This.

Hungary has this thing where the agitprop always gets some footage taken before the protest starts so the crowd looks smaller as it’s only the early people there from police drones.

You can’t fly your own drone to counter the narrative.

Iran already tried to kill Trump before the election

Then, when a Democratic president takes office the court will walk it back and say “well, actually, there’s this exception, and this exception, and that exception…”

Or they won’t, because the Dem president will simply “not abuse such powers” due to their “adherence to decorum”.

The SC made the president god-king while Biden was in office.

GEKOLONISEERD

Oh yeah, tell me about it. You still get far-right protests against Israel where I’m from because while they like the genocide, they still hate Jews. Weird people are weird.

This protest is pro-democracy though.

about laws in general

Terms of Service aren’t laws. Breaking them is not illegal. It’s like using the waterslide while sitting and not lying on your back. In fact, it’s explicitly legal to use an adblocker and control what happens on your device in both the EU and the US. There are ongoing debates whether the surveillance required for blocking adblockers is legal in the EU.

Google does break laws all the time by the way, and is holding a monopoly. If people had to pay for Youtube, alternatives would spring up overnight, but since you can still watch Youtube free, they can’t.

Also, I’d be the happiest person if Google finally figured out how to block people with adblockers completely, so that the majority of people would wean themselves off of one of the world’s biggest disinfo peddlers.

This makes me happy.

And as a result, all “No Kings” protests in Minnesota are cancelled. I guess it worked.

No problem since the police makes themselves look like military, so if it looks like a tank, it’s probs police, if it looks like a police car, it’s most likely security. If it looks like security, then I guess it’s going to be Jimbo with the lifted truck bought on credit. /s

Exactly my thoughts. Like, this should make the protest larger, not stop it. This is exactly what they are protesting against, is it not?

That’s what I meant. But it raises a question, can the Pentagon not afford to get catered food for when they call a bunch of people in to do overtime?

Nah, the resistance actively went and buried its head in the sand. They cancelled all the No Kings protests in Minnesota in response to this. WTF

It seems like it’s a national security issue to open a Dominos in the Pentagon I guess

OTOH, TACO

But not the genocide. They just don’t like Hamas hitting back

I guess the point is that it’s easier to just put a solar plant at the end of the wire going forward than to replace the heating at the site of consumption.

I don’t care for the Chinese leadership, but this is to be celebrated. Let’s all make progress.

Funnily enough, it just got proven that it is in fact useful again. You can buy a drone swarm and it can down AF1 even.

It just needs more brains to aim than an M16.

closet thing I did to that was a simulated rope break while instructing on gliders

Yeah same, except I had a bunch of actual rope breaks (faulty rope). It’s fucking harrowing.

Yeah, you summed up all my thoughts on the subject really great. It really feels that it would be better to have airports a bit further away from population centers, but I know it’s not always feasible.

At least at my local I can glide my little Piper down to the tulip fields, at least that’s what I keep telling myself. Doing it in an airliner… it must have been horrifying for the pilots.

Some people were saying, based on a video of the crash that it might have been mechanical, as they heard the sound of the RAT that only deploys on double engine failure.

Also, wouldn’t a bad config cause a full-on stall? It seemed more of a controlled glide to me.