Evan Schultheis

We will eventually run out of SeaRAM. And the Mk. 45 lacks a Guided Munition.

Part 3.

Part 2, with more from the veteran. Please note that security is perp walking the Marine out of the hearing WITH HIS BROKEN ARM TWISTED BEHIND HIS BACK.

Different angle, showing the lead-up:

[TW: graphic fracture, sound of breaking bone]

Sen Tim Sheehy (R-Montana) badly breaking the arm of a Marine veteran protesting the war Iran.

Thanks

No words.

Several of my friends who are Gold Star spouses are noting already the military is putting up job listings for people to sort personal effects.

That decision has already been made.

Several of my friends who are Gold Star spouses are noting already the military is putting up job listings for people to sort personal effects.

That decision has already been made.

Spain’s PM: “If we truly believe in the freedom of Iranian women, the answer cannot be more violence. NO TO WAR.”

U.S. sub sinks Iranian warship off Sri Lanka, killing 87 and expanding war zone A U.S. submarine sank an Iranian warship off the southern coast of Sri Lanka, killing dozens of sailors and dramatically widening Washington's pursuit of the Iranian navy.

A US submarine sinking a lonely, dinky Iranian surface ship an ocean away from the theater of the main conflict—and 9000
miles from North America—makes it pretty clear the US is fighting a general war, without the declaration required by the Constitution. www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

Bill Gates-Backed TerraPower Wins US Approval For Advanced Nuclear Reactor TerraPower LLC, a nuclear power company backed by billionaire Bill Gates, has received approval to build America’s first commercial plant using next-generation reactor technology.

The first Gen 4 Nuclear reactor has officially been permitted by the NRC for construction:

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Hmm... I wonder what the implications of this will be for Russia's operation of its nuclear-powered cargo ships. I wonder if they'll try to use radiophobia as a deterrent from missile strikes.

marine traffic updated!

"Sir, we serve bangers here."

Post a meme made by you:

I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the *most* cursed.
Grammarly is generating miniature LLMs based on academic work so that users can have their writing ‘reviewed’ by experts like David Abulafia, who died less than two months ago.

The problem with a lot of leftist youth is that they read book 1 of Marx in college & have zero political or communications skill beyond organizing panels 10 people attend to talk about "struggle".

I've met the smart socialists and they're dangerous people. And they almost always run as liberals.

Me and my 600 hours of Baldur's Gate 3.

Just to be clear I'm not endorsing the author of the article or his ideas at all. Just discussing this as a problem for Star Trek's world building.

It does. I'm not disputing that. The problem is family sizes still tend to be smaller on average (usually the average ends up being too small to meet replacement). Educated (which usually correlates to left-wing ideology), wealthy women choose to not have kids at really high percentages.

Also you can immediately tell he didn't watch numerous TNG, DS9, and ENT episodes that contradict this:

Access to energy would result in the Global South outbreeding the US and Europe and using up all the resources was actually a foundational cornerstone of the environmentalist & anti-nuclear power movements. We now know that assumption is false - giving people electricity makes them reproduce less.

Yeah statistics are weird but the reason those many kids are born are usually due to lack of access to education, energy, and health services. Adding health services back into the equation reduces the birth rate. Education (especially for women) even more.

These assumptions that giving people (1/2)

Even historical NA colony or baby boom growth rates would struggle to yield the numbers stated on-screen.

Housing and food abundance does tend to lead to family formation and population growth even with birth control, but we see quite plainly in multiple episodes that even in the 2300s establishing a colony on a world with Earth-like conditions is a treacherous affair.

Ultra-conservative governments *could* explain the population recovery post-WWIII due to draconian abortion and birth control laws, combined with post-2079 food abundance and housing availability. We know the post-Atomic Horror lasts until the 2090s and eugenics conflicts continued through it.

It goes both ways. I've been working on this problem for a while because there's no way Earth could rebound to a population of 10 billion or for Federation colonies to have populations in the billions (of humans at least) in the timescales given.

(Also welcome to the World Bollard Association): bsky.app/profile/worl...

One of my favorite road experiences was a dude in a convertible passing on a double-yellow line on Elizabeth Ave in Charlotte and flipping me off after I yelled "that's illegal!", only to get stuck in a line of cars at the light as I rode right past them all.