Yes, it invariably devolves into oligarchy.

Because it’s all government subsidies/contracts.

Oof, I hope he doesn’t break the norm of Presidents doing press conferences clothed, I don’t think I’d recover if he did a nude one.

It’s like taxes, they probably already know, but they make you fill out the form so they can either catch you out if you forget one, or add it to the list if you give one they didn’t know about.

Because she was always a grifter.

Well, she now claims that that’s not what she said.

I was actually curious about how the Republican primary was going, and they somehow just appointed Sliwa again without even holding a primary? And Adams is still running but as an independent? The general is going to be confusing.

Yeah, I still have the ICE car because when I bought it I wasn’t in a position to charge at home, and electric cars were expensive ( like $100k+ for a second hand Model S).

But yeah, now I have a garage and there’s a ton of affordable cars coming out of China.

Yeah, I currently still have a petrol car, but I feel like an electric car would work out better with my current usage. I basically never do long trips, so every month or so I have to go out of my way to fill it up. If I had an electric car I could just plug it in at home, and if I was feeling fancy I could even set the charger up to only charge with excess solar so it would be completely free.

And finding a charger on a long trip and stretching your legs for about 20 minutes definitely seems better than stopping at a stinky petrol station.

Yeah, that’s definitely true for imperialist countries like Israel, the US and Russia.

I mean, that’s not really surprising. Every military makes plans for any contingency, and Israel especially has always been paranoid about Iran’s nuclear programme, so of course they would make sure they’re tracking the scientists in case they needed to make a move.

The disgusting part is them just pulling the trigger for political reasons instead of actual intelligence that indicates a breakout. And obviously killing civilians, which the scientists and their families are, but obviously Israel has shown in the past they don’t care about that.

The existing range was already good enough for most. I feel like you could read this as they could build a car with the same range with only half the battery pack, which saves on cost and weight.

Most people charge at home anyway, you only really need high voltage chargers along major roads.

Geneticists in a thousand years are going to have questions about a sudden boom in certain gene markers around this time if they don’t have the added context of billionaires deciding they’re the master race by virtue of being billionaires.

So this family member had all the logs and decided not to go to the authorities at all?

I fully expect that years from now we’ll find out he started WWIII over some petty bullshit.

He probably did it so he wouldn’t have to pay for the wedding or some shit like that.

I wouldn’t call global nuclear annihilation ‘winning’.

Yep, huge country, difficult terrain, largely homogeneous culture that goes back to the Persian Empire, homegrown weapons industry that can build their own drones and missiles. This is going to be more difficult by orders of magnitude.

You don’t need an education system, just past lived experience. Trump himself regularly lies about how he was always against the Iraq war. It’s just one letter off, should be pretty easy to work out what would happen if they did the same thing again.