Oh that’s easy. Turns out everyone on the board is now a landlord for like 100 properties each, they’re all simply ADMINISTERED through the corporation, for which each board member pays a modest fee.

Behind the Bastards also did a great series on it

We have nukes. Trump is desperate for ANYTHING to make his mark. Being the first president since Truman to deploy one would be something I could see him doing.

Plus all the shock absorption for the lense. And the avionics if you don’t plan to just have this thing drop film into a predetermined area (like the old Keyhole sats or the U-2).

No, it already does. Facial-ID stuff already throws hundreds of false positives.

No no, Lindsey Graham was pretty clear that this is a war for oil. You can extract oil from a fallout zone, you just need a large amount of workers who you don’t care about. Wonder where they might find those.

Again, this is standard wealth transfer to corporate America. All that cash goes into these senator’s pockets via the MIC.

I keep telling people these aren’t distractions. Iran might’ve started that way, but Venezuela, Mexico, now Cuba, and probably anywhere else in the Caribbean or South America that doesn’t play ball with the regime - these are wars of expansion. Trump wants more things he can point to and say “I did that” and doing colonialism by proxy like we did with Venezuela already looks easy, and it generates your name in the news an awful lot. Never mind that all the companies and expats and their kids are still sore about being forced off the island at gunpoint by the revolution, and the CIA is definitely STILL wanting payback for the Bay of Pigs.

Legitimately nothing. I think this is MS looking for use cases, because they have sunk all their capacity into AI. They cannot detangle themselves from their AI, and they’re trying to course correct into SOMETHING that might be profitable and pull them out of their death spiral.

Legitimately the dude is a sociopathic teenager.

“Why would I wanna spend time with Grandma or the kids or my wife or my dog when I can sit and play video games and draw cool stuff in my notebooks.”

I don’t think any of these fucking weirdos know what “genuine human connection” IS. I don’t think any of them have actually internalized a genuine, caring relationship at any point. They know how the steps of the dance, they can do it on command, but it’s soulless.

Getting every episode of Dr Oz uploaded to your frontal lobes.

Nope, Corey is out of the house now too.

There might not have been OPENLY, but I highly doubt a group that literally refers to detained illegal migrants as “tonks” for the sound a flashlight makes hitting a human skull in its official documentation, mind you was not already happy to recruit open white supremacists.

Also no way to enforce. DOJ won’t bother and they know it.

Russia nukes Kyiv, China nukes Taiwan, North Korea (assuming delivery capabilities) nukes Seoul, India probably drops nukes on China and Pakistan, etc. It’s the actual Domino Theory people were talking about during the Cold War, they just thought the domino was communism. Once the bandaid gets ripped off and nuclear weapons are an accepted and normalized tool of conventional war, they’re now EVERYONE’S first resort.

The issue is that we’ve been looking at these people as misguided idiots rather than the thugs that ICE/CBP always were. They’re acting exactly as we should expect, except now they’ve got an admin backing them to the hilt on literally anything and everything they do.

When you have a structure that’s been BUILT out of rotted wood, you can’t just replace the most obvious rot and call it good.

Nah, if we’re comparing them to feudal failsons, these are the sorts of kids that nobles would send off to become monks. They wouldn’t be any good at ruling effectively or really doing much, but they’d be in a monastery and out of the way.

You would be extremely surprised. Car maintenance is expensive, and lack of inspection very often leads to people driving vehicles that should have been off the road years ago simply because a lot of states that axe it, axe inspections because they’re expensive for the driver (a lot of these states are in the former Steel Belt). In better-off areas or places where people have more time/money/equipment/space to wrench on cars, then yes, but here in my city, I definitely have seen cars where the entire frame is basically being held together by Bondo and prayer, cars where they’re running on 4 spares, cars where enormous sections of the body paneling are just gone. I’ve nearly been hit by people who clearly relied on yearly inspections to tell them “hey your brakes are failing” because they drive on autopilot and just adjust how they drive to accommodate failing/failed brakes.

In fact, I suspect maintenance costs are HIGHER in areas without inspection, because shops could rely on that regular-ish influx of cash even if it was only like $50-$100 a vehicle, AND you have the customer in the shop, so it’s easier to go “hey you really need brakes, it’ll cost you an extra $200 and take an extra hour or two”.

And listen to your kid if they say it’s not what it looks like. My troop looked totally fine if you asked the Scoutmaster. It turns out it was just his kid and his kid’s best friends who were all assholes. I got beaten up at least once, and eventually got kicked out because I pulled my knife on the Scoutmaster’s kid, because he had pulled his knife first, and literally backed me up against a cliff with it. Dude was a psycho and eventually joined the Army during the big 2009 push (what a shock).

Mom insisted I go every week, it’s not that bad, etc, and then literally had the stones to tell me “you should’ve said something” when I got thrown out.