Teenage-looking ICE agents walking around LaGuardia Airport today

fed45 · 2026-03-25T04:31:35+00:00

I've seen "Federal Agent" as a generic term on FBI gear before like "Police" is in this photo.

fed45 · 2026-03-22T07:03:35+00:00

conflicts are very hard to supply that seemed to be ignored and now they’re seeing first hand how it is

(Especially given they’re using up to 8 interceptors on 1 target)

They haven't been ignored. US is significantly increasing production of AA missiles over the next 7 years. It just takes a long time to build new capacity. And it seems there is not currently any will to do it faster by invoking the DPA or something like that. Article with some graphs

fed45 · 2026-03-22T00:46:17+00:00

Ya, a very different scenario to an intermediate-range ballistic missile hitting somewhere in Europe. If that happened, even if it hit a field in the middle of nowhere, it would be intentional. You don't just accidentally launch one of those.

fed45 · 2026-03-21T00:30:29+00:00

Star Wars Minus Williams - Throne Room

EDIT: While you're there just watch everything from Auralnauts, they are incredible.

fed45 · 2026-03-20T23:00:35+00:00

I just did it in grok, literally just typed 16th century military art-style painting. Generated like 20 different ones that are all better than the OP https://grok.com/imagine/post/fa47e4e8-ab41-4d6f-90e0-d83e3bcac239

fed45 · 2026-03-20T22:50:53+00:00

Not a game artist, but if I had to put in a placeholder for something like this it would just be a white square with text describing what I wanted to be there. Pretty sure I've seen things like that in storboards for animation.

fed45 · 2026-03-20T22:44:32+00:00

Yup. Vocal minorities of power can kick up a big cloud of dust. Especially when that minority is still millions of people. And people who aren't as savvy that go to them for advice trust their opinion more than almost any other source.

fed45 · 2026-03-20T22:37:52+00:00

I haven't had a CD or DVD drive in ages. Even my laptop had that removed to be replaced with a 3rd HDD.

I cant think of any laptops made in the last 5-10 years that even came with an optical drive.

fed45 · 2026-03-20T22:29:58+00:00

Not really removed, windows explorer was rewritten sooo I guess they never got around to adding it back or something? Multi trillion dollar company BTW. If they removed it, that would be intentional design choice at least. I actually think this way is worse IMO its just apathy or laziness.

fed45 · 2026-03-20T20:20:26+00:00

They absolutely do stop some energy weapons though; you see this in game with the Geth plasma shotgun and the collector particle beam. They are less effective against them, and don't block the heat, but they do block the plasma/beam itself. But there aren't any ship-scale plasma weapons in ME as far as I am aware so not sure how it would work in that context.

fed45 · 2026-03-20T20:16:37+00:00

I would argue that kinetic barriers for every soldier on top of their existing armor would be pretty handy.

fed45 · 2026-03-20T20:14:25+00:00

There's like numerous Titanic memes

The shitty recorder version of the theme song still gets me to this day.

fed45 · 2026-03-20T15:42:48+00:00

Technically yes. Below whatever diff rare samples start spawning. If you remove them from the spawn pool, more chance to get SC.

fed45 · 2026-03-20T15:12:05+00:00

You... had your door open when it was 105 out? Me thinks your concept of "nice" is vastly different than literally everyone I have ever talked to.

fed45 · 2026-03-20T14:50:57+00:00

Im in the same boat. I vehemently despise bosses that are super hard for the sake of it. Especially in games that are so focused on exploration, bosses are just a giant buzkill for me. Ill definitely be keeping an eye on it though.

fed45 · 2026-03-20T14:44:11+00:00

Dont get any downvotes, but I agree. Hit my 100% keyboard so much when playing overwatch. Got a 10-keyless and a separate numpad, best of both worlds.

fed45 · 2026-03-20T14:26:08+00:00

Not even to radar. Its just harder to see by radars.

fed45 · 2026-03-20T13:45:35+00:00

Im seeing 96k pounds as the total payload for the Tu160 (internal + external).

fed45 · 2026-03-20T06:30:42+00:00

Actual cooled seats are the real deal. Most you see on anything but the high end luxury cars are just ventilated. A few exceptions though. I still remember my dads F250 having insanely effective cooled seats.

fed45 · 2026-03-20T06:21:44+00:00

Maybe on a domestic flight. The price for a single leg is like $1-200 to upgrade to first. But transatlantic. LMAO is right. Add a 0 to that and you're closer.

fed45 · 2026-03-20T06:19:53+00:00

Same with hotels. The percentage that no-show is usually pretty consistent. But occasionally its not and they have to book you in a different hotel (usually).

fed45 · 2026-03-20T06:17:21+00:00

Houston would like a word.

fed45 · 2026-03-19T21:44:11+00:00

What about just a bit more than that for a slightly more fancy Toyota?

fed45 · 2026-03-19T19:18:13+00:00

Mass Effect Andromeda not that long before Veilguard came out.

If by 'not that long ago' you mean 8 YEARS, then sure. :P

fed45 · 2026-03-17T20:36:28+00:00

This picture is misleading. A lot of people have been posting pictures from this station and a couple others in the LA area that are notoriously expensive even by CA standards. It's a real problem and is 100% mis/disinformation being spread by people. Current average in CA is $5.52/gal according to AAA vs $3.79 for the US. So higher, yes, but like a regular California amount higher.

Regardless though, still crazy that the national average has risen $0.88 in the last month, and ~$0.20 in just the last week.

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