Nukes are still lurking quietly in the background, of course, but the Resistance is perfectly aware of that and still seems confident to go ahead with operations, so I can’t really do anything but shrug and say that I trust them to do what’s right.
In my more conspiracy-minded moments I wonder if there’s a secret agreement among the counter-zionist groups and countries that the only sustained attacks against Israel come from geographic areas that it would be radioactive-fallout-suicide for Israel to nuke.
At least we still have hexbear at home.
Good thing America takes public health crises seriously.
He who controls the flow of money controls what people are exposed to.
The golden rule: whoever has the gold makes the rules.
The zionists are high on their own supply of Six-Day War nostalgia. In 1967 the Israeli government wasn’t fighting against forces with cheap high-precision ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, and drones in mass quantities.
The funny thing is that he kinda-sorta already has in “Apollo 13”. The Apollo CSM was built by North American Aviation, later named North American Rockwell after a merger. They changed their name to Rockwell International in 1973, then sold their space division to Boeing in 1996.
Rockwell also built the space shuttle. So Rockwell also has the dubious distinction of having built every American crew vehicle that killed its crew.
I’m certain that I have no idea.
A good starter printer is the Ender-3 V3 SE. It’s reasonably fast and reliable for the price. It comes pre-assembled unlike some earlier Ender-3 models which are more DIY. I’ve had one for about 6 months and I’m very happy with it.
In addition to a printer, you’ll want good slicer software. It’s hard to go wrong with Cura. It’s free software under the LGPL v3, source code available here. It supports a ridiculous number of printers, and it incredibly customizable. It’s also very fast. I regularly run it on a budget years-old laptop with onboard Intel graphics and 8GB RAM and it still works perfectly. A lot of the slicer software that comes direct from printer manufacturers is either some weird homegrown thing with poor performance and poor customization, or it’s just Cura with proprietary bits on top. Ignore it all and go straight to original Cura.
To get started in 3D modelling, get a free account at Tinkercad. It’s a proprietary web thing from the bloodsuckers at Autodesk, but it’s actually legitimately good. It’s easy to export the right kind of file that Cura needs.
dark side of Moon
Serious answer: a Roger Corman biopic. Made on a Roger Corman budget, by Roger Corman’s longest-term friends and colleagues. A love letter to his work in the spirt of his work.
Joke answer: a G-rated Peter North biopic.
The Empire will never, ever forgive him for how he and his colleagues helped destroy the Iraq and Afghanistan war narratives.
There’s actually an open question on that. China’s Shenzhou spacecraft was heavily based on Soyuz. But there’s never been clear communication from the CNSA that the Shenzhou uses a standard Soyuz-style APAS docking system or if they modified it. It may not even be possible to dock Shenzhou to the ISS at all.
This lack of public information is pretty common unfortunately for those of us interested in spaceflight. It’s not sinophobic to state that the CNSA is incredibly tight-lipped on specifications. They’re very public with scientific research results relating to spaceflight, but almost never give the technical details on how they accomplish that research.
My bet is on NASA making a change to the Crew-9 flight in august, either to add physical seats or only send two astronauts up instead of the planned four. Adding new seats is theoretically possible as the Crew Dragon structure was originally designed to accommodate 7. But it may require modifications that might not be possible to complete before the flight. I think it more likely that NASA only sends up two astronauts. NASA doesn’t like emergency design changes.
I will eat my hat before Bill Nelson would request a Soyuz from Russia. That is going to be his absolute last resort. Nelson is going to be under extreme pressure from the White House to make NASA’s response a “made in the USA” solution.
My attitude towards American presidential politics, being both a non-American who can’t vote and as someone who sees both parties as capital’s servants, is that the only value of an American presidential election is entertainment. I want to see an election play out like a good episode of Archer - just all kinds of crazy shit that makes people lose their minds and do even crazier shit. I want an election like a John Waters movie. I want an election like a Joseph Heller novel. I want an election that wallows in the depths of sleaze that would make Charles Bukowski say “hey, let’s tone it down!” I want an election so lurid that it makes a Traci Lords biopic look like A Charlie Brown Christmas. I want an election so depraved that Kevin Spacey pops his head up to say in sincere horror “jesus christ, what the fuck?”
And having the fucking Teamsters president doing a speech to Trump’s base is definitely in that category. I totally approve.
The bank accounts that never have savings because young British adults are paid poverty wages as the norm, and the drivers licenses for cars they can’t afford to buy and maintain?
Jimmy Dore
I’ve never been sure if he was always a secret grifter from the start, or if his brain just broke at some point.
Get audio of your dad saying that. When he’s no longer able to take care of himself and whines to you on the phone about guilting you into helping him, play it back for him.
I really, really hate doing “boomer generalization”. No generational war, no war but the class war. There’s plenty of working-class boomers out there who have been fucked over just as bad as the rest of society.
But I think it’s pretty clear by now that boomers in decision-making roles have generally put zero thought into succession planning. Both on an individual basis, and on a society-wide basis. No training of their own replacements, no thought given to demographic trends that would result from their decisions, just total denial of their own mortality.
Don’t worry about it. Those of us who have english as a first language couldn’t understand him either.