I believe I read that not only are micro plastics unavoidable, the amount entering the environment produced by any organization is an order of magnitude higher than anything we produce at home.
Especially anything that comes in plastic wrap.
I didn’t call it, but there’s nothing quite like a war to distract the population from rampant decline at home.
This one is weird though, Iran is allied with Russia. Israel is allied with the US. Historically, this made sense.
But Trump and Putin playing war together would benefit both of them. It allows Putin to pull out of Ukraine because “Iran provided us much help and they need us now.” And it allows Russia to maintain the war economy. It benefits Trump because he wants to play war.
Neither leader would have any actual skin in the game, it’s just people’s lives that would never contribute in another meaningful way to their power.
I don’t like this. This is feeling more 1984 than 1984.
Edit: I like this even worse after I read the specifics of the KC-135R and KC-46A. Each can carry about 200,000 lbs of additional fuel. A single F-15E can hold 13,000 lbs internally. 30 KC-135Rs can refuel an entire F-15E 460 times. Israel has 7 KC-130H (60,000lbs) and 7 Boeing 707s (which is what the KC-135 was based on). This isn’t just escalation, this is staging for invasion.
They will claim violence. But by numbers alone this can be done peacefully. ICE are cowards. They won’t engage a group as large as anything we’ve seen in any city so far.
It was very nice of him to warn the cities.
The population knows how to gather, and they can gather quickly.
This is how this resistance becomes material. Stand up for your neighbor. Make sure your neighbors stand up too.
And then I’m a single father, so I’m just fucked!
If God created man in the image of God, and these people can’t create, are they human?
It says it was located 600m down in 2015. That’s not too bad, military subs have a max depth of like 400m, but deep sea submersibles can get to like 11km. An remote vehicle would be much cheaper at this depth, and wealthier financiers could easy afford salvage expeditions.
But where it was located is not public information. That limits it’s salvaging opportunity immensely. I would also suspect that Columbia has spent some effort securing the salvage, if they can’t afford to retrieve it.
Yeah I’ve been looking at them since @LilBOkChoy said something. They must be newer. They are quite literally impossible to see.
Seems appropriate for a police state though. China must be jelly of them
Goddamnit. Would explain the lack of police cruisers I’ve seen up there.
In Minnesota?
Cop cars are very distinct. Big white and black SUVs with guard rails and big ass lights. They look like they’re going to run you over fun. I call em intimidation transports.
Walz is governor. His statement is intentional. He needs to be seen as “giving good advice”.
He knows it won’t stop anyone. Just like during the George Floyd protests. He knows what he’s doing.
Yes. But the part that non-violence allows is that we can set it up to fight on our terms rather than theirs.
They want gun battles. Charging into enemy formations. Units vs units. They want to make themselves heros of battle. But they will do it only if they convince themselves they will always win.
That’s not how the modem organized military can be defeated. They will be defeated by guerilla tactics. Assassinations. Sabotage. Economics. The first thing that needs to happen is for the population to witness just how much they support each other.
The DNC may be useless, but as long as they keep MAGA thinking the opposition is weak, they will massively underestimate their own vulnerability.
From all available intelligence, no. They clearly have a nuclear weapons program (which are insanely huge to begin with) but there has never been a measured test, and no evidence of enriched uranium at a high enough purity to be weaponized.
It’s insanely hard work to created weaponized enriched uranium. With the sanctions Iran has had for decades it would be next to impossible for them to get all the stuff they need to create it on their own.
I still like the prospect that it will literally rain on his parade.
I keep laughing about it.
Scrumlords I love it
Yeah I gotta get my workplace to get on board with it. Rust->Webasm is simply amazing
Oh so they are having the desired effect.
Weird thing to admit, but these guys don’t strike me as the type to understand much about anything.
I was going to say, it was clearly heading in this direction for a long time.
Four days?
They were gone day one where I live. Where the fuck did people find them 4 days after release?
Yes. I love it.