Just gonna pitch in here, but I’m no expert. I was reading people’s reactions when that TLD was introduced, and they raised concerns over the possibility that a bad actor could spoof an address that actually downloads a .zip file to your device when you click the link, even though you may assume it’s an address to a page. No idea what a hypothetical virus could do from a compressed environment, but thats what I remember reading.

Sorry to any experts if I’m muddying the waters with a dumb take!

Could have been the blowoff valve for the turbo! Or a shitty muffler delete on a nearby Infiniti

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Best shit I’ve seen all week.

Pun intended? But I agree. Something like this was inevitably going to happen.

I played the trumpet for several years and I love that instrument. It’s bad enough that the names coincide; please don’t make it worse 😭

Thanks for the info! I’m aware of JDAM from following the invasion of Ukraine, but I wasn’t aware of the whole arming process.

Now, I may be underestimating my ignorance, but that doesn’t look like JDAM to me. Seems a bit small. Also, the fact that the pilot suddenly looks toward the wing tells me that he was expecting it to shoot out in front, and only felt the mechanical release (or do they use small explosive bolts? I’m more versed in spaceflight so that’s my only other guess 😅) and saw no visual confirmation that it fired.

Edit, just saw your edit! It’s a gbu-12 I guess

Jokes aside, would this pose a threat other than the physical impact? I don’t know many specifics about aircraft and their ordnance, but would this missile be armed just before launch, or once it clears a safe minimum distance, as with RPGs?

I felt like I was alone in being frustrated at this trend. However I found a bit of relief to discover, through messing around in a Win98 virtual machine, that they were occasionally using the term “app” back then as well. Of course it wasn’t as ubiquitous as it is now, but whatever.

Also I thought I’d never see the Xbox kid meme again. What an unexpected throwback!

I agree with you both; it’s the most logical explanation. See also: cultures that don’t revere womens’ breasts (likely) since they’re never covered.

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I’m more of a butt/thighs/hips guy, myself.

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I try to use em dashes when I can, but I think they’re used wrong in the comment above (IIRC they’re not supposed to be surrounded by spaces, but I could be wrong). What tips me off is the unambiguously “LLM” narrative voice and structure (“let’s break it down”, followed by an ordered list). Not that a human can’t type that, but sometimes it seems like ChatGPT is incapable of spitting out words in any other structure.

Tbh I have no idea. I’ve only ever played single-player!

Let’s not forget SuperTuxKart!

That just means that those who care about humanity should never ever stop or ease the diplomatic pressure. Show him what it means to be an actual leader, not a despot.

Not to dogpile on you (I am a fellow grammar-enjoyer), but on either side of “god forbid” you used hyphens—with spaces—in the place of em dashes 🙂

I wish more people were as passionate about language as you seem to be.

Technically it was never released, but I was invited to a closed alpha (or beta?) for a game called Chroma, by Harmonix, the OG Guitar Hero people. It was a lot of fun and I’m still sad that it was canceled…

Reminds me of Mitch Hedberg’s banana joke.

No love for Bawls? When I was younger the best LAN parties had Bawls. I think they still make it; no idea if it tastes the same.