Prisoners die in custody of completely preventable diseases daily in the US. The for profit jail and prison system has made it so that medical access amounts to nothing, unless you are bleeding out, you get Tylenol or nothing.

We didn’t lose a war with them, but the Barbary Pirates were giving the US trouble before we had a Navy… I also wouldn’t call the first war we had with them entirely successful, but we certainly didn’t lose it.

To be clear, the big 4 food suppliers I’m referring to supply restaurants and other commercial food companies, not grocery stores. Those four are why every damn restaurant in the US tastes the same. We legally aren’t allowed to buy from the farmer’s market or grocery stores as our normal supplier. If it is a one off thing then we can go to the grocer for some onions or whatever.

Maybe there’s a water pipe running under the floor?

There’s a reason, in the US, that few people make their own clothing, despite being the one good that we haven’t figured out a way to completely remove the human labor aspect of it.

https://youtu.be/4VJxJesgF8Y

TL:DW JoAnn’s Fabrics became a monopoly, and imploded due to Private Equity restructuring them. This means that fabric, and even raw fiber, is now harder to source. It also meant that even while JAF was in business, it was cheaper to buy premade clothing than make your own since sometime in the 1970s.

The same thing has happened with food suppliers, though the big 4 haven’t imploded, yet.

https://youtu.be/RRC_t84UXzI

Apparently Santa was originally an Elf. As in tiny, just like all the other elves. That’s why he uses the chimney, it’s big enough for him.

They didn’t have a choice. As FDR said, “The New Deal is the only option that America has to prevent socialism from taking root in the US for the next 100 years.” It was absolutely a threat to the GOP, but he knew it for the bandaid that it was.

The GOP didn’t listen, and have successfully torn the whole thing down in a mere 80 years, and democratic socialism looks pretty good to well over 70% of the US, they just won’t agree with that label. The policies they will.

If you can get me safely to .999 C, slow me down, and get me back to Earth at .999 C, sure. The entire trip for me would only be about two years, provided a consistent 1 G of acceleration. Just please make it so that reversing acceleration doesn’t completely screw me, so my spaceship doesn’t have to do a complicated flip a bit after the halfway point on each trip. I’m certain that wouldn’t be good for my stomach.

Beyond that, the sun has about 5 billion years before we might not be able to starlift it back to a “younger” state, so The Earth and Venus may not exist at all if we don’t get our asses in gear for sustainable intragalactic life in the next century or so.

It’s not just US aircraft. Most military aircraft have the ability to turn off their transponders. That’s kinda SOP when flying a mission.

The main difference with many US military aircraft is that they have a tiny radar cross sections, so ATC can’t “see” them, not just can’t “hear” them. That refuling plane should have shown on radar, transponder or not. That thing is literally about the size of three barns, not the nuclear physics kind, and literally can’t have much in the way of radar stealth the way the plane it was refueling probably had.

The other main difference here is that normally our joint chiefs, and secretary of defense war don’t have their head up their asses about OPSEC. Normally such an operation would have not come anywhere near civilian flight paths, but these assholes literally said that the troops should be “drawing fire.”

That’s a regressive way of thinking. Revenge doesn’t actually feel good once you are done, it feels wrong. Put them in a rehabilitative program so that they will learn why what they did was wrong, and how much harm they did to themselves and others.

He was able to do what he could do. Believe me when I say that there’s absolutely a wall that most people never hit when it comes to shooting a living being, human or not. Most people never hit that wall, because they never seek out the activities that would cause you to hit that wall. I couldn’t shoot my first deer. Shooting my first human was a bit easier, as I actually shot them, but still caused hesitation. I don’t know about the second human or second animal, and I hope I never find out. Unfortunately, with the way things are going, I suspect I will have to shoot more people to survive.

Derail Valley Simulator is actually quite chill, once you have an idea of how to handle your trains. I have almost $7,000,000 saved up to see how big of a boom I can cause without going into debt, or hurting my engines and caboose.

Whole lotta food for a medieval peasant. Probably a decent amount even for a tradesman or farm.

If we can convince him to take a bunch of Donnie’s Adderall, his liver might give out.

The nazis don’t realize they aren’t anonymous on Lemmy

That’s why I dropped pre-law. I realized I cared more about winning than the law, and didn’t want to end up, not where that dude is, but somewhere tangential.

They had them at Catholic school. I thought it was just the Catholics, but another comment indicates that the Lutherans might also do it. The Catholics LOVE their candles.

They’ll voluntarily weaken themselves, if there’s corruption to be had. The US is currently following that particular playbook, which causes me to wonder what’s currently being irreparably broken.

Good luck finding an actual Newsome supporter. I live in CA, and voted Newsome. The thing is, I only voted Newsome in the General. I don’t remember who I voted for in the primary, doesn’t matter. They didn’t win.

As far as I can tell, from talking with people, that’s how Newsome got all his votes. I’m sure someone out there actually likes him, but I’ve yet to meet them.

Same could be said for lying Todd Gloria, who ran on housing first policies, and just rounded up and jailed all the homeless people in San Diego