[-] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 1 points 4 hours ago

Even if they have the ability to build one, and do so without Russia turning the facility where they're building it into rubble with hypersonic missiles, they would need dozens to have full MAD type protection.

Does Ukraine even have a missile system capable of carrying that kind of payload as far as Moscow?

[-] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 15 points 4 hours ago

"don't worry about it being perfect" and "stop being so self critical"

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[-] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 84 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

See also, the Pauli effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauli_effect

The Pauli effect or Pauli's device corollary is the supposed tendency of technical equipment to encounter critical failure in the presence of certain people. The term was coined after mysterious anecdotal stories involving Austrian theoretical physicist Wolfgang Pauli, describing numerous instances in which demonstrations involving equipment suffered technical problems only when he was present.

An incident occurred in the physics laboratory at the University of Göttingen. An expensive measuring device, for no apparent reason, suddenly stopped working, although Pauli was in fact absent. James Franck, the director of the institute, reported the incident to his colleague Pauli in Zürich with the humorous remark that at least this time Pauli was innocent. However, it turned out that Pauli had been on a railway journey to Zürich and had switched trains in the Göttingen rail station at about the time of the failure.

R. Peierls describes a case when at one reception this effect was to be parodied by deliberately crashing a chandelier upon Pauli's entrance. The chandelier was suspended on a rope to be released, but it stuck instead, thus becoming a real example of the Pauli effect

[-] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 8 points 22 hours ago

This election was crazier than the last election. On the other hand it will be less crazy than the next election.

[-] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 3 points 1 day ago

You should have an option to change the default algo in your user settings.

[-] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 5 points 1 day ago

Eugene Debs ran for president while in federal prison for sedition, so it's not really unprecedented.

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[-] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 5 points 1 day ago

As someone who's been following him for some time, I think the article is a little doomerish. His stance on vaccines is troubling, but he's outlined policies he'd want to see, like capping drug prices and banning pesticides that are banned in europe, before https://www.wsj.com/opinion/trump-can-make-america-healthy-again-rfk-jr-reforms-chronic-disease-crisis-a9b4b8c0

[-] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 7 points 1 day ago

I get access denied from the link, here's an archive version for anyone that gets the same https://archive.ph/SSMPK

[-] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 10 points 1 day ago

Need more capacity for all the liberal tears?

[-] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 44 points 2 days ago

Meanwhile the CEO is paid nearly $7M a year.

[-] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 16 points 2 days ago

As a non-american, this seems unsurprising. The Harris campaign seemed to be running the same playbook as the Clinton one did. The main reason anyone gave for voting for her was not being trump, effectively making her the satus quo candidate. If everything is shit for you under the current status quo, that doesn't encourage you to vote for her.

[-] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 39 points 3 days ago

Do you think they made it a tie on purpose? They knew they had the chance to troll the entire country and took it, lol.

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