You would have to admit to being wrong first which from your comments seems like something beyond your ability.

People are really not ready for the media landscape conversation because it has absolutely no easy answers. The first amendment means that well-funded misinformation systems have an absolute right to keep operating.

The imagined reasons for this war - Russian security concerns will still exist even if Russia is officially given the Ukrainian territories it currently occupies.

One day your Internet search history is going to traumatize a police officer.

Is commander in chief an active military position?

I think it’s specifically not a military position. The president being a civilian is how in theory the military must operate under civilian control.

We would have more sources if Israel didn’t keep killing journalists.

I’ll give you some good life advice, never give your loyalty to someone who ignores you.

We’re talking about voting, not loyalty.

Maybe you can give unlimited support to him, but I won’t help a bad person.

Of course you will. Choosing to throw away your vote is a choice nonetheless.

and staying quiet for the next 4 years

I doubt it lol

They exist in NA but definitely aren’t as popular. The Bosch evsk1617 kit is still the best value for a larger size (not palm) router kit.

Its also worth mentioning that adapters are available to convert between battery systems. If you’re on Milwaukee and want to buy a DeWalt palm router (which is superior IMO) then you can just get a converter to use it with a Milwaukee battery. You can keep the converter in the tool itself, and most tools don’t mind this.

The exception is Ryobi. Converters only exist one-way, since Ryobi still uses “stick” type batteries for low voltage stuff. The opposite converter could theoretically exist (say, to use a Ryobi battery with a DeWalt router) but it would be very large and bulky and so nobody really makes them.

There are plenty of stupid, ignorant people who still to this day say both parties are the same simply because they’re too stupid and ignorant to tell them apart.

Jesse what the fuck are you talking about.gif.jpg

A lot of people did this. The GPU market for gaming might have actually shrunk. You would think Nvidia would panic but due to AI chip demand their stock is at an ATH and no company changes course or reevaluates and what they’re doing when shareholders are lining up to suck their dicks, so…no end in sight. Meanwhile AMD doesn’t seem to want to even try to make a play for market share.

The fact that the only traction the Lincoln Project has gotten against Trump among the GOP is to point out that he smells bad just goes to show how strong his hold on the GOP is. But yeah rule 2 and such.

I think you’re misreading the dynamics. Elon will absolutely not stand up to trump. He’s a right-wing chud now, he needs Trump’s base who love that he’s sticking it to the woke libs because no one other than them like him anymore. He will ignore this.

Just I’m clear on this the plan is/was to dig a large diameter tunnel underground, between cities?

Yeah, that’s why we don’t have any thousands mile long tubes transporting dangerous substances.

None of those are vacuum tubes. This is nonsense.

What happens when someone shoots a gun at them?

They leak. Literally all the time. They keep working. This won’t.

I think it was a good thing to try.

Okay well you got there eventually.

When 96% of the population is vehemently for or against something, not even a totalitarian government can ignore it without consequences.

Imposing those consequences on the government will mean those citizens will stop getting their handouts from the government . They’re not going to risk it over this.

A very long evacuated tube hundreds or thousands of miles long - too long to ever be actively defended - is itself fundamentally untenable. There are US states where every “welcome to ___” sign is shot up with holes. You don’t think people will take potshots at this thing?

Even if you somehow made it armoured and immune to small arms (this would be the largest armoured thing ever constructed), it would never make any sense over cutting edge high speed rail that doesn’t require an evacuated tube.

This all comes straight from first principles. To change this, any number of fantastical technologies would need to be invented (maybe the tube can be made of vibranium?).

Or maybe you didn’t say anything at all .