Free speech is freedom from government infringement. Not anyone else. It doesn’t protect you from the corporations, the interest groups, or public opinion.

I’ve frankly been baffled by any pushback against this change. “Battle.net” doesn’t really tell anyone unfamiliar with Blizzard’s history that it has anything to do with the company.

The fact that he was having a hearing, which means he is going to be suspended was common knowledge long before you wrote that post so.....

Which is fine. If you accept the imperfections and whatever else, that’s fine. We’re not talking about happy couples here.

Yeah, we’ve had to talk about this, too. Because on the one hand, no one wants to be constantly criticized and if you feel you never do anything right you are likely to quit. On the other hand, criticism is sometimes valid and how we learn and I shouldn’t have to sugar coat things like, “The car seat is installed…

If you expand the definition to include over a hundred objects, then being a planet loses all meaning.

Seems like it would be hard to stretch “marry the right person and discuss all this shit before you have kids” into an actual book, but hey, she got at least one sucker, so good on her.

My biggest issue with the Pro-Planet faction is that 90% of their argument boils down to “nostalgia”, which is not a viable scientific criteria.

As opposed to carry-on baggage which is being moved through scanners but not necessarily hand searched. Unless they have changed things from the last time I flew, the checked baggaged is subject to hands on searches. If your iPad has tool marks on the seams, it’s a big red flag, which wouldn’t be seen by a scanner.

I would agree with you, but the AP is reporting that the British government has also implemented this ban. That gives it some credibility to me.

Wait the back of my car says V70

Before reading this article, I considered myself somewhat of a lightweight in the gearhead world. After reading this goop about fuel-injected cats and oil-pumping pistons, I feel like a world class automotive engineer.

These subs v carriers exercises take place in a small ‘relative to the size of the ocean’, prescribed area. A sub can just lie down, going at no more than 5mph and wait for the carrier to come within torpedo range.

I’m not sure if you are trolling or just ignorant. What would you call a given group of armed forces fighting another group of armed forces? If you want to get hyper-technical and play semantics, then at least say that’s what you are doing and don’t waste everyone’s time.

those planes don’t engage in battle. They fly, shoot missiles and drop bombs

Subs aren’t keepin up with a carrier at speed, the ships don’t go straight they are constantly turning and doubling back. The carrier CAP will take out the air recon planes or the guided missile destroyers Aegis systems will. A carrier is a tiny object in a vast sea. It also has jamming abilities and point defense…

They move quite fast, satellites are shit for constant target tracking as they don’t stay overhead, unless geostationary... which are too distant to provide the necessary resolution. Carriers are turning at forty miles per hour.

“Battle involves two sides of relatively equal strength and equal risk.”

Politics? I suppose my opining over this author’s narrative is political. That wasn’t the purpose of my post though. It was more to address that this author excluded the carrier’s contributions to various battles over the past 70+ years.

We do not build carriers to fight naval battles against China and Russia. We build carriers to project air power anywhere in the world, at any time, whether we have accessible air bases with mission permission or not. That is what carriers have been used for since World War II and will continue to be used for.