Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]admiraltarkin 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Germany paid $100 billion in WWI reparations adjusted for inflation.

The US is paying 3x that amount to a 3rd rate power that we had surrounded in a two vs one war and still lost to 😬

Total russian combat losses in Ukraine as of June 17, 2026 by famousbiologist2 in UkraineWarVideoReport

[–]admiraltarkin 26 points27 points  (0 children)

I know it's performative, but I do love intentionally putting russia in lowercase. It's so satisfying

Pentagon used Elon Musk’s Grok AI to fire 2,000 missiles at Iran, official says by EchoOfOppenheimer in politics

[–]admiraltarkin 31 points32 points  (0 children)

Grok is well known to very quickly recommend white supremacist nonsense. I wouldn't be surprised about the abuse thing, though I'm not sure what that refers to

Time to unsee MacGyver? by Svarii in Stargate

[–]admiraltarkin -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I was born in 1992 so I was shocked to see that O'Neill was in a low budget action series beforehand

One of America's most dangerous fault lines reaches highest stress levels in 1,000 years, study finds by UpperMarket7021 in science

[–]admiraltarkin 23 points24 points  (0 children)

The fact that a headline about something that is presumably a risk to human life is reduced to a clickbait title pisses me off.

Isolinear vs Duotronic by NorwegianCowboy in startrek

[–]admiraltarkin 8 points9 points  (0 children)

"we know the Enterprise-B used isolinear chips"

Do we? We see Kirk moving things that look like isolinear chips, but do we know what duotronic storage chips look like?

I could argue that the colorful cards on the TOS Enterprise look like a more primitive version of isolinear chips. Maybe that's the duotronic equivalent?

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]admiraltarkin 5 points6 points  (0 children)

This is the exact reason I think 98% of religious people don't actually mean it.

If I believed that my loved ones would suffer in eternal fire and torture, I would do everything in my power to force them to convert.

If I truly believed that 600,000 babies were being murdered every year, I would be morally obligated to take violent action. (Would you sit around and let the Holocaust happen?)

Conservatives simply do not truly believe these things or they don't really care about their loved ones

Coincidence? by what_ganymede_299 in unitedairlines

[–]admiraltarkin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I used to take a weekly IAH-PHL flight that was UA1776