SCOTUS has already blocked the ruling

It doesn’t. Politico, as usual, is publishing bullshit

It is unclear how such a proposal would work, and Sherrill’s transition team declined to elaborate.

What?

In fairness, we haven’t actually issued a Declaration of War since WW2. Everything since has been a policing action authorized under the bi-annual NDAA

It’s the Free Square

Good thing Mexico has those blue hedgehogs

Chinese/Russian which are obvious no

Say what you will about the MiG, they’re cheap.

Is this a contest to crash the most aircraft?

Because my man, the GOAT, John “New Plane” McCain would like to have a word.

There have been no confirmed downings of F-35’s.

Several “oops this plane just fell off the flight deck, oh well, shit happens” articles in recent memory. A great way to explain why the Navy is suddenly down a vehicle without having to explain to anyone in the general public what happened.

I wouldn’t lean on foreign propaganda any more than I would domestic propaganda.

Americans are putting these jets into service and a surprising number of them are failing.

Whether Iran/Yemen have successfully struck any of them or the Navy can’t get them on and off the flight deck reliably is almost a moot point. A downed plane is a downed plane.

the best way to deal with a bully is to tell them to fuck off

Works best when the bully isn’t stupid rich and surrounded by psychopath security guards.

A big reason why oil-rich oligarchies buy American military hardware is to avoid getting the heavy end of the “regime change” stick bounced off their heads.

USK

I sure do hope British politics doesn’t take a turn for the batshit insane over the next few years.

List of accidents and incidents involving the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II

At the price of $100M/jet you want to miss out on all this?

Why Drug Dealers Live With Their Moms

So the top 120 men on the Black Disciples’ pyramid were paid very well. But the pyramid they sat atop was gigantic. Using J. T.’s franchise as a yardstick – three officers and roughly 50 foot soldiers – there were about 5,300 other men working for those 120 bosses. Then there were the 20,000 unpaid rank-and-file members, many of whom wanted nothing more than a chance to become a foot soldier. And how well did that dream job pay? About $3.30 an hour.

A crack gang works pretty much like the standard capitalist enterprise: You have to be near the top of the pyramid to make a big wage. But selling crack is a lot more dangerous than most menial labor. Anyone who was a member of J. T.’s gang for the four years covered in the notebooks stood a 1-in-4 chance of being killed. That’s more than five times as deadly as being a timber cutter, which the Bureau of Labor Statistics calls the most dangerous job in the United States.

The one thing I have a problem with is this conclusion:

So if crack dealing is really the most dangerous job in America, and it pays less than minimum wage, why on Earth would anyone take such a job? Well, for the same reason a pretty Wisconsin farm girl moves to Hollywood. For the same reason that a high school quarterback wakes up at 5 a.m. to lift weights.

The assumption that people are just easy to hook on “Get Rich Quick” schemes is an easy and popular answer. But it belies a more depressing reality. I would argue that many of the people in this business are “unemployable” thanks to a combination of entrenched privatized segregation, criminal convictions from over-policing, and poor economic conditions in the immediate area. That gets us to OP’s headline. They aren’t doing this work because they want the job, they’re doing the work because they want any job.

Incidentally, one burgeoning jobs program in the modern American economy is… Paramilitary policing of low-income communities.

Not a coincidence that many of the folks at the top of the current state and national governments are, themselves, drugged out degenerates and mafia ringleaders in their own right. So we’re seeing the possibility of climbing out of poverty hedged by the same ladders being lowered into the scrum.

We are, quite literally, paying one half of the proletariat to kill the other.

Cause, sure, you can poke around with pointers and references in C++ but it can also be used just like any other OOP language

Fair. It is harder to break things in C++ than C. Although I’ve definitely created a few memory leaks.

I’ll admit I haven’t actively fucked with C++ in over a decade, but in my experience you’re not going to find the kind of native integration with - say - Azure or SQL that’s baked into more modern languages. You can work around this with libraries. But eventually you’re just emulating a higher level language.

It’s so surreal to see how the media treats relations between China and Taiwan (their second largest trading partner, with $290B in exports just last year on a $700B Taiwanese GDP). Over a third of their national economy is on civilian ships traveling across the Straight of Taiwan. Setting aside the obnoxious presentation of the article - making it very difficult to read and discuss - they’re effectively saying… what? Taiwan should strangle trade with its next door neighbor because China uses industrial freight ships to move military hardware and personal?

Meanwhile, the US maintains a suffocating embargo of Cuba, with the largest body of trade simply being resupply and transfer of troops between Florida and Guantanamo Bay military base - a location Cuba claims is illegally occupied, but the US refuses to divest from. I’ve never seen an American news journal report the torture prison as a possible means of infiltrating anti-Cuban rebels. I’ve never seen them suggest Cuban Exiles or their descendants preparing to reconquer the island. I’ve certainly never seen anyone suggest the US could do a rerun of The Bay of Pigs with Miami’s extensive fleet of civilian craft, despite this being central to Operation Northwoods and Operation Orsac.

What these articles always seem to breeze over is that China’s strategy towards Taiwan has historically been economic, not military. Chinese businesses have been buying up Taiwanese capital since 2014. Taiwanese businesses have been integrated into the Chinese export markets for even longer. FoxConn - the notorious manufacturing company for US and Japanese electronics - is one of Taiwan’s largest firms, but primarily employs Chinese workers in and around Hong Kong.

All the fearmongering around China as a military threat never seems to touch their economic sphere of influence. Perhaps that’s worth interrogating more thoroughly than the “flashlight under the chin” coverage of a few civilian transport ships.

Learn assembly and you can DIY your gender.

Feels a bit like being told to do brain surgery and getting handed a hatchet, especially in the modern era.

Like, its a great learning language precisely because it does force you to think about what’s actually under the hood of your objects and attributes. You actually have to learn what a pointer is. You actually have to think about memory usage and system states. Its like Bio 1 when they have you dissect a rat.

But without a ton of library support, you’re doing so much heavy lifting. And with a bunch of library support… why not just use C#?

Wait till you find out about Russian satellites and submarines.

Lasers, Radio Waves, Weather Balloons, Passenger Aircraft - its all an act of war!

War War War! Start the bombing immediately, Sir Kier! If you don’t, I’m going to vote for Reform and get Nigel Farage to do it!

This is a bit like when someone claims China has entered Taiwanese airspace, while neglecting to report that Taiwan claims airspace over mainland China.

Part of Taiwan’s air defense identification zone actually extends over the Chinese mainland, but Chinese flights are challenged by Taiwan only if they cross the median line – the halfway point between the island and the mainland above the Taiwan Strait.

Click-bait journalists love to print headlines that take advantage of their audience’s naive understanding of international law and gullibility when it comes to claims of foreign countries doing sinister things. In fairness to the Brits, anyone familiar with Russian media gets fed a similar deluge of “NATO is going to attack us at any moment!” scare pieces.

Great for ratcheting tension, driving up military recruitment, and galvenizing the public to hate anyone suspected of foreign origin or sympathies. Not particularly useful when informing the public of safety concerns.