The majority of actual homeless people have jobs.

https://endhomelessness.org/blog/employed-and-experiencing-homelessness-what-the-numbers-show/

https://www.usich.gov/guidance-reports-data/data-trends

Leaving King Oberon out of it? Admittedly those two do love to bicker.

I thought Dr. Seuss lived in, and was from, La Jolla, California?

Edit: huh, I guess he was from Springfield, MA.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Seuss

Remember kids, it is fully patriotic to frag fascists that are issuing illegal orders. Might not be legal, per se, but it is patriotic and moral.

Elephants are people. They just aren’t humans.

They had restrictions on their military, which were recently (in the last decade or so) lifted.

How about the more PC “Clanka?”

/s

“Mr. Data, full intrusive thought power, bearing 116.”

On Dec. 3 1941, the US as a whole was quite content supplying the allies with everything they needed materially. We had told the USSR to just make tanks, we would give them everything else, including the ammunition for said tanks. Letting the USSR take a win was certainly preferable to what happened after they took a loss at the end of WWI.

I wonder what could have possibly happened on Dec. 4, 1941, that got the country to collectively say, “Fuck that. We aren’t sitting by anymore.”

We probably won’t ever hit 11 billion contiguous humans. At least not without colonizing Venus. The birthrates worldwide are dropping quickly, and every time another country passes through the Industrial Age, into the Modern Age, their birthrates fall off a cliff. I suspect we will eventually stabilize around 9 billion people, which is a few billion lower than the maximum projected sustainable population of The Earth.

We didn’t lose a war with them, but the Barbary Pirates were giving the US trouble before we had a Navy… I also wouldn’t call the first war we had with them entirely successful, but we certainly didn’t lose it.

To be clear, the big 4 food suppliers I’m referring to supply restaurants and other commercial food companies, not grocery stores. Those four are why every damn restaurant in the US tastes the same. We legally aren’t allowed to buy from the farmer’s market or grocery stores as our normal supplier. If it is a one off thing then we can go to the grocer for some onions or whatever.

There’s a reason, in the US, that few people make their own clothing, despite being the one good that we haven’t figured out a way to completely remove the human labor aspect of it.

https://youtu.be/4VJxJesgF8Y

TL:DW JoAnn’s Fabrics became a monopoly, and imploded due to Private Equity restructuring them. This means that fabric, and even raw fiber, is now harder to source. It also meant that even while JAF was in business, it was cheaper to buy premade clothing than make your own since sometime in the 1970s.

The same thing has happened with food suppliers, though the big 4 haven’t imploded, yet.

If you can get me safely to .999 C, slow me down, and get me back to Earth at .999 C, sure. The entire trip for me would only be about two years, provided a consistent 1 G of acceleration. Just please make it so that reversing acceleration doesn’t completely screw me, so my spaceship doesn’t have to do a complicated flip a bit after the halfway point on each trip. I’m certain that wouldn’t be good for my stomach.

Beyond that, the sun has about 5 billion years before we might not be able to starlift it back to a “younger” state, so The Earth and Venus may not exist at all if we don’t get our asses in gear for sustainable intragalactic life in the next century or so.

It’s not just US aircraft. Most military aircraft have the ability to turn off their transponders. That’s kinda SOP when flying a mission.

The main difference with many US military aircraft is that they have a tiny radar cross sections, so ATC can’t “see” them, not just can’t “hear” them. That refuling plane should have shown on radar, transponder or not. That thing is literally about the size of three barns, not the nuclear physics kind, and literally can’t have much in the way of radar stealth the way the plane it was refueling probably had.

The other main difference here is that normally our joint chiefs, and secretary of defense war don’t have their head up their asses about OPSEC. Normally such an operation would have not come anywhere near civilian flight paths, but these assholes literally said that the troops should be “drawing fire.”

That’s a regressive way of thinking. Revenge doesn’t actually feel good once you are done, it feels wrong. Put them in a rehabilitative program so that they will learn why what they did was wrong, and how much harm they did to themselves and others.

He was able to do what he could do. Believe me when I say that there’s absolutely a wall that most people never hit when it comes to shooting a living being, human or not. Most people never hit that wall, because they never seek out the activities that would cause you to hit that wall. I couldn’t shoot my first deer. Shooting my first human was a bit easier, as I actually shot them, but still caused hesitation. I don’t know about the second human or second animal, and I hope I never find out. Unfortunately, with the way things are going, I suspect I will have to shoot more people to survive.

Derail Valley Simulator is actually quite chill, once you have an idea of how to handle your trains. I have almost $7,000,000 saved up to see how big of a boom I can cause without going into debt, or hurting my engines and caboose.

That’s why I dropped pre-law. I realized I cared more about winning than the law, and didn’t want to end up, not where that dude is, but somewhere tangential.