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The market is acting like these conflicts are the only thing preventing a glut. It's very different from the patterns I've seen all my life.

The targeting seems surgical. everything hit seems to be where the damage is multiplied many times over by it effect on other parts of the economy and the war effort. The defeat of russian air defense seems like a magic trick. how the fuck do they get those things that deep?

Putemkin Naval Review

Your spell checker knew we needed a new word to express the level Musk has achieved.

What would the forces from cross winds be like? Those blimps could be sideways to the train when the wind is blowing. I don't know what how much upward and sideways is enough to derail, but I know the wind on that much surface could be a lot.

Putin scented candles.

submersible killing machines of one kind or another

"Edsel’s steering-wheel-based Teletouch transmission system frequently malfunctioned and confused drivers – many attempting to honk the horn would end up reversing their car instead." I knew the Edsel was a flop but not this part. Literal LOL, so easy to imagine doing.

the complicit oligarch media, i.e. COMmies

A few seconds of that turbine whine set my teeth on edge. I wouldn't advocate a drone strike but I might understand it.

Aunt Maude wouldn't shut up about writing them a check.

He lost my vote for that, but I was young and naive back then. /s

The first novella is such a perfect piece of pulp SF a twelve year old could love it while being completely oblivious to larger themes. Although they help keep the book interesting as the decades pass.

Fancy!

surely he said "our late age of bronze" /s

How does Carney accomplish that?

What a dumb ass waste of money that would be, why count on powerless immigrants when MPs are for sale?

Oligarch control of the US media is what keeps the Trump regime alive when impeachment is possible.

I've never been a basketball fan but I have an opinion about that debate now /s

I would want my butler machine to be a butler machine that I think about as a machine. Wanting it to have a personality seems like a Wilson the soccer ball thing and I have never been that lonely.