FuglyDuck

Slap a tax for any company whose ceo makes some percentage more than its core work force.

We can get all fancy on the math, but their pay is not commensurate to the value they bring

It’s about Netty-bo yanking on Trump’s leash.

this isn’t our war. it’s Netanyahu’s. (and maybe the Saudis, too.)

even Worf’s “calisthenics” were mostly “that”

and some form of ranked voting.

And maybe some form of nation-wide recall systems to deal with the fettermans of the world.

There’s a significant number of men who don’t realize marital rape is even a thing, here in the US.

So they completely agree that “rape of any kind” should be criminalized, as well as going home and raping their wives cuz “god said so.”

And this is why I prefer those old school prism mirrors.

You’ve never heard of one of those breaking, and they dim glare behind me instantly, instead of just as you were getting used to being being blinded and kind of sort of liking it,

What’s to deliberate?

No kings. No fuckwits. No gaudy monstrosities!

Crawl back into the cave with the rest of the troglodytes?

I think we maybe need to force these idiots watch School House Rock again.

Maybe their voters, too.

Worse, this jackhole gets to be like “I think I’m gong to just not run for re-election” and get to go do it all to someone else again.

So like, the reality is that if he’d just admitted it, nobody would care. they’d forgive him and move on. The only times republicans care about purity of any sort is if it’s a democrat caught cheating, or an underage girl they want to fuck.

she committed suicide by self immolation.

which is an absolutely horrendous way to go. and all because he coerced her to have sex with him.

Judge: “I think RFK should get shot. Is that unreviewable?”

DoJ lawyer: “Judge? Did you mean to say that out loud?”

RFK: <squeaky trombone noises>

So, here’s the thing.

That’s not a great analogy. The MIM-104 Patriot missile system is still providing vital and necessary functionality on a daily basis.

It’s also mobile in the exact same way I’m suggesting the V-150 could (and should,) be.

And finally, the reason they haven’t done that is because there’s plenty of other options like the RIM-174, which we also gave them. (But I’m not so sure it’s as vital. That’s a high bar to cross.)

As for its size, yeah. It’s huge. But you’re comparing that to earth construction. Star Wars always went big. For example the Lucrehulk freighter (which they used for a pilot training academy,)

That thing was large enough that pretty much every they brought to Hoth could fit on it and access with all the same capability as echo base itself. With room to spare. They probably wouldn’t even need to give up the flight academy!

The point being, it’s not unreasonable to suggest they could just literally do that- strap it to an appropriately sized freighter.

Like i mentioned before: they had to get it there somehow, and it’s not the type of thing you’d just build in place. (They stole it and several other cannons, after all.)

Drunk Nazis Spin Doctors, even.

so, here’s an incredible cross sections scan of the v-150 cannon on hoth:

The cannons are absolute beasts. Don’t get me wrong.

We don’t actually know how big the thing is, at least not directly. We do have a scene with a golan df.9 turret (the stubby tower ones, not the dish turrets,) is next to it. those are 4 meters in height In the screen grab of the ion cannon. guestimating the height behind the snow drift, I make the ball 6 df.9’s in diameter. 8, if I ignore the base and go with whats seen, and ignoring the actual barrel thingies. (that’s another df.9.)

So for surface installation (Ball turret plus the reactor core that’s under the ball,) I’d make it needing something between 48 to 64 meters in over all length, and 24 to 36 meters in cylindrical space.

this wouldn’t be that hard to bolt on to something like a GR-75, which is 90 meters long, and mostly just cargo racks. Keep in mind they had to get all that equipment there in the first place, and these aren’t the kind of things you’re building in place, it might be broken down into some submodules, but you’re not breaking them down into component parts.

if a GR-75 isn’t large enough, (maybe because the reactor core isn’t… a reactor core? and needs “base” power.) Then the Imperial Container Ship certainly is (and incredibly easy to steal.) You can actually build that thing out to something that resembles a mobile operations base, to be honest. (the internals of the cargo stack are all shirt-sleeve habitation, apparently,)

Both ships have an advantage here in that they would be rather easy to modify into hauling something other than containers, and including possibly something outsized like the ion cannon. basically becoming a system defense monitor (slow, big guns, and mobile only the sense that, sure, it technically can shuffle off.)

You could do a few things with it. use it concert in lightling raids- it doesn’t come deep into the envelope, but it hits the biggies from range. Probably after a recon flight pops in and gives targets, it can jump in and start blasting with lighter things coming in to do whatever. fighters, bombers, etc.

alternatively, drop it in orbit and let it hang out where it can cover an escape and shuffle off on it’s own. (bonus points for everything else being space-based and not planet-side.)

War tourism is a new booming industry.

A better question is why were they there in the first, and why Trump only got his peeps out.

a scam. It’s a scam.

a mastodon server mod wouldn’t be able to do anything on lemmy world, anyways.

It absolutely is fantasy

But the physics as far as that goes are still on point compared to, idunno, Star Trek.

The sound in space, the swooping, all of that were story telling tools used to convey a sense of what was happening. Realistic space battles aren’t really all that exciting.

Not even the expanse got that right. They just replaced particle beams with Gatling guns and condescending but inaccurate explanations of why things don’t swoop.

Fun fact, the reason planes and stuff seem to swoop is because they’re under constant accelerations and observed from the perspective outside the plane. One source of that constant acceleration is the atmosphere (drag and lift,) but you can just as easily replace that with fusion maneuvering thrusters or something.

The Texas Supreme Court’s decision to separate votes in Dallas County cast after 7 p.m. Tuesday has raised questions about when, or perhaps even if, those those votes ultimately will be counted.

The Supreme Court’s decision followed widespread confusion among Dallas County voters who apparently showed up a polling locations where they weren’t eligible to vote — and an order by a judge in Dallas County to extend voting hours. County elections officials notified potential voters online that “Democratic Party polling locations…would remain open until 9:00PM” and that Republican locations would close at 7 p.m. “as scheduled.”

That could have been a sentence: “Texas is trying to suppress votes by cutting off votes that happened after the polling queues closed.”

What’s happening is that people are getting into the queue before the polls close, and because Texas is fucked like that, a large number of voters physically hand in their ballets past.

So they’re saying those votes don’t count.

And let’s be clear, the “staffing challenges” or whatever, are intentional.