I’ve been saying for years, China still wants Yongmingcheng (vladivostok) back. Why fight every country in the pacific aside from North Korea when there’s more arable land and tremendous mineral wealth to the north, and the north will not be able to defend itself.

I’d love to see how well Russia does against a peer combatant.

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Uh, not exactly but that was an interesting 4:22 of music. Neat vocoder stuff.

TYVM!

Now SpaceX makes a new Starship truck that can go all the way AND be reused.

Not much of a spacex fan, but the fact that they were able to prove reusability on the falcon 9 and starship when the main players - ULA, Boeing, fuck, everyone said it was decades away IF EVER gets my attention. it illustrates how there are blind spots in all industries where people have to be shown what is possible because they’ll never believe it and that dogma can stifle innovation for ages when left unchallenged.

definitely culinary roulette - ‘fast food’ ya know?

the food would always have to be put in the machines fresh every day.

ate from these on a few occasions as a kid, and no, they were not fresh every day. I remember my mom sniffing egg salad sandwiches and throwing half the ones they purchased in the trash at a rest stop. also had them at rest stops in the UK in the late 80s as well. it was not great.

64gb of ram. 32 cores.

if you keep many chonky applications open it’s lovely.

unsimulated

seems like an unnecessarily extra word. you could just say 'included live piercing, sexual intercourse and blah blah…

ideologically motivated hamsters too. they fucking HATE spez.

I am starting to think some people don’t actually have principles, and don’t understand words too good neither.

well put.

it makes me wonder about a LOT of libertarians, normally I thought they’d recoil from trump but some seem strangely comfortable with him.

makes me wonder about their principles.

If Trump dies, they get Vance (a true believer…unlike Trump who just wants the power to stay out of prison) at the top of the ticket.

And we get some kind of Peter Theil libertarian theocracy.

Vance’s flexibility to bend in any direction at any time is just… he makes lindsey graham look principled.

depressingly plausible.

yep. it’s free and easy, and becoming the default. :|

I liked root beer barrels but haven’t seen them in decades.

they taste like disappointment.

don’t worry, this is to make up for the last 4 years of crunch without bonuses, should restore morale completely and lead to higher productivity in the next quarter!

I have yet to see any video game cause a riot.

an even better question is why didn’t Bibi heed any of the warnings about the imminent operation.