Patriot isn’t limited to missile interception.

They said, while Russia is literally in the middle of doing the sort of invasion NATO is warning against.

As long as the money is there to grift, people will do so.

He’s actually trying to kill the giant underground spiders

Congratulations, you are being adopted.

Please do not resist.

Finally some good fuckin titties

China has a working HSR system connecting all their major cities. The fact that their population scale is so massive means they also try weird shit to get what they can.

Japan is very narrow but it’s also very long. The actual amount of miles a train much cover from one end to the other is very large.

Yes the EU is not one country (though it is a polity). That should make it harder, not easier to cover it with rail, and yet there’s rail lines connecting all the major cities crossing national borders. Does the “size” counter reset once you cross a line on the map?

It’s not the size, it’s the political organization. You even hint at this when describing how we paved America: the political and economic configuration was aligned to make it happen despite the massive cost. The USA was crisscrossed by passenger rail and street cars, and still is for cargo. We just took a different path later, but it doesn’t actually have to be that way.

China has tons of it.

So does Russia.

Japan isn’t “small” (it’s the length of California) and has tons of it.

The EU is pretty big and all interconnects.

Size isn’t the issue. It certainly hasn’t prevented us from paving half our country.

So instead of what you originally said (that we magicked up extra money for Ukraine), your argument is that we’re using money that we spent anyway, and would keep spending regardless in order to maintain our global standing? Very persuasive.

Literally just old shit we had in the closet. It’s not pallets of cash, it’s the value of the old equipment that we no longer need to store.

Subsistence farming. However:

1. Farming blows

2. If everyone has to farm then no one can specialize to do other things

3. If you think the USA is a car-dependent sprawl that’s terrible for the environment currently, wait until literally everyone has enough land to sustain themselves and requires infrastructure to connect it all

She’s an independent now. She quit the party.

Apple users do have a choice. Apple isn’t the only game in town. If those users disagree with Apple and want Tate shit, they can use a different platform.

It also works pretty well on desktop as a PWA. This is how it looks as a PWA on the macOS 14 beta.

Whatever you decide, pics or it didn’t happen 😉

You should strive for the body you want, not what others want. If bigger boobs better match how you see yourself, then absolutely go for it. But do it for you, not us. It’s like trans people having work done to better match how they feel inside; it’s not really about others, it’s how about they feel when they look in a mirror and what they see matches their mental model. Do what you feel is right.

Centralized communities all turn into what Twitter and Reddit became eventually. They benefits for the owners (money, control) are too great to ignore forever once you’re big enough. Decentralized communities have more resilience, provided no individual server gets too big.

Podcasts seem to have figured out monetizing without centralization.

That’s enough internet for today

There’s a wealth of options between suburban sprawl and 50 story towers of 300 sqft apartments.

https://missingmiddlehousing.com/

Further: legalizing density doesn’t mean that you personally are forced into them. There will always be a market for detached single family homes, especially if you don’t value being in a city anyway.