That’s the real indictment of USA. There will always be demented megalomaniacs, but we expect to be able to stop them. The Framers didn’t expect a Congress so corrupt, cowardly, and weak

We do things bigger! The many terrible things that we’ve perpetrated are unfortunately not unique among the cadre of world superpowers; the same way that rich people are “eccentric” instead of “crazy”, we’ve gotten passes on our worst transgressions because a) other world leaders are also bad, and b) there was a veneer of justification.

What makes the recent(ish) shift stand out is tone. This entire Iran excursion isn’t the worst thing we’ve done by far, but it’s displaying weakness in how blatantly base and stupid and venal it is. Tongue-in-cheek, it’s Gauche - when we’ve aspired to expect a more refined dystopia.

The response I’ve seen is blah blah “imperfect vessel” [Armageddon]

So, we’re pirates. Cool coolcool

I get why folks’re cheering this but it seems dumb to me. Shooting at houses has all the consequences of a real assassination attempt with none of the possibility of success. Altman’s just going to pull a zuck/bezos and buy buffer properties or move to Florida or something.

I saw a random guy posted in the shopping district of Kyoto with an “end genocide of Palestine” sign. Bibi is burning down Israel’s global standing to stay out of jail

They aren’t targeting the subset of the population that uses OSM. At the pace (mis)information spreads, they only need to make it a bit harder to find truth

A more cynical guess is that it’s so that the scale of destruction doesn’t have an accessible paper trail

“What town? Never heard of it. Glory to the buffer zone”

At least not above the baseline self-hatred that makes them fascist to begin with

I could see Shane saying “fuck it”. Then again, there’s a witch flying around somewhere and the thunderstorms are pretty intense…

136 (over the 135, 2/3 threshold) projected with 53% now!

I dunno. I think that insurance will usually only cover Replacement Value, so if it cost them $20 per item and they sold it for $25, they could only claim $20. Then compounded with failure to meet contracts and updated cost of production (may cost $21 to make now) I doubt that they made money. You’re right that the cost of insurance is where the real hurt will be - see ship insurance in the Strait

That’s not entirely fair since they voted for a broad anti-PAC measure earlier, they just don’t want to also single out AIPAC. Maybe they should tho

Wasn’t there a user that swore up and down that ken martin was built different? This looks like more of the same

I saw that they announced the sequel but haven’t looked at any trailers yet. I played this first one in early access and it was pretty good but I never felt compelled to check back in after full release. Will be interesting to see how they iterate with 2

Or else, what? We’ll open fire on tankers?

China believes in the future. We don’t

Very well said. The other consideration is that many regions of USA are more prone to earthquakes, and wood structures can flex in a way that concrete and brick cannot. Wood is fine for most people.

Liability is going to be the death knell for broad scale reliance on any of these llms. Removing liability is the only path towards profitability

“chocolate” in mainstream candy is such garbage now. I couldn’t bring myself to get the kiddos Reese’s peanut butter eggs this year and I used to love those