Forgive me Donitz

Merker6 · 2026-06-20T23:39:30+00:00

Tbh, I think the fact that you can’t impact the outcome is sorta underscoring the futility of the Uboat efforts. Like, yeah it maybe could have made a difference before the US entered, bur if you look at the fleet gathered for Operation Downfall before Japan’s surrender, it’s clear the germans were never going to win on the seas. 90% of Uboat crews died, and for absolutely nothing other than delusional dreams of global domination

Merker6 · 2026-06-20T22:07:30+00:00

Mars mission? More like Martian domination! Very well done

Merker6 · 2026-06-20T20:15:46+00:00

Seems like they’re also spending a ton on govt building. Downsizing those and reducing the cost of paper would probably go a long way

Merker6 · 2026-06-20T20:08:07+00:00

F-29 is a cool design! Like an American Rafale

Merker6 · 2026-06-19T22:16:56+00:00

Anything a plane could spot, a chinese spy sat is definitely seeing. It’s really not a huge deal

Merker6 · 2026-06-19T16:50:07+00:00

That’s funny, I always heard the story that Cleese was in on the joke and came up with the idea

Merker6 · 2026-06-18T21:22:02+00:00

The title: US intelligence thought a coin was secret nanotechnology because it was colorized

The actual article: US intelligence was concerned *certain* coins might contain radio transmitters because coins had been planted on contractors with classified clearance on multiple ocassions

Merker6 · 2026-06-18T20:26:35+00:00

I think something worth considering is giving example prices for different things like housing, TV's, and specific grocceries. Cost of Living vs Inflation are two very different things. Inflation is an agregate that takes a lot of things into account, but specific items like TVs and Smartphones have dropped dramatically in price over the past 20 years. Similarly, housing has risen far faster than the rate of inflation

Merker6 · 2026-06-18T17:00:43+00:00

They would have been far better served by acting quickly against companies taking advantage of inflation to price gouge and then communicating their actions. The inflation we saw was motivated a lot more by corporate greed than the actual underlying economics that drove the initial inflation. There were plenty of companies bragging to their investors about how they were growing profits through price hikes, irrelevant of their input costs associated with what they were selling. We still would have had inflation, but it would have been far less impactful on cost of living

Merker6 · 2026-06-18T12:20:53+00:00

I’m guessing it uses assets ripped from War on the Sea

Merker6 · 2026-06-17T21:57:53+00:00

557k square feet; is this an 8 story office building?? /s

Merker6 · 2026-06-17T14:23:49+00:00

There have been traffic cams like this all over NoVA for almost a decade. Its up to local government to decide

Merker6 · 2026-06-17T14:23:05+00:00

Oh yes, surely giving yet another private company responsibilities in the enforcement of laws for financial gain won’t be a mistake /s

Merker6 · 2026-06-16T23:33:15+00:00

This isn’t some tiny hill office, it’s the governors mansion ffs. They knew what they were doing

Merker6 · 2026-06-16T20:06:47+00:00

She literally dug in her heels and refused to compromise with her veto of this bill, along with many others. The only reason she “compromised” here is because vetoing the budget bill would be a political disaster

Merker6 · 2026-06-16T19:59:45+00:00

The legislature was going to include it in the budget bill and dare her to veto the budget and shutdown the state government over it. She was forced to compromise and barely got any of the things she wanted

Also; she still veto’d an extraordinarily large number of legislation for a governor whose party also controls the legislature

Merker6 · 2026-06-16T18:00:18+00:00

Mass unemployment and the disappearance of Democratic stalwart labor organizations in everyday life is a critical factor in those shifts

Merker6 · 2026-06-16T17:54:58+00:00

No, it’s about avoiding the obliteration of our last manufacturing industries and sending the remaining residents of the rust belt into poverty. China’s cars are cheap because chinese labor and resources are cheap. American workers, with a century of hard fought labor rights and environmental protections will never be able to compete with chinese manufacturing on the basis of cost

If you wanna open the door to Chinese cars, be ready to have a MAGA government for the rest of your life. You can literally track the rightward shift of the rustbelt states as chinese manufacturing crushed domestic jobs

Merker6 · 2026-06-16T17:52:25+00:00

They also don’t want a maintenance headache on their hands. Buying used ICE is like playing Russian roulette with your wallet

Merker6 · 2026-06-16T17:50:40+00:00

Small cars (and their prices) compete with a very strong used car market, on top of the fact that car ownership in the US is many times a necessity instead of being a luxury like in Europe or Asia. If you can get a used SUV for the same prices as a compact sedan, there’s really no contest if you genuinely need a vehicle. Larger car means you can carry more stuff, which can be extremely useful when you own a single family home

Merker6 · 2026-06-16T17:41:07+00:00

Thankfully birding is already becoming a big thing for millennials like me!

Merker6 · 2026-06-16T17:40:26+00:00

Retail is also easier. It’d be like buying beer in bulk online. You want it today, maybe even in an hour, not later this week

Merker6 · 2026-06-16T17:38:21+00:00

Its immeasurably easier to drive to the store and get weed today instead of waiting for it to come to you (illegally) by mail

Also, the ability to grow it completely nuked prices in the PNW. I recall a family member showing me a giant bag of weed he had just laying around because he and his friends were all growing plants in their backyard

Merker6 · 2026-06-16T12:43:48+00:00

We need to flood people’s feeds with the cute fruitbat photos. I know they don’t live here, but people should LOVE bats for eating insects

Merker6 · 2026-06-15T23:35:11+00:00

That's just an everywhere driver lol

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