nxdefiant

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[–] nxdefiant@startrek.website 7 points 5 months ago

There's an earlier bit that complements that nicely:

"it turns out that the core competency of smiling and promising people things that you can't actually deliver is highly transferable."

[–] nxdefiant@startrek.website 6 points 5 months ago

what the fuck are you gonna do the first time something makes it up the stairs? I hope you have a flamethrower ready.

[–] nxdefiant@startrek.website 11 points 5 months ago (5 children)

I stole one of those huge rolls from college once. It dispenses just fine on the floor.

[–] nxdefiant@startrek.website 46 points 5 months ago (3 children)

There are so many Java libraries that I would probably set on fire if they were physically tangible in any way.

[–] nxdefiant@startrek.website 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

More than just one, but yeah, the "overall flow" is set in law by acts of Congress, and only an act of Congress can stop that flow, not the executive branch.

[–] nxdefiant@startrek.website 10 points 5 months ago

Like a bowl of menudo gone rancid.

[–] nxdefiant@startrek.website 2 points 5 months ago (3 children)

There have been U S. officials that confirmed this has happened though.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/18/politics/blinken-confirms-pause-heavy-bombs-israel/index.html

I'm not even arguing that it's effective, just that it happened.

[–] nxdefiant@startrek.website 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (8 children)

But Biden has slowed weapon shipments to Israel, it's the only thing he can (legally, not politically) do since the aid is mandated by law and his executive power doesn't extend to negating laws.

[–] nxdefiant@startrek.website 4 points 5 months ago

First guy looks like hes from Silent Hil 2

[–] nxdefiant@startrek.website 5 points 5 months ago

ha! it's even better the second time.

[–] nxdefiant@startrek.website 7 points 5 months ago (9 children)

Awww I was going to make a "That's just what Yar looks like now" joke but you fixed it

[–] nxdefiant@startrek.website 2 points 5 months ago

That's true in general for everything he touches, but rockets are designed to overcome a lot of drag :)

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