During the age of sail some navies experimented with square shot because they thought it might be easier to manage them on a rolling ship. But it turned out that making the bore for the cannon square was way harder than just stacking round shot carefully the way they had always done

Shhhhh, they might hear you!

Hopefully one day that will contribute heavily to their downfall

There will always be people who will see the atrocities and errors and want to do something about it. At some point, that little spark will hit dry tinder and go off.

Well put

The longer game is not training one class of students, but enabling African schools to train their own.

This reminds me of the quote

Those who really want to help us can give us ploughs, tractors, fertilizers, insecticides, watering cans, drills and dams. That is how we would define food aid.

Don’t worry, it’s a hundred miles away and 25 feet up a tree. Even if I wanted to I couldn’t

Anyway let’s manifest some good news this week whatever that even looks like these days

Ansarallah has been kicking ass and taking names pretty consistently lately. That’s where I’m looking for good news, barring the unforeseen and unexpected

Have you considered that being smug and happy about spreading this doomerism might make it more correct? You never know until you try a thousand times

Thanks for doing it, I agree and it’s nice to see your (and others) well thought out responses pushing back on the uninformed dooming.

I only really have the information posted in the newsmega to go on, but consistently the doomers have less information and report their doom with glee. Even if they were all well informed and correct, their constant fucking tone of “I’m right and happy to be so” in the face of the suffering of the Venezuelan people pisses me off

I spent a season working in an orchard in the Central Valley and I think I saw more confederate flags than where I grew up (in the former confederacy). I’ve been told by family that lives nearby that since maga has taken hold you do see fewer confederate flags because they’ve all been replaced by trump and q-brained stuff

tying your country to a sinking ship just feels like the wrong decision.

During the First World War, as the Austro-Hungarian army fell apart and needed more and more support from Germany just to stay in one piece, the common saying amongst the Germans was that being allied to them was like being shackled to a corpse. I always liked that phrase, and it’s nice that I get to use it more and more these days.

I hope all the vassals of empire go with it into the dustbin of history so that the rest of the world can flourish

Yeah the giant pile of nukes in the hands of a bunch of ghouls is still the main issue here

These brave soldiers intercepted the missiles with their bodies and we’re here trying to split hairs about some data? What has the world come to?

Damn that’s a honker! That sounds like a really cool interaction too, I’m glad you saved them!

What if not tying his own shoes once in his entire life has made him able to preserve his brainpower for this one very important thought?

Saudi pilots yearn for the ditch, it was made for them

How many barbell weights for the nose cones where the radar should be? Or maybe those are easier to source locally

People will hate me for this

You’re preaching to the choir here, I don’t think anyone on this site would argue with you about that