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Fascism has a shallow playbook, and so Kirby speaks to past and present with this stuff.
On the other hand, there's also some hints that Western Bloc / Eastern Bloc competition and proxy wars are alive and well at the time of Aliens (particularly given the UD-4 Cheyenne's obvious role as an anti-armor platform and the M577's plasma array, obvious overkill for striking miners).
There's a few hints here and there that the USCM are mostly over-glorified strikebreakers, sent in when colonial workers (such as those seen in Romulus) try to unionize. Thus the pejorative 'bug hunt'; extraterrestrials aren't their normal targets.
bsky.app/profile/noca...
So even if each one only carries two mines, if you have four dozen of 'em, you can lay a lot of mines even with some attrition. And you don't even have to hit anything to make tankers (and their associated insurance companies) refuse to enter the Strait.
Speedboat technicals aren't really something the US Navy has sensors to detect, small enough to operate out of basically anywhere, and cheap enough that Iran can have uncountable dozens of them for the cost of one anti-ship missile that can't hit one anyway.
The year is 2042. Geno Smith is 52 years old and has just won the Super Bowl MVP Award playing for the Cincinnati Bengals, coming after a one-year contract signed in the wake of Smith's third departure from the New York Jets.
I am absolutely floored by this:
"AI helps developers release more software, but they're logging longer hours fixing problems after the code goes live."
Yes, bugs make it into production. If your tools make that problem worse, IT'S A BAD TOOL.
www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-...
("As you and I both know") If you get the US Protestant Heresy talking safely amongst themselves, they'll happily discuss how all other sects need to be wiped out. Not Jews or whatever. But that _other_ non-denominational megachurch down the road. That sect needs to go. Heretics, apostates, etc, etc
( It is 2026 and humanity is only able to communicate in nested cultural references; "Wesley and Timber Wolf at SubscribeStar" )
I guess the sooner I realize the markets are untethered to reality and formed on the basis that everybody thinks everybody else in the racket is a fucking moron, the more of my sanity I can reclaim (the White House said no such escort had taken place, but only after buying the dip)
A fish decided to walk, and now I have to use pivot tables.
Wesley Snipes in New Jack City about to raise his gun and tearfully shoot a friend. His line of sight has a Mad Cat from the game Battletech in it; a giant robot with a digitigrade stance. Sorry, Mad Cat. It's immoral to be horny for your 40 LRM tubes and twin Extended Range Large Lasers anymore. I'll miss you, friend. *BLAM*
Flat guarantee they try to ban shortstack goblins as 'child-coded'. As one would expect, what with all the children with J-cup jubblies out there.
I'm not convinced that anybody working wage labor is part of the problem here.
Difficult to emphasize just how much a generation of kids has been taught that being dishonest, superficial, and narcissistic is the pathway to attention and therefore success
Of course, I can't ever get past JKR talking about how if she'd been born a decade or two later, she'd probably be a trans man. Which you'd think would be a giving-the-whole-game-away sort of thing to say, but here we are.
Like, "being a woman sucks and nobody normal would want it, therefore trans women are all insane QED".
> They have this idea that being a woman is supposed to be hard / no one is supposed to enjoy it
I have seen this explicitly articulated by cis women, particularly ones steeped in the transphobia native to the Peculiar Island off the coast of France. It was _weird_.
It's definitely funny and I wish I could have remembered it well enough to explicitly reference it in my over-thinking.
...it's more like "four grim-faced normal people vs three reflex-damaged products of the Hound program, which was designed and implemented by people mainly concerned with vicariously getting off".
I was gonna say, Evil Empires don't develop and maintain programs such as these because they're militarily effective. They do it because it's emotionally satisfying to the senior political and military leadership. It's not "Glorious Kirin vs five We Broke This Hound Yesterday"....
THESIS #1: The movie "Defending Your Life" is an isekai
THESIS #2: The "Left Behind" series is a reverse-isekai, in which the protagonists deal with having been _not_ isekai'd even though many others have.
Post your favorite "Lord of the Rings" character. Wrong answers only.
(being the last book I read, here's a lvl 17 wizard with a Necromantic school specialization)
Two panel comic FIRST PANEL: A man has pissed himself in public. A large crowd has gathered around to point and laugh at him. SECOND PANEL: The man in close up, surrounded by the derisive laughter of the crowd, thinks to himself, "Heh. Rent free."
"I'm sorry for the deaths, but"
Let me stop you right there
Figurines of Brady Bunch and Partridge Family fighting each other
I have created a diorama of the Partridge family attacking the Brady Bunch family. My life is very boring.
Tweet from @RepOgles: "Muslims don't belong in American society. Pluralism is a lie."
Disgusting is not a strong enough word to describe how absolutely vile this is.
This rhetoric is un-American and has no place in this country.
