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Boeing didn't pull the trigger, but they certainly created the conditions that cost this man his life. Along with the lives of hundreds of others lost due to corporate ineptitude.

Yes, he did rebuild the economy--under a militarized industrial plan, which was explicitly against the terms of Versailles. Like, that was the express purpose of it! "Beclowned" is a great word though.

I fucking hate John Mulaney. I don't find him funny. That bit was even worse than the Melissa McCarthy bit.

Godzilla won an Oscar and that's perfect.

That is the most Alabama-looking-ass family I have ever seen.

Where have I seen this shape before.... Oh right! The Lada Niva!

I punched one in for UNCOMMITTED today here in Tennessee. That'll show ol' Genocide Joe what's what.

I'm going to be picking a Dem ballot (open primaries, yay!) and voting Uncommitted to express my displeasure at Biden's policy towards Israel. Then I'll pull the lever for him in November.

That makes sense too.

I think what you're missing here is that they ARE replacing them. 2023 saw three "batches" of Su-34s delivered to the Air Force. That's roughly 12, and those are from contracts signed back before the war started. They've signed contracts with the factory to produce more in 2024. So there doesn't appear to be a net loss of Fullbacks in the Russian Air Force. In the last three years there's been roughly 24-26 delivered.

Russia's air force has really always sucked at SEAD. So I'm not surprised here.

I really wonder how accurate these numbers are. But I imagine taking down two AWACS removed a huge amount of early warning coverage from the battlefield and this is the consequence.

Masterful gambit, President Putin. All you had to do was literally nothing and this could have been prevented.

He was, in fact, very checked IN. He had a history of being incredibly giving to people in need in his service work and he made statements before his protest that clearly articulated why he was doing this, knowing it was the most extreme form of protest against something he fundamentally and vehemently opposed. His statement prior to immolating himself was:

An active duty US soldier set himself on fire yesterday in front of the Israeli embassy as a protest against the genocide. He died of his injuries. While he was burning he yelled "Free Palestine." Police response involved one guy trying to put him out with a fire extinguisher and another guy pointing a gun at him yelling "get on the ground."

I hesitate to put it on the level of Andor, but it is compelling storytelling with good characters. It's still got dramatic moments but they play differently than dramatic moments in Andor. I highly recommend Bad Batch anyway. The comprehensiveness and interweaving of the Star Wars canon does make "catching up" more of a chore than it needs to be. But it's something that I do recommend people who are interested in the overall story to do eventually.

On my list too, but I got booted off the Disney+ that I was mooching, so I gotta find another plug.

Understand that I get Jon Stewart's role here: He's an entertainer and not a journalist. But I think framing this as a "isn't Tucker such a dope for being a shill to Russia" isn't what I want, despite this harkening back to when Jon Stewart dumped on Tucker so bad it got his CNN show cancelled. He took down Tucker point for point (cheap groceries/he spent half the weekly salary of a Russian, neat shopping carts, accepting Putin's framing of issues, "Hitler"/"of course.") which is good. But I just don't think Tucker is an important piece of the puzzle here. The real meat is the false reality the Russian propaganda has constructed around not just the war in Ukraine but the issue of NATO and their history at large. Stewart touched on it with respect to Russian nationalism becoming allies with the far right and many Republicans in the culture war. And there's a larger tie-in between that and the Russian meddling in the 2016 election. But that horse has been beaten to death by now. So, for what I wanted to see... I don't really know that I wanted to see it at all. I've seen others dump on Tucker for this plus all the other stuff he's done. I don't think this is anything new. And it certainly doesn't say anything new about the war or Putin's justification.

I didn't find that Daily Show segment worth anything. Even with it being aimed at Tucker, it was more just clowning on him for being a shill--which is something we knew already. I find that Jon Stewart has outlived his usefulness with respect to our political landscape.

At the end they say they delivered them to Pokrovsk. That's the next city over in Ukrainian held territory and it's where some friends of mine were from and lived up until the new invasion.

lol lmao

Well, outside of it being EXPLICITLY against the Outer Space Treaty, having a nuke parked in space makes for a real big challenge in maintaining the equipment and making sure it's in good working order. And recovering it/taking it out of service means you deorbit a satellite and then have to pick through the wreckage to find a nuke...

Space-based EMP would literally just be a nuke since EMPs don't really exist.

The president is making fun of you, idiot.