You use the word “logic” but failed to use that very thing to parse what I actually meant. For simplification:

Yes, to me, the Confederate flag symbolizes losing. Losing wars, losing independence, losing the one thing you stood for.

I think that’s the wrong counterargument. Nothing is inevitable, it is possible to stop the F-35 today at ~100 air frames, hell that’s pretty much what happened to the F-22.

Well, I never mentioned LO because the F-16 isn’t even LO to begin with. What’s your point?

You’re grasping on this one. F-35 has its issues (moreso on the project management side than the vehicle itself, which was money-bombed into shape), but it outclasses the competition on range with internal fuel alone.

Since Stannis isn’t dead in the books, they might have left that one thread just and only in case GRRM decides to make him important again. Otherwise, I’m pretty sure they’re content to leave him dead. His story ended where we all knew it would: dead or on the throne. He gambled everything and lost the throne, leaving…

WW has been flying for decades...

My reaction to the 10 minute walk:

I hate to interrupt the orgy of “instructions make us a less creative society” comments, but I’d like to point out that changing gears from one type of thinking to another takes a lot longer than most people realize. So the people who built the set from plans are not harmed by having an instruction sheet, they’re just…

Close, but wrong. USSR was the literal definition of 2nd world. The second world ceased to exist the same day Russia succeeded from the USSR. It joined the third world (states unaligned with eithe NATO or the USSR) on that day.

You would be wrong. Russia is a third world country. First world was US/NATO allied democracies. Second world were communist bloc or USSR aligned states. Third world were unaligned. It was never about rich or poor countries.

Also, though this only helps with muscle pain resulting from shit posture and generally not nerve pain, rows. Rows build upper back muscles, including some used to support the neck and head.

US Grant was the George W Bush of the 19th Century. I mean, he wasn’t bloodthirsty, but he let corrupt cronies run the White House and defended them when the public figured out what was going on.

Yeah, who are they to impinge on my right to be unintentionally infected by listeria because I just wanted a fucking salad?

Fuck Big Food, they simply don’t care. Fuck you too for schilling for them, and fuck whoever educated you for failing to teach you Upton Sinclair. Fuck you all every time there’s a another PREVENTABLE tainted meat recall or listeria outbreak THAT KILLS SOMEONE, which is about every other month.

Manifest destiny has always been about the self-righteous trampling over the powerless. Hell, that’s the entire appeal: build an empire in an area too undeveloped to stop you. Then throw around your new-found weight back home to bludgeon the not-quite-as-powerful.

A $100,000 stinger missile would be more than a little overkill for a stupid $10,000 autonomous air vehicle. Those things are really, really slow. I’d recommend just shooting them with a gun. 1 dollar bullets make for great return on ammo investment.

Sources within Comcast have already shot this one down.

Absolutely marketing hype is why sea salt is often so expensive. I mean, how do you think they make it? They pretty much pump Seawater into big trays and let the water evaporate. Then they scrape it out. Maybe they’re impatient and they boil the seawater. Either way, it’s pretty cheap and simple to make.

It does remind me of a mashup between WebOS and Android 5.x’s card paradigm.