Wow, I’d never considered you’d remember a ship that way, but of course you would.

Hmm, I only have a rough idea about my elementary school, come to think of it. I remember the field outside much better. Later schools are easy, though. Houses are all there, and relative’s houses. Certain stores and a church or two, as well.

I remember a radius around every place I’ve lived outside, but could only draw it geometrically where there’s been grid layouts. Otherwise it would be kinda abstract, like they did it in Rome:

Central Europe and Africa pictured, lol.

Yeah, not OP, but I’m well aware of how much it would suck. This should be plan Z. It’s still an important one, though.

Cynicism seems smart even when it’s not. That seems to be the way it works, and I think I read it’s been shown scientifically.

We just have to be at least as strong as the Taliban, if it comes to that.

That’s the one facet of detachment we already have well underway. The big debate right now is German-Norwegian vs. Korean subs. German self-propelled howitzers are also a shoe-in.

(Meanwhile, the big goal with trade is to get America down to just half of our business in a decade, and people seem to think that’s ambitious)

I doubt people are going to change, short of becoming cyborgs or genetically engineered or something. Things already have, though.

I mean, you can interpret them to justify pretty much anything.

This isn’t even a hard case. The Israelites massacre people of other religions, and Iran is at a slightly higher latitude than Isreal so you can shoehorn it into gog and magog.

It bet it would work in America, too. The military is popular, and the civilian federal government is not.

God has a tendency to want whatever the politically powerful people in whatever religion do, for some reason.

This is what Evangelicals actually believe.

Yeah, but the US and Israeli militaries in specific are well aware of how bad optics make a military campaign harder. They’re not those people.

It wouldn’t, and the powers attacking here know that. It’s something else.

Or whatever random Israeli asset gave a suggestion, and then they rubberstamped it.

Making shit up is a popular tactic to not get your blackmail file released or get paid or whatever.

[Can You Feel My Heart plays]

Fun fact, the dude is real and much older than he looks.

I have learned this joke is a really bad one to make in person. They don’t get it, and “I’m a hacker” or “I want your mom” are both suboptimal ways out.

I end up explaining things about Canada a lot. Sometimes other things too, so “plus”. It’s how I feel like I’m not just a shitposter.

It goes back far enough it didn’t sound like a streaming service, at the time.

Lord of the flies was a thinly-veiled allegory for how the world actually works. There’s no growup keeping it in check, we’re on our own, and we’re not great at it.

The many ways people try to make it not that. Like just lying to themselves. Or scapegoating some subset of humanity they’re not in for it (which happens equally across the political spectrum).

Well, there can be some redundancy, and some parts are harder to replace than others. Just going off of of what I know, I’d target a big pipe or the heating/cooling systems. A distillation tower or chemical reactor could be redirected around.

In another context they’re lawful execution and taxation. Actually, government in general is racketeering with better PR.

Most cops are pretty good about only affiliating with the government, out of possible users of force.