I’m thinking heart failure in office, but I bet he goes through 2 or 3 donor hearts before he dies faster than they can get a new one in him.

Here is the correct response to people asking for empathy for Charlie Kirk.

https://www.newsweek.com/charlie-kirk-says-gun-deaths-worth-it-2nd-amendment-1793113

“I think empathy is a made up New Age term that does a lot of damage" -Charlie Kirk-

Picked a bad day to wear a white shirt.

“Is it the party that chose to run a platform on apathy and genocide that are to blame for losing the election?"

Who would you have rather voted for?

This kind of idiocy is why we have a literal genocide enabling rapist and (probable) pedophile in the whitehouse riding roughshod over the constitution while Congress and the Supreme Court packed full of his shitbird lackeys cheer him on from the sidelines.

Ah, so you wouldn’t recommend that someone buy one of these things as a daily driver? You only have the truck for doing truck stuff, right?

Yeah, because you’re in a big truck, and not a sensibly sized car getting pinched between a brodozer and a concrete barrier everyday.

Everyone I know uses them pretty consistently to tow.

Is even softer data than what I posted, and softer than the old survey you were complaining about.

There’s 2 F series trucks for every square mile of this country. Do you think they are all out there hauling loads and trailers, off roading and actualling being used for truck stuff, or do you think that the vast majority of them are single occupant highway battering rams built to make small men feel big and important?

Remember, 2 per square mile, and that just one series of trucks, from 1 manufacturer, going back just 10 years.

In the absence of hard statistics, I think a gut check on the sheer scale of trucks being sold in the US will suffice.

It’s easier more profitable to make a larger footprint the consumer buy a larger vehicle than a more efficient vehicle.

Minor fixes, spot on otherwise.

To be fair to Von Braun, he did have slaves build his rockets.

The problem is we are only paying for half the lifecycle of the product. Start charging disposal fees to companies for every plastic/non-recycleable bit, and your head will spin at how fast they can get us 90-100% repairable, recyclable, and re-useable products.

I think the author’s are being cautious about calling out someone’s appearance. It can be hard to determine if a plastic surgery did happen, and if it was purely cosmetic.

Like if you look at her now, she clearly has a difference nose (more noticeable in more recent photos), but writing “Kristi had a nose job to look more like Ivanka” lands the wrong way if you can’t prove that she actually had a nose job, and that it was for that reason. Imagine how bad your ass would get sued if she actually had a cyst or melanoma on her nose, and had to have it removed and then get reconstructive surgery?

Let’s not trivialize slavery by saying that everyone else was doing it.

As far as the deeper cuts go, it was about overt racism as well. Slavery in the US was justified by saying that the slaves were less than people (or even human) because they weren’t white. Slavery may have been abolished, but that justification is still strong if you go to the wrong parts of the US today.

“Just dental work and styling”

Hell yes.

Every year, we should take the richest person in the country and redistribute half their assets.

Also, if you use unrealized assets as collateral for a loan, you should be taxed on the value of those assets.

That and H is the 8th letter of the alphabet, so 88 means HH which means heil hitler.

No seriously, it is that dumb.

We need a corporate death penalty. If corporations are people, we should be be able to charge them like people. Well-Fargo scammed over a hundred million dollars from their customers. I see no reason why they can’t be in a corporate jail, where damaged parties are paid out first, then the customers, then the employees, then the executives, and if there is anything left, let the investors have it.

Same for Equifax, they lost literally everyone’s personal data after collecting and selling it without their consent. If I did something like that, I would get multiple life sentences. The company and its assets should be liquidated, and the money generated should be used to setup a Identify Theft taskforce proactively checks for identity theft on affected individuals and pays out 100% if they are damaged by Equifax’s actions.

We are talking about Starlink here, correct? Owned by Elon

No, we are talking about how hard of a target a satellite based network is vs a terrestrial fiber network. Starlink is being used purely as an example here, but is by no means a complete representation of all aspects of the technology.

That said, all satellite networks are subject to dying if their ground-stations are taken offline…

Yes, but they can route traffic between satellites and back down to working ground stations. Theoretically, one working ground station could keep the satellite network connected to the entire Internet. Hence why Starlink still works over Ukraine, and why it is such a big deal when Elon shuts it off.

Sure, that’s a fault of Elon though, not a fault of satellite networks.