If you think that’ll stop them, I have a bridge to sell you. In case you hadn’t noticed, the law doesn’t mean anything any more to the people in power.

I dropped Reddit when it was announced that you could be banned for upvoting something.

Luigi is also, in all probability, innocent.

Which means the Claims Adjuster is still at large.

Turns out giving him free reign with something that actually has a bigger impact than his own companies had consequences he doesn’t like.

Nah, dissidents are just going to get disappeared to El Salvador. That way they can still be used for slave labor!

Honestly, it’s old tech. There were guide-by-wire missiles for a long time before this.

75 years later, lesbians still dress this way…

Well, as it turns out, America’s status as an economic juggernaut has always been dependent on keeping our occupied territory as shitholes that are terrible for the people who live there, so we can exploit their labor and resources. We learned well from the British Empire. The shitholeness is just being turned against a larger swath of our population now.

Oh no!

Anyways…

Well you see, there’s a simple explanation for this. When we do it, it’s good, and when you do it, it’s bad.

Everyone except for the people who get sent to El Salvador…

It’s possible to have a poor opinion of the Chinese government without having a bigoted opinion about the Chinese people.

Yup! Totally plausible - just more expensive and less repeatable. And harder to use against moving targets.

Although you are correct, this destroys the engine.

A good, efficient fusion engine just needs to point the exhaust end towards the enemy and the hyper-accelerated particles will punch a hole through the target for you. And then you point at the next target, etc. etc.

Also, it’s a butchered quote from Larry Niven’s Known Space books, referred to as the “Kzinti Lesson” - because the Kzinti thought humanity was unarmed and helpless until they discovered that humans are really good at improvising weapons.

Even if they do know, they almost certainly are buying into the ‘he’s a criminal and deserves to be deported’ bit.

Sigh. Yet another article assuming Mangione’s guilt. Ben Burgis didn’t even bother to say ‘allegedly’ anywhere.

…thanks, I think…

The usefulness of a fusion engine as a weapon is directly correlated to its efficiency.

Even consoles these days require you to install files onto the machine before it’ll play…

Part of this is likely to be because with how stupidly car-focused the infrastructure is, revoking someone’s license to drive is essentially revoking someone’s right to autonomy.