You can absolutely cause catastrophic damage to a commercial airliner with lasers that are designed to melt drone components.

Just aim it at the engine intake, something will deform or melt due to temperature, and in a second or two, you’ve got a first stage compressor that’s eating itself.

Or if you want to fuck with control authority, melt parts of the elevators while it’s coming in for landing so they lose pitch control. Which is, you know, kind of important.

Speaking of hard to read…

It also raises concern over the competence of the US military command and deployment staff in the area, because that was an entirely predictable, avoidable, unforced error resulting in the loss of a serious strategic asset.

Yep. It’s bad people doing bad things for bad reasons to other bad people, and the plebs get caught in the meat grinder.

Same as it ever was, I guess.

In the context of this shitty situation, this is pretty much the absolute least controversial point of the whole thing. Iran supplied shaheds, as well as the design (which Russia proceeded to refine and mass produce and use against Russia). Iran has effectively been actively hostile towards Ukraine for years before Operation Epstein Feelings kicked off. What the actual fuck did they think was gonna happen?

To be clear: the Iran War is absolutely, categorically, pants-on-head stupid, and is an awful idea for a multitude of reasons from a multitude of domains. But this specific aspect of it is entirely uncontroversial.

8:1.

Jackson was the sole dissenter.

This is yet another brick in the wall for “the Supreme Court has become a core part of the problem”.

Kessler syndrome goes brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

You need to understand that there is a real faction within the already heinous Nationalist Christians that are even more truly batshit insane than their already crazy baseline, who are genuinely doing their level best to bring about the biblical end times - which, of course just means a nuclear holocaust for everyone. This is not hyperbole. There are people who are actually pushing for that outcome who are part of our regime right now.

I’m so tired

The bad news is that the first time you update your package manager, it moves EVERYTHING to your home directory

Well, considering they’re leaving into the evangelical bullshit… I don’t know that i concur with the last bit.

Encourage them to seek therapy instead?

He’s not only rigging the markets - he and some in his regime are evidently insider trading on polymarket around pants-on-head stupid geopolitical outcomes that the regime duly turns around and executes because making a buck on the side is their guiding principle

The difference between TSA and ICE is like the distance between Paul Blart and Derek Chauvin

Really comes down to personal preference, as well as humidity.

This article is specifically about pharmaceuticals and pharmaceutical precursors. It is about air transport, and the fact that war makes air transport dangerous.

The article is not primarily about sea passage.

RTFA.

The problem is not sea passage. The problem is “the Persian gulf is now combat airspace, and several major air transit and cargo hubs are in the area”.

RTFA

It is highly dependent on where you live. And it’s not density-specific, either. Some cities are sketchier than others. Some rural areas are sketchier than others.

Same as it ever was