be decent historic precedent for excommunicating Vance RIGHT NOW.

I will also point out that the idea of a pre-tribulation Rapture is not biblically well-supported, and was pretty much made up out of whole cloth by dispensationalists in England as a way to make the idea of a doctrine focused on Revelation more palatable ("see, you’ll be taken to heaven in secret one day before all this happens"). It’s taken a LOT more root in America than it did in Europe, to the point that it’s mainstream doctrine among a lot of churches (thanks Tim LaHaye and Jerry B Jenkins for doing that, you weird fucks).

There were some survivors. Some died willingly knowing what they were doing, a lot of them wound up being forced at gunpoint. The entire compound was being guarded by men with rifles, since they were rightly afraid the US was just going to come down and kill them because the cult had legitimately just murdered a US congressman.

Fun fact: the actor ad-libbed in “locked” instead of “encoded” originally, and it worked well enough that it became a thing right then, pretty much.

This mission especially brought the “space travel is fake” crowd out. The rocket launch explodes over a deserted area, nobody’s onboard, all the missions are faked, and the splashdowns are in restricted waters to sell the simulation.

Usually this is on top of “well you can’t survive the Van Allen radiation belts”, as if radiation safety and shielding is not a problem we understood and solved before we even lit off Mercury.

Ultimate reasoning for it is either a vague notion of “control”, bread and circuses, or “they do this to defy God”, because space isn’t real and the Firmament lies above the sky.

He pardoned a literal war criminal. Eddie Gallagher shot at civilians so much his team fucked with his sniper equipment to make sure at least his first shot or two missed, to give people time to get away.

My brother gets this a lot when he goes out with his daughters, and I have been told my dad got this a lot when I was a young child.

Some things get the NASA staff cut on reentry. Yes, I do believe that if he was told to do so, Isaacman would absolutely have killed those astronauts by making reentry changes that would be deadly.

Yeah, same thought here. Even if we reach back to the American Civil War, aside from mechanization, a professional soldier from that era might not find it too much different. The fire support, like cannons, are now usually a dozen miles away (or airborne), but a tank isn’t too distinctively different from an armored traincar, and really the biggest confusion might be the lack of high mobility forces like cavalry.

7, but yes, he’s said that he’s the same person he was in first grade.

Surprising amount of Esperanto speakers, and a few people who speak it as a native tongue.

Cue “Cat’s in the Cradle”…

You’re not throwing propane bombs at libraries if you’re doing some sort of “precisely targeted attack”.

Don’t forget that they’re also very much into the idea of eugenics.