Skyrmir @ Skyrmir @lemmy.world

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it usually takes 10 years to build a nuclear submarine. 5 to 7 years just for construction. Putin is building to attack in less than 4.

Someone needs a time machine.

Better bet would be just a bigger motor, or gas power if you can plane. Two motors need a rudder or coordinated pivots that get finicky to mess with.

Something else, very similar motif. It's a sci-fi pulp novel.

I think the story neuromancer had workers who would show up have their brain chip turn them into meat puppets for 8 hours then they would wake up not knowing what they had done to earn their checks. It was a cheap labor scheme for day workers or prostitutes. I still think that's really the capitalist goal.

Harvard will have to find a pool of sympathetic lawyers to press their case in the courts. Wherever can the most prestigious college in the legal world for the past century, find a lawyer? And it'll have to be affordable, they only have $53 billion to work with.

Harvard doesn't need outside income to cover operations of the school. Not even tuition. The government contracts cover expanded research and programs. The schools endowment grows enough to cover all their base costs and still grow annually.

REITs are fine, but they do need strong regulation. They're best when targeted at building high density housing, but can be used to develop single family suburbs.

The key is that you have to time limit their ownership of single family homes, and require the sale to individuals. That forces them to build and sell, they make money, the market expands, houses stay affordable. For high density buildings they have to be limited to a portion of the area market, including all corporate owners. Which again forces them to build and sell, and also keeps competition in the market, to avoid price fixing.

It will be. They have immunity. It's entirely performative intimidation.

By federal marshals who don't give a fuck. Because they already did it to a state judge, they'll go after federal next.

There are less than 2000 federal judges, the Federalist Society has over 70,000 members. They have the man power and motivation to replace them over night. At which point the law says what the fuck they want it to.

What's stopping them isn't that they lack the resources to seize total control. It's that they lack the resources to maintain control. And they're never going to have them.

They're expecting the judges to push back so they have an excuse to get rid of the judges.

I said nothing about being disarmed, or losing.

Holy crap, is that a tariff price or are they WAY too proud?

Of course it is, Bezos is selling 8647 merch right now and there's not a peep about it.

Pretty sure I pull up with a semi full of fertilizer and I'd be their bestest friend.

I didn't say armed resistance doesn't work. I said your gun isn't going to work.

If the government comes for me, they're bringing more people than I can shoot. The first answer to that, is to prevent that from happening through political action. The second is that you don't respond to that with a gun.

Everyone on Ruby ridge was armed, everyone in Waco was armed. They're all dead for their troubles. A gun won't fix that problem.

The GoP needed a cultural political weapon. So they picked the weakest minority, gays and trans people. To use as a distractions, while they rob the public and destroy the country.

They're looting on the way out. America is already cooked, this is the wealthy squeezing the last drops of wealth out.

I don't know, every time I drink that much I forget.