I don’t actually think all these Trump supporters are mentally ill, but before his presidency, there was a time where I would have considered someone who is paranoid and aggressively believes in false notions despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary to be an insane person, but now, its clear that we have…

That actually used to be true, at least with network news. You couldn’t broadcast something as news if you knew it was false. Three guesses who sued to make it okay to say just anything under the banner of “news.” This was back in the time when, kind of ingeniously, SCOTUS ruled that over-the-air channels were subject…

Doing the ethically right thing protects the interest of shareholders and the brand in the long term. These people aren’t even doing the fiscally right thing, which is the very thing they think they’re doing. It’s just sad overall.

Hey hey hey, there, speaking as a mentally ill person, most of us have, if anything, an overdeveloped sense of shame.

...you know, my knee-jerk reaction to seeing this reference is to say “okay, but let’s not be hyperbolic,” but then I remembered that these people are literal Nazi sympathizers.

Also he was Asian American for… reasons?

This is what Hannah Arendt described as the banality of evil. Adolf Eichmann was doing his soldierly duties; this time the people “just doing their job” are protecting a corporate brand and share price [vomit]. Same cynicism and moral cowardice, and civilization once again at stake. 

“In for a penny, in for a pound,” amiright? After all...

Build it and they will come

Yes, countries spy on each other and have for centuries, but that’s not what this is about. This is about using something as ridiculous and over as using an airspace violating spy balloon that can be easily detected by radar. You generally try to be, you know, subtle about spying on someone.

What a weird accusation. This is nearly Putin levels of delusion, they’re literally just accusing us of doing what they got caught doing, so that it seems fair or something. Although it would be funny if we had a spare Macy’s Winnie the Pooh balloon we could release over them.

This whole thing is so silly. The game is already rated for nudity, so why is this a deal at all? Am I missing something? Like who’s the person who bought Witcher being shocked that a naked person has genitals?

So some signals are lousy to capture and track from space. Just like many signals will not break the surface of the ocean (in or out), some signals are not monitored easily from the upper atmosphere or low orbit. So you need to monitor from a lower altitude. The US does this too, although we usually use aircraft (but…

I have this feeling that it’s not the first time Donald Trump has screamed at someone to shoot down a balloon.

Yeah, that’s not the best video. This is...

No they won’t. Induction is better in almost every way, it’s faster to heat/cool, gets hotter, safer, more consistent, doesn’t turn your kitchen into an oven. The main thing it doesn’t do is provide actual fire, so things like charring peppers you can’t just do on the open flame.

The right take is to impose strict rules on the emissions...... That will provide a transition that may eventually lead to them being phased out. The additional controls will cost money to develop which will be reflected in the price of gas stoves going up —- reducing the number of gas stoves bought in general. Those…

Seems like an easy NP.

Negative, Steve was flying the Northrop M2-F2, not the X-15