Is this odd? Most cars have had several recalls, and if you have never taken your car in for recall work, you need to go look up what work was (not) done on your VIN and take care of it. Lots of cars are still out there with claymores for airbags, make sure your car isn’t among them.

https://www.nhtsa.gov/recalls

Let’s wait and see what happened specifically. But I will say, the US does love their…proportional responses.

Thank you for the extra info. I’ll edit the title since it isn’t confirmed.

rather than just being normal and evaluating the law on ‘does it seem normal or moral to ban this’

This is the job of the legislature. To make law based on norms and morals, as well as a dozen other factors.

almost like ConStITuTUiOnALiTy is a dumb fucking way validate the law

The job of the judiciary is to rule based on what the various laws say, which obviously includes the Constitution.

Do you really want the judiciary ignoring the law and legislating from the bench? Remember, your preferred group isn’t the one in the majority.

It’s good they are continuing to stamp down on corruption. It is what you want to see.

I have never seen this shit within the last few decades in a Western military. Everyone there believes a CASEVAC will get them to a hospital where they will be saved. Even if it can’t always happen, it is the norm to do one’s best to save people, not just give up in the first seconds.

I think they got this one! Hard to tell behind the massive explosion though!

Man, no hesitation on the wounded invader. Went straight from being fine, to wanting his buddy to kill him.

I was going to say people can play Shattered Horizon instead. But apparently that one died at some point.

Damn, how many are they getting now? There have been something like a half dozen of such announcements in the last two weeks.

It appears to be nothing more than a reckless gesture to piss off the Russians.

What is Russia going to do, invade Ukraine?

Ukraine has been firing Himars, Storm Shadows and other Western supplied weapons into Russia — primarily Belgorod and Crimea

1. Crimea is occupied Ukrainian territory, not Russian territory

2. Ukraine was not firing HIMARS-based missiles, Storm Shadows, and other Western supplied weapons into Belgorod. That is the whole policy change here. No longer is Ukraine expected to just take punches and be barred from shooting at the aggressor. Now they can use western supplied weapons to destroy Russian assets in Russia.

Note how we are talking about how large of douchebags the activists are and just how much they damaged a cultural heritage site.

Fuck these people.

Even Level 1 charging is pretty notable, means the vast majority of your daily miles still come from charging at home. This should be achievable if you have an outside plug and an outdoor extension cable.

Though, I suspect from your statement even that isn’t possible due to ownership issues.

Hydrofoils have never taken off outside of tiny niches. Changing the propulsion from gas to electric does nothing for any of the advantages or disadvantages of hydrofoils other than making the disadvantage of ‘the boat must be as light as possible’ even worse.

A ferry is also one of the worst applications for a hydrofoil possible. Underwater debris like grass is a much larger problem and they have a massively increased draft when traveling at slow speed. Both of these are most acute when when pulling into dock near a shoreline…to ferry things.

Ah, crap, that I do. I should look at a map whenever I talk about them. It’s stored in my head in this fashion:

• Russia’s buddy is in the west and gets disputed land taken by guy in the east.
• Both countries start with ‘A’ and are near Turkey.

The fun part is Russia leads the CSTO, which is the same type of organization as NATO. However, three members have left it, including Azerbaijan Armenia just this year as Russia failed to hold up their commitment when Article 4 (equivalent to NATO’s Article 5) was called when Armenia Azerbaijan took land Russia considered Azerbaijan’s Armenia’s in late 2022.

Edit: Flipped the names. They are now correct.

The amount of people justifying calling it global warming is still is kinda shocking to be honest.

I was told for decades by activists and global leaders it was global warming. For example, An Inconvenient Truth says global warming dozens of times. Are you now telling me those people were wrong?

Fuck these people.

Y’all remember gif sound? Had this audio playing while I watching the above video. Gave it a very ‘shit went bad 20 years ago’ feel.

Also, that thing has been burning all damn day? I saw they were putting it out with what appeared to be just water in one of the earlier videos. Guess they decided to let it burn through the entire fuel supply.

Switzerland’s arms industry is having a rough time right now. It’s the largest war in Europe since WWII and Switzerland is telling their customers their military equipment and ammo cannot be used in the war. Customers are rightfully wondering what the point of Swiss arms are if they cannot be used and are ordering from other countries instead.

Check out this chart of arms orders and deliveries for 2022-2023. Lots of small countries like South Korea are getting huge boosts in orders; Switzerland isn’t anywhere near the top. Screenshot is from Perun’s video on the change in global arms exports as a result of Russia’s invasion.