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I think I see. To your knowledge, does any nuclear power operate in this way? I'm only slightly familiar with the US system, and I just checked the UK and from what I'm reading, both countries pretty much have the president/PM as having ultimate authority.

While checking, I also read that the UK's submarine deterrents don't need launch codes from the PM at all, and rely solely on military discipline to prevent an illicit launch. Not entirely germane to this talk, but it's an interesting difference - and it's certainly less bound up with executive power.

the bugs are back

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Oneiro-not today, Satan

It's never, but also that

Have you even watched Spy X Family?

I will say, I got my current impression from Hardcore History. The logical insanity episode - I'm open to the idea that it's wrong, but I'm not just going to switch views because it's being called cold war propaganda. Can you throw me a bone here?

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This is fake, right?

I think Late Night With The Devil, though it did feel more like a thriller. Loved it.

...I thought we were just having a friendly chat up until now. I know this is a touchy subject, but Lemmy is too small to mistreat one another over differences of opinion.

I'm a convert, personally. I used to buy cheap eggs in America and I'd always drown them in hot sauce and salt to give them a flavour. Now in England I don't buy eggs unless I'm in the mood for eggs, and it's always really good ones, sometimes duck. There's just no comparison, and I feel a bit better about how the animals are treated of course.

I'm only pointing out that nukes are fundamentally a threat to the rule of law. We can't invent a world without them just yet, but we should at least think of them as a systemic threat to the world we're trying to create