Acting like they're stuck in a quagmire, when all they have to do is nothing.

I have such a visceral hatred of Palmer Lucky, he somehow feels way groser than the Reptilians. I think it's because he does seem to have a genuine passion for gadgets, but also such an uncaring American chauvinist worldview, that he is completely uncaring about the death, misery and mayhem that his gadgets are used for. He looks at an ominous weapon of death and just thinks "wow, neato!"

Bacon is an op. And not just the craze of the late 2000s, which was an astroturfed viral marketing campaign. Even the very notion of Bacon being a staple breakfast food was an ad campaign in the 1920s that caught fire.

He is truly the modern Cassandra.

And I just gotta specifically call out the General Aviation pilots and their bootlicker comments on reddit about how pilots are trained to navigate without GPS, and the pilot should have aborted the landing approach. And yeah, in retrospect the pilot should have... but this was a medevac flight, and so the pilot is in the position of potentially sacrificing the life of the patient they were flying out to pick up.

There's an obvious counter-factual: what if the military didn't jam GPS that night. Hell, it's not like the government didn't know their flight plan, how about just turning off the jammers for a couple of hours?? But the concept of a government working for the people on stuff like that is alien to Americans.

It falls into that "leftist conspiracy theory" bucket, where the facts of the case aren't really even in dispute. The GPS jamming was plainly a major contributing factor to the crash. The attitude seems to be "oh well, military exercises are just a fact of life, and civilians need to fucking watch out in case they get caught in the crossfire". It's a totally analogous situation to the 2025 Potomac River mid-air collision - why the fuck does the US military just get to do whatever the fuck it wants to do, even if it obviously endangers people?

That's okay, we'll just move our cropland and cities north of Siberia.

Arg, that makes sense. I kinda wondered about the actual mechanics of how Israel could do so much spending, given that they are the population and economy of a mid-sized US state.

And it's not going away. I saw some commenters saying things along the lines of "oh, eventually they're gonna run out if they keep burning money like this". That misunderstands just how many resources the psychos control - even these insane spends represent a relatively modest investment. They own all the money, after all. The 2028 cycle is going to be a nuclear explosion of political spending.

Imagine if AI was suddenly banned

The olds mock the kids for self-censoring their speech. The kids correctly understand that they live in a police state panopticon and that certain kinds of speech are risky to type out.

This is unlocking memories of riding the school bus in the tropics. The school district was slowly upgrading the fleet to models that had A/C, and the first day riding on one of those on a sweltering September afternoon was like a revelation from God. Then late in the month, one of the old buses showed up, and we ended up riding that one for the rest of the semester. It's hard to put into words how resentful and discouraged everyone felt about that, it sucked so much more after we experienced what a bus ride with A/C felt like.