This is the liberal dream. So glad we avoided this here.
Day: June 15, 2022, 3:21 PM
Stealth
A new military airframe will be in service for about 30 years. A new generation of radar signal processor comes along every 3-5 years. Any stealth characteristics you design into an airframe will be obsolete for 80% of its service life—and hamper other aspects of performance. https://t.co/z0GEyt01E8
— Charlie Stross (@cstross) June 14, 2022
Eh, none of this is really true. I do agree there is too much emphasis on stealth when most of it should now be on drones and the like, but rarely do adversaries have the latest equipment in all the right places, either. And stealth isn’t all or nothing — it’s a spectrum.
If it takes 10 seconds longer to get a missile lock, that’s 10 seconds more for you to get away. This is another clueless take by someone who knows little to nothing.
Charts
The CCP's adamant commitment to a Zero Covid policy is necessitating lockdowns that are slowing economic growth such that US economy is now forecast to outgrow China's for the first time since the end of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. https://t.co/h9cBFmhvBe
— Nils Gilman (@nils_gilman) June 11, 2022
Hmm. What happened to the (always dubious) lib certitude that lockdowns lead to increased economic growth. Wait, that wasn’t true? But they had charts, charts I tell you!
PMC Inap
In the PMC lib mind, every relationship is inappropriate.
Crawling
The “whiny Fox News aggrieved white man NIMBY voice” is really annoying, but then again so is the liberal “I’m smarter than you and listen to this 30 minute lecture” NPR voice. Both make my skin crawl.
Unobtainability
Every time I think about it, it strikes me as more than a bit odd how the Fat Acceptance’s idea of an “unobtainable body” is just the body that 90% of people had 35 years ago.
What are they playing at? (Oh, right, propping up food company profits, I forgot.)
USUK
Eating burgers with salad wrap over bread is just so damn superior. Bread is officially dead. Without all the starch soaking the juices up you dont even need sauces on your burger. The fresh and wet lettuce adds a bacon like crunch and compliments, not absorbs, the moisture.
— Darrell Owens (@IDoTheThinking) June 14, 2022
Sounds like someone has never had good bread that complements the burger rather than detracting from it. 99% of bread is bad, especially in the US and the UK. When you find good bread, though, it makes all the difference.
String
To all of you who are under 40, I’m telling you, get in shape before 40 because after that you can maintain, but walking the line between building strength/stamina and injuring yourself is extremely perilous
— Emily Lakdawalla (@elakdawalla) June 14, 2022
I have had no problems, and I work out very hard. I’ve done more than maintain, too. I’ve made myself far more muscular and am several times stronger than I was four years ago.
Flagged
All the jokes on Twitter about Eisenhower looking queer on this picture reveal how much more rigid and conservative millennial and gen z's ideas of gender are than they were in the NINETEEN FORTIES https://t.co/8etRexWC20
— Caspar Shaller (@CasparShaller) June 13, 2022
This is true in many ways, because the corollary is that many Gen Z and Millenials are more prudish than many people were in the 1940s.
It seems outlandish, but alas it is true. Gen Z in particular seems to have a squeamishness about anything physical. It’s like (or perhaps is) a mental illness, or a severe cultural derangement.