[-] tomatolung@sopuli.xyz 17 points 1 month ago

Reminds me of the bugging of the new embassy in Moscow. It's a cautionary tail in and of itself which relates to this jet.

Air and Space Forces Magazine: Cleaning the Bug House.

...“Mr. Ambassador, these are the plans that disclose how the bugging of your embassy took place, and these are the instruments that were used,” said Bakatin. “I want them turned over to your government, no strings attached.” Strauss was dumbstruck, according to an account of the incident he gave later that year. After years of denial, the Soviet intelligence arm was admitting its role in one of the most notorious espionage incidents of the 1980s: It had packed the new US Embassy office building in Moscow with sophisticated listening devices. The edifice’s structure was so riddled with bugs that some US counterespionage experts described it as nothing but a giant microphone.

[-] tomatolung@sopuli.xyz 27 points 3 months ago

I believe it's a remote station/environment issue based on my working in Antarctic and on Research ships.

NSF finally saw the light after it was forced down their throat, and they still haven't resolved it.

https://apnews.com/article/women-working-antarctica-sexual-harassment-assault-mcmurdo-ba0e550fddf1ab0afd031ff4d25143cb

[-] tomatolung@sopuli.xyz 19 points 3 months ago

Antarctic builds are costly, difficult, and filled with challenges you don't see in daily life, so while that might seem like a simple idea, it's about half as hard as as putting it on the space station, with a 10th or less the budget.

[-] tomatolung@sopuli.xyz 23 points 5 months ago

Critically, neither country made concessions to Trump on Monday regarding their trade balance — a condition Trump laid out as a requirement in order to prevent the 25 percent tariff from going into effect.  “They have to balance out their trade, No. 1,” the president said Sunday. Trump has long touted tariffs as a way to prevent other nations from ripping America off economically, but this didn’t seem to be an issue on Monday. 

Republicans and the Trump administration have long touted Trump as an expert dealmaker, capable of giving his adversaries the runaround with little effort. In light of the brief trade dispute, conservative media hailed Trump as a conquering victor over America’s North American neighbors. “Canada is bending the knee, just like Mexico,” said White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt. 

Rep. Warren Davidson (R-Ohio) struggled to defend Trump’s deal with Canada and Mexico as a win for the president during an interview on CNN later in the day. 

“Is there a tangible concession in your view?” host Kaitlan Collins asked. 

“Yeah, absolutely,” Davidson replied, noting the supposed “commitment from Trudeau that wasn’t there to help with fentanyl.”

Collins pointed out that that plan had actually been announced “six weeks ago.” 

“Well, at least he’s reiterated it,” Davidson demured. 

The tactic by Trump is obvious: work nations and investors into a frenzy over a potential trade dispute that would actively harm Americans, only to swoop in at the last moment and cast himself as a master negotiator and savior of the populace.

[-] tomatolung@sopuli.xyz 18 points 5 months ago

Try How do I pass cookie to yt-dlp.

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[-] tomatolung@sopuli.xyz 19 points 5 months ago

While I have little doubt they are spending many millions on it, I sort of doubt it's billions of euros. They link a telegram source, which talks about German Intelligence. Not impossible, but not an easily verifiable source.

Someone correct me if I'm wrong.

It just seems rather unlikely they are spending that much on disinformation when the have a real and present war in front of them with huge hardware/personnel loss, and have a waning treasury.

[-] tomatolung@sopuli.xyz 23 points 6 months ago

Anyone else think this needs a sub of it's own as well?

[-] tomatolung@sopuli.xyz 18 points 6 months ago

Well, he's not wrong technically, but the context feels like it's obviously missing. We have no Saturn V vehicles anymore, nor can we build them again. Starship might require that many launches to get to TLI, but with reusability, it probably can. Not to mention that the cost will come down a bit. So it can at least do it soon.

I'm sure others have more coherent and thought out rebuttals.

[-] tomatolung@sopuli.xyz 20 points 7 months ago

Look to history for some answers.

The Denver Post had a opinion piece that talked about how America has seen something like this before.

The Gilded Age, the tumultuous period between roughly 1870 and 1900, was also a time of rapid technological change, of mass immigration, of spectacular wealth and enormous inequality. The era got its name from a Mark Twain novel: gilded, rather than golden, to signify a thin, shiny surface layer. Below it lay the corruption and greed that engulfed the country after the Civil War.

The era survives in the public imagination through still resonant names, including J.P. Morgan, John Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie and Cornelius Vanderbilt; through their mansions, which now greet awestruck tourists; and through TV shows with extravagant interiors and lavish gowns. Less well remembered is the brutality that underlay that wealth — the tens of thousands of workers, by some calculations, who lost their lives to industrial accidents, or the bloody repercussions they met when they tried to organize for better working conditions.

Also less well remembered is the intensity of political violence that erupted. The vast inequities of the era fueled political movements that targeted corporate titans, politicians, judges and others for violence. In 1892, an anarchist tried to assassinate industrialist Henry Clay Frick after a drawn-out conflict between Pinkerton security guards and workers. In 1901, an anarchist sympathizer assassinated President William McKinley. And so on.

As historian Jon Grinspan wrote about the years between 1865 and 1915, “the nation experienced one impeachment, two presidential elections ‘won’ by the loser of the popular vote and three presidential assassinations.” And neither political party, he added, seemed “capable of tackling the systemic issues disrupting Americans’ lives.” No, not an identical situation, but the description does resonate with how a great many people feel about the direction of the country today.

It’s not hard to see how, during the Gilded Age, armed political resistance could find many eager recruits and even more numerous sympathetic observers. And it’s not hard to imagine how the United States could enter another such cycle.

[-] tomatolung@sopuli.xyz 15 points 7 months ago

The responses to Ocasio-Cortez from split-ticket voters included:

  • "It's real simple… Trump and you care for the working class"
  • "Trump is going to get us the money and lets men have a voice. You're brilliant and have amazing passion!"
  • "I feel like Trump and you are both real."
  • "I know people that did this and it was bc of Gaza."
  • "You are focused on the real issues people care about. Similar to Trump populism in some ways."
  • "Because of Gaza"
  • "I voted Trump and dems because he reached out to Muslims"
[-] tomatolung@sopuli.xyz 18 points 8 months ago

Anyone know how much of the oil transported is actually used for plastic, percentage wise?

[-] tomatolung@sopuli.xyz 18 points 8 months ago

**What they're saying: **Rep. Carlos Gimenez (R-Fla.), who represents a Hurricane-prone district in South Florida, replied to one of Greene's posts writing, "NEW FLASH —> Humans cannot create or control hurricanes."

  • "Anyone who thinks they can, needs to have their head examined," he added – a biting direct rebuke of a fellow House Republican.

Why yes please examine all of our Congressional heads. Also what da fk have they been ingesting? In the word of AvE, focus you f#k!

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