broken bokonon

kid rock

I feel like there should have been a dividing line somewhere between Arizona and like Idaho, tho. Just one big “west” region seems unhelpful at best.

The good news is that apple just did the same thing too

The Dark Star Trek section of the game is so fun.

This. I hate that we’ve adopted their marketing terms. I’m not 100% sure LLMs will be a complete boondoggle, but this doesn’t look like that.

The single most damaging thing to our “lethality” was drumming trans service members out of the service. Even if they had simply stopped allowing enlistment/conscription, it would have been preferable to breaking the compact to our comrades-in-arms who kept the faith.

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Or even worse: Yale

sir chic-fil-a is working class

Look, there’s nothing inherently wrong with Mastodon, but if you’re going there to escape moderation problems, uh

look hell, someone finally made the electric shooting brake and I think that’s wonderful.

The average caveman spent less than thirty five seconds selecting a rock for combat, wheras intercontinental ballistic missile programs often fail to produce results after days, weeks, or even months.

tbf to Fury, a lot of US tankers at the time believed myths like that about the tiger specifically, mainly because they hardly ever actually saw one.

I've always thought it was a good *design* but it wasn't until the late war that they were able to get their manufacturing to a level it could make a reliable tank out of it.

we didn't like the aircobra because the driveshaft was a maintenance nightmare, but the soviet pilots loved getting them in lend-lease because it could out turn almost anything thanks to that extra torque, and their attrition was so high they didn't care as much about servicability.

Not to mention the p-40 warhawk, an *interwar* fighter that was so good it still operated with upgrades in the China theater until almost the end of the war.

Also the p-51 tends to overshadow the p-47, which was possibly the best all-round fighter of the early/mid war. It was kinda ugly, i guess, but that's part of why i love it.

and considering it was initially designed as a medium scout tank, its ability to field across the entire european theater in almost every tank role shows that at the very least it had good fundamentals to its design.

It doesn’t even look like an early p-51! It looks like the marines’ buffalo lol

I have questions about that p-51 tho

I mean i'm just an NCO, but I did go out of my way to find out what my responsibilities are under the UCMJ. There's no carve out for rank, but there are processes under regulations to adjudicate illegal orders.

I'm not against prosecuting them, I just think it's a plausible defense.

I'm not a lawyer; at some point I have to take a lawyer's word for some of these things.

if you go to legal and say "i think this order is illegal" and they say, "no it's good fam, here's the legal justification from COCOM's legal office" i don't think it's unreasonable to at least be able to present that as a defense.

If you do some form of due diligence to verify the legality of orders that seem wrong to you, that should at least be some form of colorable defense imo.

They should at the very least be concerned about it.

you have to remove jet program from the computer and add robot program. That takes a turn.

dang, and here i was picturing him having to count out 174,000 dollars, doing that old timey thumb lick between bills

does he just show up at the treasury window and get a sack of money

absolutely wild how the speaker of the house is straight up just acting like he's the president's employee.