That sounds wonderful! I Joel your vacation goes well! : )

Did lose a portion of his ear, but it probably was fast enough that adrenaline took over.

Will have to see what his follow up response is.

My bad, thanks for the info. I was watching a low quality broadcast, thought him going down was him collapsing.

One of the agents did hand his hat back to him though judging from the close up shots. I guess he likes his hat.

He does not look good. His head lurched forward and his hat flew off when he got hit.

Could you mind cutting it back with your posts and questions? Maybe once a week for a question that’s been bugging you and that you couldn’t find on Google?

You just sound like a chatbot when you ask questions that would be answered by reading the first few paragraphs of any of Marx’s writing.

(1924-1965) USSR Amazing, China (Not enough data/ Civil War)

(1965-1980) USSR Good, China facing growing pains

(1980-1995) USSR Atrocious, China decent and rapidly improving

(1995-2010) Ex-USSR Disaster, China good but many problems remain

(2010-Present) Ex-USSR Horrific, China Amazing

Did I get the general comparison right?

Weirdo

I bet you are.

Are you alright?

I told you, the Crimean Beach Bombing and disrupting the Istanbul Accords. Can you read? It’s not that hard to know which two points I was referring too. All I said was that both of their crimes were identical save two of them that were hyper specific to Biden’s presidency.

Launching missiles at a civilian beach in Crimea, murdering and hospitalizing Russian civilians, including children.

Blocking the Istanbul peace agreement, which Ukraine was going to accept and would have prevented the conflict before it began.

Why the hell are you so tilted?

Mostly the specific crimes that happened during the Ukraine War, such as the beach bombing and Istanbul Accords. All the others could be easily applied to both Trump and Biden.

They would have acted identical to one another in each one of these points though. They are the two sides of the American State Department coin.

Trump did each and every one of the things you listed save maybe two.

Both of these pieces of shit are going to hell.

Wow, it’s very obvious that you are joking.

Could you explain the joke maybe? I think you may have forgotten the part that’s supposed to make people laugh. I genuinely don’t see how what you said is supposed to be a joke.

Don’t worry though buddy. I’m sure it’s all in good fun.

And it isn’t incentivizing parents to push their children to work at increasingly younger ages? Even at the expense of school, social life, and development? Especially the poorest families?

You are reinventing the entire problem that created child labour to begin with.

Incentivizing the exploitation of children seems like a wonderful way to kill an obscene amount of children.

Does the effect wear off if they leave your radius? Or is the effect permanent?

If it’s permanent, then I would spend all the money I have traveling to massive concerts, sports stadiums, and events. Then spend the entire time running around.

Maybe giving trump some communist powers wouldn’t be so bad?

I don’t care if he became the worlds most devout Marxist-Leninist-Maoist; he is a child rapist.

That makes a lot of sense, thanks for the clarification!

I did want to say that when I meant “secure”, I didn’t mean it was impregnable or somehow superior to modern protections, but secure in the sense that on a closed system with minimal points of entry and no internet access; a system like Windows 95 at a nuclear plant has its obsolescence work to its advantage. Similar to how Russia, the US, and China all still operate their nuclear triad on analog technology and haven’t updated their technology since the late 50s.

There also is the problem of programs being specially designed and tailor made to an OS with virtually no way to update them unless the entire program is designed again from the ground up. Something that can take tens of millions of dollars and months of time, not to mention the difficulty of the switch over process.

So it essentially becomes an “If it’s not broken, why fix it situation”.

The 737 MAX is an abysmal failure in that regard though. It should have never been allowed to fly in the condition that it was launched.

It’s anecdotal but me and my partner haven’t had much trouble with TSA in major cities. They’re either genuinely to busy to care, or you have to act like an asshole and piss them off to have a problem happen. But if you’re flying from a major Canadian city to someplace like LAX, no TSA agent is going to bother you give you the time of day.

I would avoid smaller airports with less traffic though. You might run into some bored hicks and that is a recipe for disaster.

The British Empire played the long game with the Revolutionary War.

The 747 was designed and entered production in 1968, so you don’t really have a choice in changing how it’s electronics work. Unless you gut the entire plane, but you can’t just recall all 747 from their airlines, so at that point it would just be more economical to design a new plane. Which Boeing has hilariously tried and failed at.

Isn’t that pretty normal? It’s the same thing with almost all modern nuclear plants running on Windows 95, hospitals running on Windows Vista, and financial firms using Excel 2012; older systems are more stable and secure, with the programs that they support being supported and designed only for that old OS. Plus what critical updates are there really to add to a basic flight computer? I feel like that’s one of the things you want to be as simple as possible if anything.

But beyond those things, profit motive is obviously the best way to organize productive forces. Definitely…

That sucks. Most of the university libraries I’ve been to have been pretty good at collecting a bunch of the more unheard of pamphlets and socialist works.

Granted, I was in the more left leaning areas of the United States.