I hear “Were-Chest-Sure” around here.

Well, as long as we fly out an antivaxxer in change of the only department that can ban existing vaccines, that should be fine.

They should harness the crazy for good. Make conspiracy theory-sounding stories, but make them factual and get people to take positive action.

“They created chemicals you can inject into the bloodstream that keeps them from getting the Measels.”

“The overlords in their golden towers want to tell you who you are and aren’t allowed to love.”

I have advanced degrees in climatology and geographic modeling, so I feel like I’m allowed to say that yes, anthropogenic climate change is a well-researched and understood process AND that you don’t know shit about what expertise other people in this thread have.

Just because your opinion is uneducated doesn’t mean mine is.

That was CIA interference.

It’s bad, but it doesn’t require a military presence.

Are they being sold to Russia directly, or is Russia buying them through an intermediary to skirt around sanctions.

Essentially nation-level straw purchasing.

We have one my great-grandma got before WWI that we use several times a week.

Having a US military base (that wasn’t forcibly installed by the US military) in your country is usually great for a country’s security at a fantasic price. Especially if you’re a country that’s not likely to have an adversarial relationship with the US.

The US isn’t likely going to invade or go to war with Romania anytime soon, so having US military thousands of US troops, aircraft, and the world’s most advanced missile defense systems placed there offers great security that they’re paying for just by being located in a strategically useful position.

How the fuck did they let motherfucking Zoom take over. The video-call equivalent of “Googling” something was to “Skype.” When Covid hit, Microsoft screwed the pooch horribly.

My sister is super high ranking at Microsoft, and when she calls the family, she uses Zoom.

My biggest complaint is that you can’t save chat logs.

I work in government, and we do a LOT of stuff on Teams, and I’m just waiting for us to get sued because we can’t turn over Teams chat logs in Open Records requests.

Yeah.

The only real reason to own this console is if you want improved performance on a $10,000 TV that you sit too close to.

Black powder weapons aren’t legally firearms, yeah.

You know that, even in the US, you can’t just sell a gun online and ship it to their house, right?

In fact, someone without a federal firearms dealer’s license can’t transfer a handgun to ANYONE who lives in a different state at all.

They’re charging new-gen console money for new-gen console hardware upgrades, but all the games are still being made for the non-pro PS5, and they will continue to be made for the old hardware until the PS6 launches, so there’s no reason to upgrade.

Same reason I’m perfectly happy with my Series S. The only substantial difference between it and the Series X are the storage space and disc drives, and I play gamepass games almost exclusively.

Yep: but they can’t force you to give them the password because of 5th Amendment protections from self-incrimination.

And even if they did have the right to tell you to give them the password, they don’t have access if you simply refuse to cooperate. They can get your fingerprints, face ID, or retina scan by force. They cannot extract information from your brain.

BTW: Lots if phones also have a “lockout mode” that can be enabled that will give you the option to lock it down to password-only without turning it off. It can be good for recording police interactions, because it will continue to record them while they can’t access the contents of the phone if they swipe it from you.

Trump is really bad at following through.

Other than the millions of deaths and the bad economy, which are weirdly short-term things, what did he actually accomplish first term aside from fucking up the judiciary? And even that was really more of a McConnel accomplishment from the Obama era.

They’re absolutely sending their best.

The problem is what they’re best at is being Maga assholes.

I remember my great-grandma talking about picking cotton in the field one day, and being scared out of her mind when an airplane flew over her head. She’d come to Texas from California on a covered wagon, had never lived in a home with electricity, and hadn’t heard about the flying machine being invented.

I helped her set up an email account about a year before she died.

The guy operating the drone is still allergic to bullets. So is the politician giving the orders.

Submarines, stealth fighters, etc are good for fighting militaries, not anonymous armed civilians.

Insurrections armed with small arms drove the US military out of Iraq and Iran, and that’s with none of the US military changing sides because they were being ordered to aguaranheir own people.

Shy of carpet-bombing cities and nuking the countryside, a tyrannical government can’t fully shield itself from an armed population. And when they start committing that level of atrocity, the military starts breaking into factions.

I think he’s supposed to be wiping milk vomit off his mouth in the 3rd panel.