Had a world history textbook whose opening sentences are ingrained in my brain.
"The Chinese Civilization emerged on the banks of the Yangzhi River in 3000 BC. In 1840 AD, the British arrived."
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Apparently the defects on the Challenger - particularly the faulty O-ring - were well-established. They absolutely knew they were putting up a faulty shuttle and didn't care.
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I've wanted to paint my nails and think that kilts should make a comeback
This is what They took from us.
Reject Modernity. Return to Goth Tradition
I am the most cis het middle aged white man you will ever meet.
Still have nothing but love and respect for my Trans Comrades.
Broke: Software
Woke: Software as a Service
Bespoke: Software as a Telemarketing Service
That's news to me.
They might be playing both ends.
And then we demolished the MB in Egypt, because it had the temerity to be slightly more left-leaning than the last military dictatorship. And now we're mopping up what's left of them in Gaza.
This is a guy who claimed he'd seen the headless corpses of 40 Israeli babies, in the wake of the Oct 7th attacks.
Tomahawks tend to fly a bit faster and have a more focused payload.
Doing a Flying Timothy McVeigh certainly creates a large explosion. I have to question whether this strike had a meaningful impact on drone production, any more than McVeigh's strike had a meaningful impact on the FBI's ability to operate in the US Southwest. A ballistic missile would have had the same penetration and done far more damage.
Or don't. Cessnas are reasonably easy to target and shoot down, from a missile defense perspective. If this is all the Ukrainians have left, just buy some Iron Dome tech from Israel and maybe take a unilateral step towards ending this nightmare.
Was genuinely unclear whether that first post was based or cringe, before I got to the bit about Russian Propaganda.