Living near military installations would be the big exception. I live probably about 20 miles from a massive radar facility that can track planes from across the Atlantic ocean, and doing anything within the area to set something like that off would probably have the MPs knocking on your door long before anybody else. I think even flying drones above a certain height isn’t allowed for miles around.

They never implied that the US is the whole world. They merely mentioned what I assume is the regulatory body that they’re familiar with.

If I said that the regulatory body who would be knocking on your door in France is ANFR (L’agence nationale des fréquence), would you complain about how France isn’t the whole world?

I get that we’re all sick of American-centrism, but that was a really benign comment. They have no way of knowing what your country’s regulatory agency is offhand.

I think there’s a cliff between affordability/knowledge and payload capacity that has kept this from being practical. Then there’s the traceability aspect. Where and how you buy it, how it’s controlled, etc. A drone controlled by a smart phone can be traced back to that phone, for example.

A drone is far cheaper than a missile, but the military can drop thousands on a drone and not blink an eye. That’s not something that’s practical for the average person, and the skills required to build one are also at the higher end of hobbyist level skills. It’s similar to 3d printed equipment. 3d printed guns are a thing, but it’s generally easier to go buy some PVC pipe for a barrel and a nail for a firing pin. Or just buy a gun, they’re about the price of RAM nowadays. People have even printed RPGs and man portable anti-air/anti-armor missile launchers, but it’s not something even your average skilled hobbyist can do.

The day somebody makes a flying pressure cooker out of an R/C car, though, all bets are off.

Yeah, and guns don’t kill people. People kill people!

This is making some heavy assumptions about what the average MAGAT knows about Jesus. As far as most of them are concerned, Jesus’ favorite gun would be an AR-15.

For them, the Bible is merely a thick paper tweet to be used to smack anybody who disagrees with them like a cartoon character smacking a dog with the newspaper.

This is also the second time that he’s tried this. The first time was during his previous term, and though he was forced to reopen everything by the courts, the fact that he sold some of the federal land to (I think) oil companies was never acted upon, despite it being illegal to sell public land to corporate interests.

When was the last time an American was held responsible for a war crime?

In my lifetime, we’ve been doing them since Bush Jr was in office, and I’ve never heard of a single one.

Here’s a video she did of a 3d printed supersonic rocket. I think it’s the Mach 2 one, but I don’t exactly remember:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=HU3YnVzqExA

The short of it is that the creator of Lemmy and the earliest users are Marxist-Leninists, and certain blocks of them are so actively hostile to anyone who doesn’t immediately agree with them that their instances are on the auto defederation list if you were to spin up your own instance.

We’re talking like the communist version of 4chan levels of users amongst the worst of the group, but plenty of the other actually reasonable communities are bitter about liberals et al being on here. You’ll occasionally see posts about how the new users are diluting the quality of the user base like when Reddit started to become popular.

I feel much the same way. In the past 48 hours I have been called a pro-genocide fascist and Blue MAGA, amongst other similar things, for 1. making a comment about the aggressive behavior of Grad users and how similar it can be to 4chan users aka those who fell into the MAGA pipeline, and 2. explaining to somebody why somebody else asked them who they voted for when they made a comment to the extent of “both sides support genocide.”

I came here to find a new egg_irl and traaaa, and what I’ve gotten is politics and leftist infighting.

I stand for the rights of the people. I hold no loyalty to any party or country. But I wouldn’t expect any other kind of comment from an ml user.

As the old saying goes, “In the north, they don’t care how loud you get, so long as you don’t get too close. In the south, they don’t care how close you get so long as you aren’t loud.”

I remember watching a video from a physicist who failed her pilot’s license exam because she explained that and the modern theories of how airplane flight works instead of the old wingspan, weight, speed, and air density over the wings model.

Needless to say, she took the test again, gave the answer they wanted, and the video was about her building a plane out of wood about a month after she finished the launch of her Mach 2.1 capable model rocket.

That’s incorrect. The Dems first ran the sitting President who vowed that he would not run a second time and waffled about for an extended period before saying he was running, and then waffled about some more before dropping out due to the extremely tepid voter opinion on his running and the Dems declaring that they weren’t going to hold a primary and appointed Kamala as the candidate.

She was already a contested candidate with very mixed opinions on her track record, plus general discontent with the party leadership, and that was before the Democrats gagged her and her running mate when they found the most effective political campaign move they could ever possibly use against Republicans when they called them “weird,” and then the Dems shot the campaign’s legs off when they started dragging around conservatives to speak at campaign rallies. In places where they had people like Cheney speak, the Dems dropped a full 3-5% in the polls afterwards compared to before the campaign speeches.

Kamala herself definitely played a part in it, as did sexism, but truthfully the Democrats, like with Hillary, looked a gift horse in the mouth and started sifting through the pile of horse shit behind it for “moderate conservatives.” I bet if they had run a candidate like AOC and, you know, actually appealed to their base instead of avoiding talking about the things that their voters cared about, things would’ve been rather different. But they’ll never willingly run an actual progressive, so we’ll never know.

Hell, there were (are still?) segregated schools up until around 2000. I know at least one wasn’t set to desegregate until sometime in the 90s.

This got me thinking: How is this any different from the ending of the books?

Harry becomes a magic-cop and goes on to uphold the draconian institutions that enforce goblin slavery and Muggle oppression/classism.

Ah yes, please forgive this fascist genocide supporting worm of their sins of not hearing an internet meme! I shall present my backside for proper flagellation forthwith!

I’m getting mixed signals here. Blue MAGA means Biden-Harris supporting pro-Israel and their genocide Dems, but now it means leftists who believe that the Dems can be used as a stopgap to elect actual leftists who care for the people like Mamdani?

And this isn’t a flame out, you’re the one who accused me of being a pro-genocide conservative. I’m merely over here being confused about what the hell you’re going on about and explaining why I use the term for Grad users specifically.

Less overthinking it and more that people have seen her political opinions in the past decade or so, and looked back at the books to realize “Oh, in hindsight there’s so much of her politics in these books.”

There’s so much stuff in there, naming a Korean girl two Chinese last names is just scratching the surface.

Maybe not, but it’s definitely a symptom of a larger problem. Taken on its own, having the stereotypical Irish IRA member/drunk kid is a gag, but when you look at that plus the black kid named after slavery, the Asian girl named two single syllable last names (practically named Ching Chong), and a number of other semi-racist stereotypes in the books, it points towards somebody who is uncreative enough to avoid basing her characters on generic stereotypes or doesn’t do any research before writing a character at best, and somebody who actually views those people that way at worst - a racist.

Since when? I’ve literally never heard it used in that context except for your claim here that it means…corpo Dems I guess? Anything to the right of your views I could understand - that’s how Grad works and why they call socialists fascists or conservatives. For not being communist enough. Hence why I refer to them as Blue MAGA. That, and the fact that they outright harassed Blahaj on our own server to the point of defederating to protect the users. Again, because we weren’t Communist enough for them. They see little difference between most forms of leftists and conservatives.

And what the fuck does any of that have to do with being opposed to genocide? That’s just common sense. The only people that I’ve seen who aren’t opposed to the genocide in Gaza are racists and politicians/companies who are gargling Israeli nuts for $20.

I’m not even a Democrat. Milquetoast centrists and moderate conservatives slurping corporate dollars are not for me. I vote Dem for the few actual leftists among the party and the rare independents who are forced to work with them and because the only other choice is hatred and racism except when MAGA isn’t just outright stealing from the people.

You can fuck all the way off.