Iirc, the bullet didn’t graze his ear. The bullet hit the podium or something and some splinters from that got his ear.

He’s crossed a line that cannot be uncrossed.

You say that like it’s news but that’s his whole thing. It’s the reason he’s popular.

I’m pretty sure the astronauts signed up knowing the risks. They’re also extremely trained for this mission which is why they were able to resolve it. They aren’t just along for the ride.

Why the animosity?

During my bad trip I just thought I shit and pissed all over myself and tried to sleep on the kitchen floor since it would be easier to clean than the sofa.

It’s officially called the A-10 Thunderbolt. “Warthog” is a nickname service members gave it. Similar to the F-16 Fighting Falcon getting nicknamed the “Viper”.

Does this mean that Iran haven’t mined the straight? Or did the ship just get lucky?

Haha where’s this image from? Hahaha like where could I find others?

TBH, I’m not against this. For Europe, NATO is a defense alliance mostly concerned with Russian aggression. For the US, NATO is a tool of imperialism. Trump said in this article that the reason he’s considering leaving is that NATO countries didn’t assist in the Iran war. The implication is that NATO is for supporting US interests or the US doesn’t honor their obligations.

I think that a European alliance shouldn’t be led by a non-european power. I think that the US should reduce its defense commitments abroad and lean on the fact that the US is one of the most easily defended countries on earth. The problem is that Trump doesn’t want to pull out of NATO to lower US defense spending. He just wants to re-write the world order to put himself on top.

One big problem here is that there isn’t a current mechanism for a country to leave NATO. It would weaken the credibility of the alliance if a country could back out whenever they felt like it. There are 2 ways this could be solved:

1. Amend the treaty so that the other countries could kick out an existing member rather than allow the US to withdraw.
2. Create a new NATO with everything the same except the US is no longer part of it.

I think either of these would open up a lot of chaos because countries would want to seize the opportunity to remove other problematic members like Hungary or Turkey. It could undermine the unity and credibility of the alliance.

Don’t get tennis elbow patting yourself on the back. Your individual actions won’t matter unless you can bring industry with you. The best way to do that is to help people gain class consciousness. The best way to do that is by not considering your individual actions as relevant.

Stealth just means the plane can get closer before a sensor can detect it or get a firing solution. It doesn’t mean it’s invisible. The IR video looks pretty close to the plane considering you can make out what plane it is just by the shape. Probably US intelligence didn’t know about this sensor and would have flown around it/attempted to destroy it if they had known.

I miss being able to play Rivals of Aether 2 with a GameCube controller. My to my knowledge there’s no good way to connect one on Linux.

I completely agree with you and disagree with the dismissal of some of the other comments. I grew up in South Carolina and worked in factories for years. I’ve met a lot of rednecks of all types. There’s this weird tendency on the left to associate rural people with backwards mindsets which is just straight up classist IMO.

Most of them have felt politically abandoned by neoliberal policies sending their jobs overseas and politicians courting city-dwellers. Trump told them he wasn’t going to abandon them, that he was going to bring back factory jobs, that elites in business and government have been giving them a raw deal. I can’t blame them for taking a chance on Trump when the alternatives were career politicians giving them more of the same. People like to pretend that rural voters aren’t voting in their best interest but they knew Kamala, Biden, or Clinton weren’t going to do shit for them. South Carolina is filled with small “historic downtowns” that are clearly 50 years past their prime. They’ve seen what the status quo does.

The good news is more of them are seeing trump for what he is. I know this from actual rednecks telling me this. These people are anti-establishment, anti-government, and often pro-union. I really don’t think it would take much to swing them left. The one sticking point is…

Racism is still very much a thing among rednecks. Most have lived a blue collar life and developed a thick skin. As a result, they see “woke” stuff as a bunch of soft people who never really worked demanding everybody cater to them rather than deal with life like they did. Nobody is irredeemable and many of them are quirky weirdos in their own way. I worked with this old trump voter redneck that used to DJ and introduced me to Baby Metal. Another kept a my little pony figurine zip tied to his toolbox. My brother had trouble making friends in high school until he met the rednecks. He later told me “if nobody will accept you, the rednecks will accept you.” There is capacity to accept people not like them.

IMO, a politician running on a platform of economic left-wing populism would run the rural ballot. Literally rework Trump’s “drain the swamp” narrative except actually mean it. And actually follow through. Invest in rural communities. Go after corruption which is huge in rural areas. Actually listen to their concerns and address them rather than dismissing them. Any worker can be an ally in the working class struggle.

Ahh fuck

My crackpot theory is that we’re 10 years away from e-ink displays becoming the new hot thing. The clarity of looking at something that isn’t backlit is great. If they can solve refresh rate and resolution, we’re there.

I think you’re probably right. I still think it’s important to point out that this lawsuit, even if successful, won’t take down Valve. Steam and CS2 will still be around. If it is successful, it might force other platforms to change how they handle lootboxes too. Singling out Valve won’t mean that steam is down and we all need to use the Epic store. The flaws of this lawsuit and it’s motivations don’t mean that we need to excuse Valves bad behavior. You aren’t doing that here but many people feel the need to pick sides. We can call out the lawsuit for being largely a political stunt and call out Valve for profiting off of child gambling.

Billionaire owned tech companies that controll a market so tightly they pretty much have a monopoly shouldn’t be anthropomorphized so fondly. I want you to vomit up that Kool aid.

Again, those other marketplaces are bad too. Saying Valve is bad isn’t saying another company is good and calling another company bad doesn’t mean I have to say valve is good.

Village toymaker? Wow.

Not everyone, but plenty of people in this thread do. And plenty of gamers in general excuse their bad behavior.