Honestly I just like dirigibles so if they want to bash their heads against walls and build new ones I’ll be happy.

They were always vulnerable to torpedoes hell that’s one of the reasons why the old dreadnaught class was phased out. Regardless they still served their purpose during WW2 as a way to imperfectly fill the hole that modern destroyers now fill, also they were damned useful artillery platforms in the Pacific and during Korea.

Blimps and Zeplins were heavily limited by the tech of their time materials were heavy and hard to use for example I know damned well the blimps built here in SoCal used leather gaskets. It’s possible to compensate for some of the instability with more modern props and battery tech.

Also if shit keeps going how it is we may need a couple modernized designs due to resource shortages, hydrogen can be sourced locally jet fuel not so much.

Honestly the place my brain went is weirdly the old blimp carrier concept from the inter-war period. Like I wonder if it could be adapted to work with drones, maybe with modern materials and tech it could solve the core issues of it being weirdly uncontrollable and the planes breaking themselves and the blimp when trying to “land”.

I’m both impressed and disturbed.

George Santos is probably one of the least intimidating pieces of shit I know of. Threats without gravitas is nothing more than comedy.

Killing people for being gay is wrong. But people not knowing about an incident nearly thirty years ago in one of the least relevant states in the US has literally no bearing on people’s morality, just like how you not knowing about the cross burners in my home town has no frame of reference on your morality.

Is that a simplified enough explanation for ya? Because if it isn’t you’re either a troll, obtuse, or so lost in the sauce you’ve forgotten what geographic and temporal relevance is.

Dude I’m a history nerd and have a pretty solid grasp on random abscure shit and this was an unknown to me. I’m in California and my town was having crosses burned around the same time which is more directly relevance to me, some dude getting lynched a year before I was born in fucking Wyoming is so far outside my view you may as well bring up hate crimes in Vostoc Russia, the same thing applies to damned near everyone.

Fact of the matter is that it’s categorically impossible to know about every hate crime committed in the past 30 years, even folks who study this shit for a living would probably miss some things. You don’t need to know about every thrice damned obscure case to know the broad trends and issues.

Personally if I was gonna rip one of these apart I’d just drive into the mountains and rend it down in the back of my truck.

Could also be a hold over from WW1 or WW2 that caused the weird drunk litres thing, would not put it past some dude in logistics getting bitched at by the French and that situation spiraling into litre measurements being standardized for drinks.

Like even that aside technology is inherently malfunction prone, even if they were unhackable there’s always the chance something goes wrong. With a piece of paper the worst that can happen is that it gets destroyed and reduced to null.

This feels like a fetish.

As a Californian who’s only ever used paper ballots this confuses and disgusts me. I wish to do a march to the sea.

Personally I’m more of a romantic when it comes to these things. In an ideal world these profligates would be lashed to a whole damned field of crosses, but this world ain’t ideal so instead I wish death and pain upon them.

Acting like a high and mighty intellectual while being a man deeply associated with braindead health trends from the 2000s and 2010s is certainly a choice. Hope this dipshit gets ass cancer.

While being part of a network would help in the immediate I feel like the best they could do in the long term is start doing it independently. One of the biggest issues we have right now is how many sources of information are the old corrupted or corrupting media giants, if a bunch of the old guard reporters and journalists broke away and did their own thing that would help break the current status quo.

I’d also like to add that we should extend urinal barriers by about 5 inches out give or take depending on room size and if the urinals are recessed into the wall or not.

Agreed, just didn’t want to speculate all that much on back end shit that I can’t see. But yeah the match regardless of accuracy thing is almost certainly happening on statistics alone, I know damned well I’ve met folks with faces very similar to my own since I don’t facially differ all that much from the rest of the North American Scottish diaspora and that’s just from personal experience though funny enough I don’t get mistaken for other people because I am shorter than most other folks with similar faces to my own.

Personally I think that these tools are only as good as their user and also they aren’t nearly as capable as they want us to think they are, be it due to weird gaps in their coverage, insufficient photo or video resolution, or simply too much parsable days I think these surveillance networks have notable holes in them. That’s not even getting into how the software side of things may be insufficient, biased, or simply broken.

Given how ineffective the US economy is that may as well be a completely meaningless statement. I know damned well there are contracts out there that cost billions but the actual expense is only in the millions wages and whatnot included because the company is being bribed and bribing politicians in a corruption circle jerk.