Biden isn’t quite as bad as the soundbites make him seem, but he is slowing down (physically and mentally) in his old age and was just generally an extremely uninspiring candidate. Trump, if anything is worse than you portray. He’s way more senile than Biden, in addition to the blatant corruption, rulebreaking, childishness, and being horrifically and openly racist and sexist. He has literally quoted Hitler! No decent and reasonable person who is paying the slightest attention to what he says and does would think he is remotely qualified for any position of authority. The fact that he is polling roughly evenly with an extremely qualified and intelligent person like Kamala Harris is indeed an absolute clownshow.

That does seem to be the story of this war, doesn’t it? I bet all the major militaries are looking at stuff like this and investing in more drones for themselves, too.

Wait, fallout 4 didn’t do the ending slideshow? That’s an iconic part of the series! I’m so glad I stopped buying Bethesda games.

Unfortunately for the residents of Moscow, all Russian AA weapons are currently in Ukraine.

It seems that we have progressed to the “find out” stage. I wonder if this will have any measurable effect on Putin’s support, though. Russians seem like heavy sleepers.

This is NOT a purity spiral

Right, because that’s exactly what people who are not in a purity spiral say.

The YouTube channel Throttle House did a road trip with the cybertruck and they found that a lot of people actually were curious about it.

https://youtu.be/xNE-NyaYBcg?si=1CS2DxHsocEYc0b- (around 24:15)

For all it’s flaws, you can’t deny it looks different from all the other cars around, and most people aren’t online enough to have an opinion about Musk and his bullshit, so to them it’s just an interesting looking car.

Except that they love policies that only benefit rich people who don’t care about them.

It’s not hypocrisy when you understand that “waste” is conservative for “helps the poor and/or minorities”

As the article says, there are typically a few cases a year in the US. It’s actually endemic in the wild. No need to panic just from a case or two popping up.

No it isn’t. The Democrats haven’t had their convention yet.

What the fuck? Why would you do that!?

Both have the same ultimate cause, as well: politicians safe at home demanding immediate results no matter what it costs.

This is an important part of it. The other part is the fact that success in politics is very hard without money, and most rich people aren’t progressives.

I wonder what the actual condition of the Russian navy is at this point. I heard their ships were generally in poor condition even before the war (those reports of the Moskva’s air defense being crippled before it left port, for example), and now they’re losing so many trained crew. Last I heard their shipyards were roughly keeping pace with losses in terms of tonnage but you can’t just herd conscripts on a ship and expect it to function at all.

“IDF said”

“I don’t want them to advertise,” Musk said at the New York Times DealBook Summit in New York. “If someone is going to blackmail me with advertising or money go fk yourself. Go. Fk. Yourself,” he said.

Some people think being wealthy proves that a person is smarter than everyone else or has some special skill that makes them more valuable to society. Then there’s the richest man in the world who thinks it’s a good idea to curse out his company’s primary source of revenue.

Depends on how you define “state”. IIRC, Marx drew a distinction between “state” and “government”, where the former is all the coercive institutions (cops, prisons, courts, etc). In this framework, you need a “government” to do the things you refer to, but participation in that government’s activities should be voluntary, without the threat of armed government agents showing up at your door if you don’t comply.

Three other competitors didn’t survive what were supposed to be non-lethal qualifier duels on the day before the finals. One player tragically died right after winning a duel to a random explosion from their Goblin Rocket Boots. Another Goblin malfunction killed a player who was an official spectator for the fights.

I am so glad I clicked through. This is great stuff.

Except Trump has been a disaster for the GOP. They have consistently underperformed compared to expectations since he was elected.