You’re too stupid to have an opinion, be quiet.

The US adds 150,000-200,000 jobs every month.  Just for context.

But how will we get the Fantastic 4 then?

“There is nothing I hate more”

We do that all the time.  

How the fuck do you think most of our rovers and deeper space satellites are powered?

Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generators that use thermal energy given off by radioactive decay. We’ve literally been sending into space since the before Apollo program. Every Apollo landing, deep-space probe, and Mars rover has had one…

It wouldn’t be the first time, and we semi-regularly launch missions with plenty of highly enriched plutonium onboard in the form of RTGs. While it’s not as pure as this would be, an accident wouldn’t be a nothingburger.

This, unfortunately. A lot of people treat this as a one-or-the-other choice, but that’s ridiculously ahistorical. The list of US allies in the Middle East has always been short, and Israel has been on it since 1947. It’d be difficult to just toss that out of a window whatever they did this year in Gaza.

Sincere question: What should the US do? Cut Israel off and leave it alienated and its leaders even more paranoid than they are now? Israel has nuclear weapons. Iran may have them. Biden is trying to maintain a delicate balance between getting the Gaza genocide stopped and having Israel believe its only recourse is to …

It’s funny because there are some people out here still treating the very real onrush of domestic fascism as an alarmist hypothetical, when there are whole-ass documents (plural) stating EXACTLY what the MAGA GOP’s plan is. More reasonable (by comparison) Republicans in deep red states are leaving the party, and…

(“The blood is on your hands, Biden, we can see it all/And fuck no, I’m not votin’ for you in the fall/Undecided.”)

Boeing’s hoping to blow the doors off the competition with this flight.

Were there pedestrians on the pathway that the cop car had just passed?

Well, given that the idiot was unable to stop in time for a stopped cruiser, despite a valliant last ditch throw-the-anchor effort of the ATV rider, it is reasonable to assume that he also would not have been able to successfully stop or evade pedestrians.

Just a few days ago, up in Albany, some moron driving an ATV on a pedestrian path hit a student, and now she’s in the hospital in a coma with a TBI. Alexa Kropf, University at Albany student from Floral Park, in medically induced coma after hit-and-run - Newsday

One was not an active threat to anyone, the other is a guy riding a vehicle that weighs a few hundred pounds at 30+ miles per hour on a path meant for pedestrians lol

I am failing to see how the cop did not do *exactly* the right thing here. If moron was going too fast to stop in time to not hit a very plainly visible cop car, he was going too fast to not hit a pedestrian. Not like he came around a blind corner and there was the cop.

Two parties in the wrong you say?

If you were going too fast to avoid a stopped car, you were going too fast to avoid a pedestrian. I’m good with this one.

These aren’t mutually exclusive. You can require more of drivers, while also making cars themselves safer at the same time for when human drivers decide to be...human.