there should be a realistic cold war wargame where you just manage a US military base in germany in the 70's and 80's and deal with drunk driving incidents and inventory and there's a 0.01% chance every day ww3 breaks out
(Looking at the same desperate attempts to be Rome made by every single European power + America for hundreds of years) duhh is he doing a hecking nazi symbol?
there was a choice in the first half of the 20th century between hydro and atomic power, metal and glass, trains and boats, or oil, plastic, and cars, and the choice that was made has fucked us so titanically and irreparably
Japanese scientists find microplastics are present in clouds
Researchers in Japan have confirmed that microplastics are present in clouds, where they are likely affecting the climate in ways that are not yet fully understood.
The team identified nine different types of polymers
many people have talked about the second half of this tweet but seeing it again makes me think how many grimy detective stories do we really have nowadays? it's not really like a super common genre anymore i feel
@megkmag
@redrawnoxen
I like how with Bernie sanders, basically every single time you stumble upon any facts from his past it's just another case of him being correct and ahead of every other politician
@b1g_damage
the only thing worse than psycho doctors who think patients are faking it 75% of the time are chiros who are just seemingly legally allowed to do the secret kung fu moves that break your spine that people thought existed in like third grade
@tokyo_vamp
I think it’s really good that we’ve built society based around having a majority of the world work utterly fucking miserable jobs and live miserable lives so people like her can do almost anything they want with no consideration of how it affects others
@neko_girl92
combo of finance capital and the fact that after a few physicists realized the nuclear bomb was bad the world embarked on a successful program to make sure no engineer or scientist would think about philosophy ever again
@kvnrogan
It really is remarkable how Americans think we’re always one thing away from making single family, two car suburbia dependent on massive amounts of underpaid, overworked labor totally sustainable and possible for everyone
this is why i love cybernetics in the classic sense
people talk about transhumanism like “ooh what if robot arm” when it means that we built machines to let people look at the world like a snake seeking prey and it sung the hunt into their ears
@tokyo_vamp
@AgainstStan
makes sense for americans, especially rich ones
is there anything more american than going "wow that sucks hope somebody else does something about that cuz im certainly not changing my life
the funniest possible solution to the current climate crisis is that we develop fusion power just in time, avoid the biggest issues, and learn absolutely nothing
it would be such a funny historical accident for the biggest change in energy in 100 years to happen under fucking Brandon. I now want this just so he ends up eclipsing the Obungler in history
@RaceplayShawty
theres reports of us soldiers having little pictures of fdr and stuff and legit breaking up when he died and you look at what he did and like yeah ok i get it
holy shit: texts obtained by
@JSweetLI
show george santos (née anthony devolder) set up a gofundme so the dog of disabled veteran could get a life-threatening tumor removed. santos took the $3,000 raised and disappeared. the dog died.
this stuff is so funny because it’s always like “wow man under communism i might have to work a dogshit job all day? that’s so much worse than now where i do the same thing”
@Fivogyh
the simplest way to put it is tactical is winning battles, strategic is winning the war
bombing factories and cities is textbook strategic bombing; knocking out tanks in combat is tactical bombing
guy whose city was shredded by nazi artillery pieces and only exists because the red army, including millions of ukrainians, broke the back of the fascists in the largest conflict in human history: i can’t believe the soviet union ruined my city in 1995 somehow
I hate what the Soviet period has done to our cities.
With all their imperfections, most cities enjoy a sense of uninterrupted history – made of people and the senses they breathe into the physical space of the city.
But my city’s history was brutally cut away.
God bless the president and the first lady. If you pray, please pray for their speedy and complete recovery — and for everyone infected, everywhere.
This virus is horrific and merciless — no one would wish its wrath on anyone.
We must get its spread under control. Enough.
@viperwave
it’s funny how these guys claim to be individualists but hate anything that tries to point out that maybe individuals get caught in the gears
@nise_yoshimi
look the tank needs five turrets because it’s like a battleship, two machine guns, two high velocity guns, and one small caliber howitzer, give it a total of 20mm of armor max and call it a day
the past 30 or 40 years has been a slow, global process of transition from liberals who caused horrors but could keep societies functioning to reactionary morons who throw fits if you don’t let them run things into the ground intentionally
This has been what the discourse within Israel has been for the past year. Their own intelligence services said that their policies of repression were hurting their security. They were not only ignored but denounced by the government. Is it acceptable to point this out?
the only control many people feel they have over their own lives or the lives of others in this rotten country is at the muzzle end of a gun and there’s no sign of this mass of rot changing the slightest bit
#UPDATE
A Chesapeake police spokesperson tells us at this point he believes no more than 10 people have died. It’s unclear if the shooter was an employee. The shooter is now deceased. Officers are walking through the Walmart super center checking for victims.
@WAVY_News
@ChicagoMSTie
@jfruh
managers who don’t have cop brain are rare and very nice, 75% of the reason I left my amazon warehouse job is because of a new manager we got with severe micromanagement brain
there is something fascinating about how looking through 20th century american speakers - eugene debs and mlk jr, for just two examples, the art of rhetoric fell off hard
@LLW902
the French, however, riot literally whenever the government tells them they're gonna have to work 12 hours a week instead of ten or something, which is cool
@PinstripeBungle
the string of worn government buildings and church facilities that feel like they haven’t been updated since 1975 is also vital
i can feel exactly how the paint is cracking in those places
@DragonCobolt
@shaun_vids
the founder of somethingawful, he generally made the world a worse but slightly funnier place and for that his shockingly large influence will be completely forgotten by almost everyone
Trump today at his rally in Allentown, PA: "By the way, nice trucks. You think I could hop into one of them and drive it away? I'd love to do it. Just drive the hell outta here. Just get the hell out of this. I had such a good life. My life was great."
this rules because Americans are so used to a completely dysfunctional society that seeing a competent liberal state do the basic functions it’s supposed to do is shocking and horrifying to them
In the 1990s, America had 51 major contractors bidding for defense work. Today, there are only five massive companies remaining. Defense contracting should be reworked to break up the massive contracts awarded to the big guys and create opportunities for firms of all sizes.
every american medical professional spends 24/7 calling their patients hypochondriacs and refusing to do their jobs and then they get mad when you don’t respect them 100%
The sky over New York tonight!
A feat by our team - it’s one thing to get some drones, but another to coordinate with the FAA and the many other local and national regulators and get all the permits and follow all the protocols and look out for wildlife and the environment and
it’s gonna be war communism or fascism, not because people ~want~ it, like that means anything, but because other options will not be something possible given the world
@ItsBCJim
i’m an unemployed loser and i wish i could just show up, get shuffled into a boring job, and just get told what to do but that pipeline doesn’t exist anymore it’s baffling
@m1ndjelly
@Java_jigga
@NakedSavior
dragon ball and naruto are the two universal pieces of human culture, kids from literally every country and place on earth saw it and were like "yo thats me"
they all love hitler and think 15 minute cities means making that illegal and replacing it with pronous, their brains are made of leaded gasoline and a miniature ronald reagan
Seriously, 15 Miniute Cities should be absolute gold dust for the 'Do you remember when kids could play in the street and we all walked to the shops?' Facebook group crowd. Can we somehow capitalise on this?
navy seals rule they’re unbelievably dogshit as soldiers and literally all they do is murder civilians for fun and then start companies that sell no homo coffee or isis hunter tshirts
In both of these cases, SEALs attached themselves to Army units before big air assaults at the last minute without much explanation. In both cases, in theory they were there to help with their vaunted sniper skills; in both cases they wound up making messes for the Army instead.
@donoteat1
millennials: please dear god we'll even help you keep the hell of empire together all we want is literally anything, any amount of money and help
empire: wot if we made food an app will you like that