It’s asymmetric. The weapons you need to take out a swarm of drones are orders of magnitude more expensive (and complicated) than the drones.

So, any horde of such weapons cannot be replenished as quickly as the drones can.

Absolutely true.

It’s even more surprising when you realize that all you have to do to know the most common letters is just watch a single episode all the way to the end.

For the last puzzle they always start with “r, s, t, l, n, and e” revealed.

A lot of people fall when learning to curl. Remember that you’re still walking on extremely slippery ice.

Hopefully the muscle man is just muscle. Otherwise he risks injuring his knees by overstriding like that.

You’re giving transphobic bigots too much credit; no one reads a verse saying that eunuchs aren’t allowed in the temple and infers that it’s a sin to be trans.

They aren’t reading the Bible and then developing prejudices based on what it says; that’s not what’s happening here.

Instead, what they are doing is starting with the prejudices they already have and then fishing through the Bible trying to find anything that even remotely matches so they can twist it into a post-hoc justification.

In this specific case, that verse doesn’t justify their position in any way shape or form.

The only reason anyone would interpret that as condemnation of trans people is if they’re actively looking for excuses to condemn them.

First off, that verse is talking about eunuchs rather than trans people, which is actually a really important distinction.

Further, that verse doesn’t even say that being a eunuch is bad; it just says they’re not allowed to enter the temple. which, for what it’s worth, hasn’t even existed for thousands of years.

Moreover, it is immediately followed by a verse saying the same thing about anyone whose ancestors (up to 10 generations back) were illegitimate children.

So, you can’t interpret it as saying that it’s a sin to be trans unless you also interpret it as saying it’s a sin to have great-great-great grandparents who weren’t married.

You’re right that neither the Bible nor any other religious text is a legitimate reason to persecute people, but that’s not what’s going on here.

They aren’t motivated by what the Bible teaches, they’re motivated by bigotry and performing mental acrobatics to try to find anything in the Bible that they can somehow twist into an excuse for their bigotry.

The original Greek says “camel” (in Greek).

There’s no other translation for that word, but there apparently is a theory that maybe the original Greek was wrong and they meant to say “rope” which is spelled very similarly to “camel” in ancient Greek: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_of_a_needle#Christianity

That would be a very convenient theory if you were a rich man who wanted to hoard your wealth, but otherwise I don’t see any reason to assume the original Greek word was wrong.

I feel silly now for not realizing that was a stage name.

I straight up thought her actual name was “Whoopi”.

That was my thought exactly.

That guy is younger than me but looks old enough to be my dad.

I took a physics course at a community college over 20 years ago and one of the things that stood out to me was the professor telling us not to overthink or assign too much romanticism to the idea of black holes.

His message was basically “it just means the escape velocity is greater than the speed of light… if you plug the size and mass of the universe into the escape velocity formula, the result you get back is greater than the speed of light, so our entire universe is a black hole.”

If this was being discussed at a community college decades ago then I think the new discoveries aren’t as revelatory as they would at first appear to the general public.

It wasn’t being marketed and sold as a meme product. It was being marketed and sold as critical safety equipment.

On top of that, it was being sold during a pandemic when such equipment was being used continuously by large segments of the population.

It shouldn’t be surprising that large numbers of people bought it; the company selling it lied to those people to trick them into buying it.

The perfect material for Tesla’s new cyberboat

This is old. I’ve seen this image long ago… well before AI slop was a thing.

That was a mistake in my original post. I meant to say that you DON’T specify a political affiliation when you register.

Thanks for catching that, I edited the original post to fix it.

The bomb threats were real. I never said every item on the list was fake… it’s the list itself is B.S.

Mixing real voter suppression techniques along with easily debunked fake ones makes the real ones more likely to be dismissed.

That’s why I said these sorts of misinformation posts make it harder to fight back against voter suppression.

Texas doesn’t have registered Democrats because you don’t specify a party affiliation when you register to vote in Texas.

I’m not going to spot check the rest of the items, but this list is at least partially B.S. so the whole thing is suspect.

Yes, the Republicans cheat and voter suppression is the only thing that keeps them in power, but spreading misinformation about that voter suppression makes it harder to fight, not easier.

Translation: he posted incoherent nonsense and once anyone with half a brain looked at it they had to explain that it was completely impossible.

There’s no such thing as a “tariff” on intellectual property. Tariffs are a tax on bringing physical goods into the country.

There’s no physical good being brought through a port of entry for foreign made movies, so claiming to put a tariff on that just shows that you have no idea what tariffs are.

There’s also “Dracula Daily” which starts at the same time and is a great way to micro-dose the novel.

https://draculadaily.com/

Madame Web wasn’t actually bad.

It wasn’t good either, but also wasn’t bad.

That’s encouraging to hear.

Can you share any links about the strategy changes you think will help?

We can’t control the American voters so complaining about them doesn’t actually accomplish anything.

We can, however, change the Democratic party to better align with the voters.

That should be everyone’s focus.