CarbonIceDragon

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Has this kind of thing literally once in history ever ended well?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Zeppelin can launch and recover planes, therefore its true role in the fight is "aircraft carrier"

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

everyone knows when you cut the sandwich in half, you get two sandwiches instead of one. You cut diagonally because the triangle sandwiches are bigger than the rectangle ones you get from cutting down the middle. /s

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (2 children)

IIRC the space force basically just is taking what was air force space command and spinning it off into its own branch. So they'd not be doing much that wasn't being done before so much as making that operation independent of the air force, same as how the air force used to be part of the army.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I found it mildly humorous that I had to do one of those cloudflare "prove you're a human" checks when opening this

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 month ago (8 children)

Every time I see this meme, I'm reminded of this, which basically argues that the shire is just a specific type of feudal system, that looks like a place of rulerless plenty because the main characters are mostly that systems informal equivalent of nobility.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Protests can be an implied threat. Consider that when a state is resisted violently, a certain number of people is generally required for that effort to have a shot at success. When protests gain large enough numbers, there's an implication of "we have all these people angry about this thing. Imagine what might happen if they were to stop being peaceful".

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (3 children)

this is making the key assumption that the number of people that exist in the future is the same as the number of people that lived up until now, which seems unlikely. A bigger issue Id think is that if the universe ends (or really just the world, the universe is overkill), then all those time travelers from the future never can exist to do this in the first place, making this a classic time paradox.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Whatever his charisma might be, if he runs in 2028, that's good at least in that it would require his father not have managed to remove elections and term limits by then for it to occur

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Consume the upper class? Vore the bourgeois?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Every so often that kind of thing goes badly for them. Just ask the French

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Honestly I think tariffs could be a good thing if used in certain ways, but certainly not in the manner that the orange idiot has been applying them. They act to make targeted products more expensive, so if one was to specifically tariff goods made under labor conditions that would be illegally substandard in this country, such as under safety conditions that wouldn't meet our regulations or with purchasing power adjusted wages that would be below our minimum, and set the tariff amount so as to make those goods just a bit more expensive than if they had been made under conditions that at least met our standards, you could reduce the economic incentive for companies to outsource to places where they can exploit their workforce more, and reduce the incentive for those places to avoid improving their labor laws. Trump would never use them for something like that though.

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