Your car would receive a lot more damage, but the driver in the older car would be much more hurt than you.

Also, modern vehicles are far more reliable and efficient

Lacking proper scholarly evidence, I’m just going to assume it showed up within a decade of the invention of printed news.

This is not the only platform I’ve seen Green come up for protest-voting in the last couple days. I see a psyop pattern.

I’m actually seeing a real lesson from the Mamdani campaign here. Not the one I really want to see them learn, but they learned something, at least.

They called you a bit of a hippie, almost certainly in an endearing way

Matt Gaetz says a lot of things

What the fuck

If the goal is to destabilize the regime until it collapses and then we fund a friendly government into power, it might be doable if we can block their oil exports. But we just lifted sanctions on their oil, so they’ll never run out of money. China may be making shaheds now, so even if we bomb all of Iran’s military manufacturing infrastructure, they can probably keep buying weapons forever.

Iran is very mountainous. This restricts the use of our biggest and best machines of war and gives them places to hide things. Iran is also big geographically and demographically, much larger than Iraq or Afghanistan. It’s also important to note that while the regime is not loved by many, they ALL really hate us. The regime is evil, but everyone west of Greece or so is a fucking demon to them. They have decent historical reasons to feel this way.

Occupying them and achieving complete surrender is probably not going to happen, and if we try for it, it’ll cost massive shitloads of money we don’t have and probably also a lot of lives. The best thing that can happen is we bail and try to say we won. The worst is the president nukes them and Russia nukes us back on their behalf. What I think is most likely is a collapse in the dollar and a withdrawal afterwards.

Decent chance that when it is hacked, the hackers will actually use it to spread true information.

For a few frames, there are actually three, and it turns into something a lot like a hand when he goes for the ass

The individual you’re replying to may be sincere, but a shill trying to demoralize us would say the exact same thing. If a scary message doesn’t end in a call to action, it’s not helpful.

With a superconductor, you can create a much more powerful electromagnet through which the coil will still produce a lot of voltage even when turning very slowly. Thus, you can use a much simpler gearbox or even just skip it entirely.

My favorite application for room-temp superconductors is low-speed generators. They have exactly one application, but it’s big: Wind towers without a giant gearbox. Wind power is cheap, but without the truck-sized gearbox with a bazillion moving parts that you can’t lift without the biggest cranes known to man, it’s even cheaper.

Man we got war droids already and the people who really need ones that work are NOT making theirs shaped like a guy.

Unless she has taken money from AIPAC, I’m inclined to assume she really means Hamas when she says that.

Going by the polls, roughly one in ten or perhaps more Americans have changed their mind about him already. They’re mostly independents, but he has also lost most of the literal actual Hitler-hailing nazis, which is a serious blow to his people power.

I’ve heard of it causing dementia regularly in blue-footed boobies because of their habit of high-speed diving to hunt. Every animal I’ve heard of that uses its head to bash things has a lot of special padding in the skull too. I think it’s pretty safe to assume animals can be concussed abd suffer similar forms of brain damage to a human.

I was mostly thinking about the attacks on desalination plants

Yes, in that they made this war happen and are attacking civilian targets in Iran. But Iran is attacking vital civilian infrastructure in countries supporting the USA, and I believe the goal is to make the entire region too fucked up to support American troops, both logistically and politically. Lots of people are going to die or be displaced for lack of water if Iran gets its way.

The more I read and think about this war, the more I think there are two ways it can go down: Either we fuck off shortly and maybe pretend we won or something, or we struggle in this mess long enough for the dollar to collapse, and then fuck off due to century-defining internal suffering and strife.

Iran is not a global superpower, but it is also not fucking around militarily, and it’s run by zealots who are comfortable turning the whole region into a flaming shithole just to burn us. I am not seeing a country ready to follow the behavioral patterns our military is built to achieve victory against.