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  • Most of them likely voted. The 2024 general election had about 65% turnout. The protesters only make up a few percent of the population.

  • This is the right take. There's more that goes into than just achieving that number. It is necessary, but not sufficient.

  • Would you say that Ferdinand Marcos believed in human rights and did not care for his popularity?

  • Take a look at this video: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/zZGi0Y1EPmo

    You can see here how the arresting wire--which carriers have used anyway for a long time--tends to be the thing that takes up most of the speed. The plane doesn't slide against the runway so much as bounces a few times and stops.

    There must be heat built up in the arresting wire system, of course, but no more than a traditional plane with landing gear doing the same. In fact, there is probably more energy transferred to the deck and the airplane skin than with rolling wheels, so the arresting wire system should have less kinetic energy turned into heat. All that heat is spread out more.

    Also, not all of the energy is transferred as heat, either. Some of the momentum will make the boat go a little faster.

  • Marching in step is basic training stuff. They know how to do it if they want to. The fact that they didn't is very important.

  • Yes! I think that's a very important hint. These guys know how to march in step. It's drilled in to them from day one in the military. They didn't do it, and their commanding officers aren't making them do it.

    I'll probably be accused of being an optimist again, but I think June 14 is when we started winning. That comes from multiple angles.

  • And in this particular case, the soft lining of the esophagus wouldn't necessarily get the stinger stuck.

    One of the my childhood friend's dad swallowed a bee once. He nearly died, and frequently said it was the worst summer of his life.

  • Important to note this is the Royal Air Force. Unlike the US, the Royal Air Force covers both land and naval based aircraft.

    It's a surprisingly good idea for carrier aircraft. The landing gear on carrier planes has to be extra durable because carrier landings are rough. Getting rid of landing gear would save a lot of weight and a big source maintenance.

    Worked pretty well. The only reason it wasn't pursued was because carrier aircraft do land on regular runways, and nobody wants to convert every single runway to a bouncy version.

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  • It's not like they're part of a company whose core product is search.

  • Dime a dozen. It's not hard to get a used cop car at auction.

  • Actual impersonation. From a CNN article:

    Around 3:35 a.m., another call came in when officers were proactively checking on Hortman’s home. When Brooklyn Park police officers arrived they noticed that there was a police vehicle in the driveway with emergency lights on and what appeared to be a police officer at the door, coming out of the house, officials said. That individual immediately fired a weapon at them, Evans said, and exchanged gunfire took place during which the suspect was able to escape.

    https://edition.cnn.com/2025/06/14/us/minneapolis-targeted-shooting

    I don't think a cop doing this would shoot back at other cops. They'd report back that the perp was long gone and they saw nothing.

    Edit: lol, the guy is a rent-a-cop

  • Guessing Tucker is more in bed with Russia than Trump. Russia is in bed with Iran. Now it's the worst foursome scene on Pornhub.

  • Yes, it is. All those white men had the freedom to push that Mexican guy to the ground and handcuff him. See, that's real freedom, according to the Ten Commandments. It's why we should put the Ten Commandments in every schoolroom, so people know what they say, and how they say DEI is bad. It's right next to the Commandments about how oil belongs to America and the KJV is the only valid translation.

  • He's the guy who looked directly at the eclipse, so yeah, he'd probably do that, too.

  • Bets on Donnie forcing it to go ahead anyway?

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  • Honestly, they'd be horrified at a bunch of things, some of which are on MAGA, and some on progressives. Maybe we shouldn't be taking the ideas of slaveowners from over 200 years ago as seriously as we do.

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  • "You guys cured smallpox, and there's people who are working against the cure?" - Also Ben Franklin, who lost one of his sons to smallpox

  • How to win debates on the Internet 101.

    In 201, you learn how to do it with more Latin.

  • Or one of those centrifuges. Would sustain it longer.