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UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldto
World News@lemmy.world•Trump fires Kristi Noem as homeland security secretaryEnglish
12·8 hours agoOut of curiosity, how do you mean?
The correct way to fire her would be out of a cannon.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldto
World News@lemmy.world•Trump fires Kristi Noem as homeland security secretaryEnglish
121·9 hours agoUnfortunately, there’s a correct way to remove Kristi Noem from office and this ain’t it.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldto
Not The Onion@lemmy.world•Fox News used footage of a Ukrainian interceptor drone in a segment about the “high-tech arsenal of the United States.”English
4·9 hours agowhere they spoke about the “high-tech arsenal of the United States” during the operation in Iran, they used video of the Ukrainian interceptor drone STING from the manufacturer “Wild Hornets”.
Was genuinely skeptical of this being a pure Ukrainian invention, given how much tech has been crossing the border from the NATO states. But… fuck me, I can’t find anything to suggest this isn’t 100% home grown. I’m sure if you got your hands on the tech specs, you’d find some kind of cross-over (not like Ukrainians invented VR googles or remote telemetry and I wouldn’t be the least bit surprised if folks outside Ukraine were involved in the design). Past that…
I do wonder how secure this technology is, if its something you can gin up with a 3D printer. Like, are there Sting specs out in the wild at this point? Or is this something they keep under lock and key?
That’s the one.
“For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.”
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldto
World News@lemmy.world•Iran calls for ‘Trump’s blood,’ warning US will ‘bitterly regret’ sinking warshipEnglish
25·11 hours agoWe killed a whole lot of school girls in Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Iraq as well. Didn’t get the same kind of coverage, because the executive branch (and the public) were more disciplined in messaging.
But I think a lot of warfare is, at the end of the day, a libidinal need to “mow the grass” as the genocidal IDF leadership put it. Kill your enemies. Kill their families. Kill their kids. Depopulate territory of opposition.
Do I think dropping big explosives from the air works toward that end? Absolutely.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldto
News@lemmy.world•US judge orders refunds for more than $130bn in illegal Trump tariffsEnglish
12·11 hours agoYou’ll need Congress to earmark the refund. Not bullish on this, given who is currently in charge.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldto
Not The Onion@lemmy.world•White House Says We Had to Bomb Iran Because Trump Had a “Feeling”English
3·12 hours agoOoo! Ooo!
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World News@lemmy.world•Iran calls for ‘Trump’s blood,’ warning US will ‘bitterly regret’ sinking warshipEnglish
14·12 hours agoYou think dropping big explosives from the air is the only form of warfare? How did that work out for you in Vietnam?
Killed a whole lot of people
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•Lenovo’s New ThinkPads Score 10/10 for Repairability— Repair goes mega mainstream with the launch of Lenovo's new T-series laptopsEnglish
2·14 hours agoIt is a bigger deal in business settings, where one laptop can see multiple hands and you’ve got a team dedicated to repair.
Not typically an issue for the individual user, but increasingly an issue for a team of users as the size of the team grows
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldto
World News@lemmy.world•Iran calls for ‘Trump’s blood,’ warning US will ‘bitterly regret’ sinking warshipEnglish
819·15 hours agoIran loves to issue empty threats.
They’ve been crippled. Their ability to project artillery outside their borders is receding with every passing day. As soon as the US/Israel offer them a seat at the bargaining table, they’ll come rushing back just like they have every other time the US/Israel has pushed their shit in.
If you love getting rug-pulled, go ahead and root for Iran.
If you want to cheer for the team with the kind of blood-lust necessary to obliterate a civilization, you’d be better off cheering for the US and Israel.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldto
Memes@lemmy.ml•I didn't join the revolution to readEnglish
0·16 hours agoYou’re going to trigger so many libs with this link.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldto
Memes@lemmy.ml•I didn't join the revolution to readEnglish
0·16 hours agoMy motto: Rhetorically cocks gun
ICE Officer: Actually cocks gun
:-/
So many keyboard commandos. Vanishingly few actual leftist militants.
Reminds me of the old (apocryphal) story of Stalin, FDR, and Churchill debating what to do with the Nazi officers’ corps after their defeat.
"The German General Staff, [Stalin] said, must be liquidated. The whole force of Hitler’s mighty armies depended upon about 50,000 officers and technicians. If these were rounded up and shot at the end of the war, German military strength would be extirpated.” When Churchill angrily declared he would be no party to such mass retribution, the President quipped that he would act as mediator, and suggested the compromise of shooting only 49,000. In heat, Churchill left the room. Stalin himself fetched him back, assuring him it was all a jest.
The tendency to treat enemy soldiers as honorable adversaries while foreign civilians are resources to be exploited or speed bumps to be flattened is extremely fascist.
What separates Hitler and Hegseth isn’t their army’s treatment of survivors of a military operation, but their view of their targets as military or civilian. Hegseth knows he’s targeting civilians and treats them just like a German military commander would treat other civilians.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•Nearly Half of Europeans Want X Banned if it Continues to Break the LawEnglish
1·16 hours agoUnfortunately, the other half of the people who don’t want it banned have all the political capital.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldto
News@lemmy.world•James Talarico wins Democratic primary for US Senate in TexasEnglish
2·16 hours agoThat’s really bad.
It’s not great. But you’re going to find it hard to locate a politician without this kind of relationship, because anyone who doesn’t get their beak wet.
Especially if that ghoul Addleson is involved
The Addlesons spread around a ton of money, especially at the state level.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldto
News@lemmy.world•James Talarico wins Democratic primary for US Senate in TexasEnglish
7·1 day agowhy would taking casino money be a problem
Cause the casino was Miriam Adelson’s, and she’s one of Trump’s biggest backers.















I’ve seen plenty of data points to suggest the IDF is running America and this is one of them