• ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works
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    11 months ago

    I don’t think that’s actually real.

    Also a fun fact: Sea Sparrows are some of the missiles used in Ukraine for air defense right now. They’re launching then from Soviet land-based anti-aircraft vehicles somehow.

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      They’re launching then from Soviet land-based anti-aircraft vehicles somehow.

      When they do this, it’s called a Sea Spaciva. 😏

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            All I’m saying is, it’s not a matter of fuel efficiency, it’s a simple matter of weight ratios. A one ton missile cannot be manufactured and deployed without a comparably sized carbon footprint.

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      I have not done this but: literally search the post word for word. Weird to just throw out “I don’t think this is real” like we’re in the woods in 1945 and a plane accidentally dropped a ream of newspapers saying the Nazis surrendered.

  • Five@slrpnk.net
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    What, does it only target LearJet and Gulfstream private aircraft?

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    You can read this in Robert Evans’ voice and it’s just as sarcastic as anything he’s said about them

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    To be fair, people and airplanes are very bad for the environment.

    I wouldn’t be surprised if a tactical nuke was a net positive for the environment.

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        Plenty of things will survive it, and the removal of the humans in the area may be a net positive.

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            Few months/years. The radioactive isotopes created in the explosion have a short half life. Both Hiroshima and Nagasaki are thriving cities today.

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              Both Hiroshima and Nagasaki are thriving cities today.

              That contradicts the whole point that a nuke will destroy humans but leave the environment intact. A bomb of any kind destroys ecosystems. If humans reclaim the cities, it’s not a “net positive” for the environment, despite the cynicism that’s in the statement.

              “Land back” is a much better approach since land under indigenous jurisdiction has much more biodiversity than average and especially than bombed land.

  • Ghyste@sh.itjust.works
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    I hate that this isn’t a meme.

    Ed: lolol 300+ mindless upvotes and the poster is the sub mod. Awesome.

    Why do communities exist if people are going to dump everything in one place and are rewarded for doing so?

    • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.net
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      It’s a meme insofar as the definition of

      an element of a culture or system of behavior passed from one individual to another by imitation or other nongenetic means.

      Information is one of the elements. This is information and it is being passed around by non genetic means.

  • Alien Nathan Edward@lemm.ee
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    `Frank, the new CEO had to answer to the board.

    The board was getting anxious, and the shareholders were

    on a bed, legs in air, ass-cheeks open wide

    They were about to get fucked like it was their first time.

    When one makes 20 million, ten thousand people lose.

    What keeps that one from swallowing a shotgun?

    Dan, the company man, felt loyalty to the corp.

    After 16 years of service, and a family to support

    He actually started to believe

    the weaponry and chemicals were for national defense.

    'Cause Danny had a mortgage, and a boss to answer to.

    The guilty don’t feel guilty, they learn not to.

    Helen is living in her car, trying to feed her kids.

    She got laid off at work, and her house was repossessed.

    It’s hard to think clearly when it’s 38 degrees.

    Desperate people have been known to render desperate deeds.

    But when she shot that family and moved into their home,

    The paper read she suffered from dementia.`

    —NOFX - The Irrationality of Rationality

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    Well weapons are going to be made and used anyway, it’s better if they’re environmentally friendlier I suppose

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    I’m calling bullshit. The Internet Archive snapshot for the RaytheonTech Twitter page on 2021-09-07 does not show this tweet between tweets dated 2023-08-19 and 2023-09-01.