A leak that experts in the area have told the idiot in charge something that anyone outside the military has been saying this whole time? Oh no.

Time for another “no one could have seen this coming”. We definitely haven’t had any historical evidence of pushing operations into places for made up goals only to find out it becomes long and drawn out with limited or no success at all. Nope.

If he knew anything about business, he’d know this isn’t that simple or fast to do. If they were even willing.

Boy, he sure is trying to deflect attention a lot, isn’t he?

“Sick”

Even Trump admitted he can’t stand the sight of blood. Can’t imagine him under an arrow-laden shield laughing. He’d be the one looking up remarking that the sun is going dark.

xkcd 2347: Dependency, only in the worst possible way.

What if it evolved to eat other plastic and now all our current plastic starts literally molding?

Side plot point in Niven’s Ringworld/Protector series, only with superconductors.

But if you built it once, you can do it again. I would think the hole sizes would be the first failure.

The more I look at it (why am I looking at it), I think the duct tape is the weak point. Not because of the duct tape, but the constant flexing. It needs a brace to support against the water force, the cords aren’t doing anything at that point, unless they’re more rigid than they look.

I saw a cartoon decades ago of a men’s bathroom with a shattered urinal and a caped figure exiting.

I’ve seen the same question asked about Lex Luthor’s plot to sink California for a land monopoly in the first Superman movie. As others have said, the weapon yields in these movies aren’t nearly powerful enough to do more than register a small local quake, if that. Also, while the mantle (mainly lower part) is fluid in the sense that it moves, it is very dense, so liquid doesn’t always mean easier to move.

Sometimes I look at it and think, huh, that’s right? Then I look a bit more and it looks even more wrong. So I check it online, yep, it’s right.

Respect for that envelope, it’s doing some heavy lifting.

Housing was affordable and wages hadn’t fully flatlined, so a single income family could still possibly pay that mortgage, even pay extra against the rate, and support a family. Definitely a lot more than one single rate number, lots of things are broken.

Your own diatribe that has nothing to do with the context of either of our posts says a lot about society too. I’m done though, find someone else to rant against about nothing.

Oh, so trolling then. That makes more sense. No one could be that dumb.

Not sure where that came from, but tag me however you want. Might want to reread what I wrote that was agreeing with you and adding more ways people get funneled into service? Nothing I said was a promotion for joining anything. Also appreciate the subtle violence in the wish for me… wow.

Klinger’s problem was slow reaction. Had he acted before they initially saw him, maybe. My dad was drafted in Vietnam and always told me to go right up and deep kiss the guy taking names. Although I don’t think that would work as well now.

There’s the ones who like to shoot things, but don’t forget the c) it’s either join the military for pay or live in poverty or worse.

The interesting part of this is you can’t have good discussions on the different aspects because any leniency towards the broader parts of prejudging something that doesn’t exist yet means people will jump on you as supporting the current topic. And the danger later if and when such things develop into actual incidents is some level of Patriot Act where everyone says “we told you so” and approve blanket laws that supposedly take care of that problem, but also affect totally not connected things.

It’s been something talked about in the tech world for a long time, how slow government is to react to changes in technology, and the gap widens as things speed along. Meanwhile we still aren’t talking about things like AI safety and how to regress some of the damage done by how LLMs were developed ILLEGALLY. Rather than trying to be ahead of the curve (if that’s even possible at this point) the laws will be late and draconian to appease the loud crowds.

Yep. I get they’re following the policy they set up, which worked fine with rational countries, but they change other policies all the time, so why not here? Just keep it as Ontario, but with an asterisk, since he has a lot of asterisks by his name now.

I am old enough to remember when a simple savings account at the bank was 5% interest, no minimum balance. Now grabbing a high yield account of 3.5% is doing well for the average person, and requires a high balance to qualify for that “incredible” rate.