That’s a good point. The gestapo didn’t have large numbers either did they?
People in America don’t really know the difference, but we do learn about the Storm Troopers/Brownshirts, and the SS. The Gestapo was kind of lumped in with the military and paramilitaries.
Edit: Thinking about it. We’re at the stage where feds are the SS. The Gestapo was pretty much absorbed into the SS.
Isn’t VMWare out of support anyway?
Not that I fault the users of it - a perpetual license is a perpetual licence and good luck with the C&D, but there are other options. Though I only know of OpenShift on RHEL.
Good. But I don’t agree with anyone I know that Florida “isn’t that bad.”
I don’t have a map of statistics where bad shit happens, but if I did, Florida would stand out.
It’s a fucking swamp. Humans aren’t meant for that environment. (Actually, I don’t know if humans ever naturally adjusted to swamps, it just seems like tons of horrible ways to die)
I gotta say man, I really don’t like you. You’ve been antagonistic this entire conversation, and now you’re pointing the finger at me for, well, what, exactly?
I enjoy airshows. I enjoy the absolute absurdness of military hardware. I look for joy in things that are absolutely dreadful. In case you haven’t noticed, we’re all plenty aware of how shit things are. If we all just agreed there was nothing worth fighting the fascists for, then why would this post even exist?
But now, you’ve distracted me from my original point. Flight hours are flight hours. Experience is experience. That has value. This military parade doesn’t.
Man that’s such a small detail I glossed over, that they can bar them from courthouses.
Hold on, you know that TOPGUN is in Nevada right?
And the Blue Angels are probably the best known propaganda wing.
You don’t train your force on the aircraft carriers, so that they don’t destroy the plane the first landing attempt. What are we even arguing about again?
Flight hours are flight hours. Experience is experience. They get to advertise and feel macho for a bit. I don’t like the propaganda machine anymore than anyone, but I do prefer it when the public gets at least entertainment out of it.
It’s not just the pilot. The take off crew, the landing, the comms, it’s still a mission.
I mean shit, based on the kind of training equipment Ive seen, the pilots being in the air is just a tiny part of the effort. Especially for naval aircraft. I would assume the same for air force, but they don’t typically land on boats.
Who probably is forced to watch and say “good job sir”.
What I’m hearing is that nothing would piss off these military personnel more than if a whole lot of citizens decided to show up and slow this parade to a standatill.
Have you never been to an airshow?
Extortion of law firms. What the fucking hell scared these businesses so much? Just stopping federal contracts with them?
And with that threat looming overhead, how do they not have the motivation to quietly resist? You want to talk about respecting the law and fighting back - that’s who needs to do it.
Except they bent the knee anyway. We know they’re just as complicit in the Regimes acts now.
And that’s just one issue.
Man when I think of living it up with wealth and power I think of Sal Maroni in The Dark Knight.
These guys don’t need a criminal underworld to have a cigar, dress in a tailored designer suit, get a drink and a couple of girls to pretend to like you while you drown your thoughts in excessively loud music and exotic dancers on stage.
I think these elite are afraid of what they are: flawed humans. They can’t get everything they demand, and they’d rather destroy humanity than admit they were wrong or made a mistake, or felt bad about something. So they have to pump the fascists up and make damn sure the people have someone other that just you to get angry about.
The oil industry cannot survive if EVs become too popular.
Gasoline is almost half of every barrel of oil, and completely covers the cost of the oil, especially when oil prices are low like it currently is.
Gasoline so vital to the oil industry that they spent billions on trying to find things that they can make from crude to get people reliant on, so as to have just that little bit more leverage if gas consumption is ever threatened.
In the rest of the world, it doesn’t matter as much. Public transportation, bike paths and walk ways are already a thing. Gas is much more expensive in those places already. America roadways were designed to consume gas, great amounts of it.
The EV is and has been their worst nightmare.
That and all the decisions and actions are being made by the Heritage Foundation.
Wait they were using an unpublished fork of Signal?
No - it’s research ethics. As in you get informed consent. It just involves the Internet.
If the research contains any sort of human behavior recorded, all participants must know ahead of it and agree to participate in it.
This is a blanket attempt to study human behavior without an IRB and not having to have any regulators or anyone other than tech bros involved.
I don’t remember that subreddit
I remember a meme, but not a whole subreddit
I guess when I gotta go I gotta go. Usually don’t spend long enough thinking about it because I will pee my self if I do.
Why taunt the judiciary? That seems like a losing strategy for everyone
I mean the VC-25 is basically a different plane built into the design of the 747.
Like the presidential motorcade, it’s basically reinforced to all hell so it can avoid attack. Even though it’s escorted, it needs those countermeasures.