“I worked hard to get the chance to kill people with drones” - Barack Obama
This is a canonical Erebus quote as far as I’m concerned.
Russian industrial capacity has literally collapsed, I never realized they were this weak
That’s a relief, guess we can cut Ukrainian funding and maybe even consider disbanding NATO if the Russians are this little of a threat.
Dudes citing promotional photographs from the single first unit being built in as though that’s indicative of the actual machining throughput.
Same energy as when redditors find a picture taken in 2004 of a run down Khrushchevka in a half abandoned mining town and use it as evidence that the Soviet Union/Russia is one giant slum
Somehow the stupidest thing happened and we live in the Watch_Dogs imagined future where hackers will be able to kill you with your internet-of-things connected vegetable juice machine.
The new arms include biological weapons designed to induce sleep or sleep-related disturbances in enemy troops. The goal is to impair cognition and alertness.
“We helped the West get a good night’s sleep and they will never forgive us for it” - Xi Jinping
Looking forward to being tranquilised by the PLA and fultoned away to Dengism motherbase to be made to read The Governance of China until I defect or whatever.
I see Carl of Swindon is as coherent as ever
That Garf be Garfin
“Late night, come home, work sucks, I know” - Karl Marx, Capital, 1867
Hell yeah
Unfortunately this is a way too common viewpoint amongst climate activists (see the XR “do vandalism then turn yourself in to the police” shit)
His F Scott Fitzgerald schtick is simultaneously cringe and compelling
I’m gonna be real, I caught it on TV over the holidays and may have legitimately been mixing a drink or something when this happened because I don’t remember that at all lmao - Fair play to the movie for doing that though, brings it up even further in my book.
There’s going to be US and UK elections this year where “You have to vote for a dogshit centrist candidate who will change absolutely nothing or le evil conservative populist will get in!!1” will be the constant talking point of both of them
Medieval Times
Makes me think of how in Arrival the Chinese are the most at risk of being militarily aggressive against the enigmatic aliens when it would 100% be America and it’s allies IRL.
Still a pretty interesting idea for a movie though.
Nightmare blunt rotation
r/CozyPlaces
Socialism with chuffing back a dart characteristics