it was an F-16A, too. even the most updated F-16A Block 15 aircraft are still just… from another era of aircraft entirely. the f-16 may now be demonstrating itself to be the plateau of combat aircraft as it outcompetes more up to date jets and drone combat changes what aerial combat even is. the F-22 and F-35 are more advanced, to be sure, but i’m more and more questioning if that means anything, or more, if that’s not actually a major design flaw in more modern craft

probably don’t even post or interact with lemmy.ml. strip them of influence by simply disengaging from their squishy power

translation: never coming out

Simone Biles is america. her poverty and experience with race are our original sins. her story of survival in the face of sexual violence is half of our truth, and a truth half of us don’t take the time to hear. her refusal to conform to the narrative assigned to her is our work ethic and our belligerence in the face of the exploitation we all go through. her being visibly supporting the queer people in her community is huge. it gives us a morale boost, and it also is a powerful act of allyship in that she is beloved in places that voted red this past fall. she’s loathed in some of them for really gross reasons, but she has the ears of people who saw this and started the process of reconsidering

the confirmed number can only go up so much each day because israel keeps killing the counters

every redhat is devoid of substantiative thought or personality. they need a powerful individual to tell them what to do and what to think or they feel empty. the reason for this is that they are empty. they hated russia until russia helped their powerful individual win. then suddenly russia was good.

super easy, barely an inconvenience

if the blaster bolt is not observed, the ensign is both alive and dead

i just meant who’s their primary customer, really. advertisers aren’t fully divested of surveillance capitalism, obviously, but the fact remains there’s been a shift

and they’re running out of advertisers to sell that data to so they’re selling it to governments instead

well yeah. that’s the point

making it more obvious it was never about terrorism

is this how contacts get sucked in according to our former national security director?

i’m of two minds. one is “finally, after all these years of allegedly all straight crews”

the other is “the messaging is ‘put all the queers on the queer flight, they don’t belong’” and that thought came first and isn’t a positive thought

there were other options that didn’t obviously support a nazi. by the time they started shipping it was clear who this person was. you had other options from ford, rivian, and gm. you chose not to take them for some reason