The strategy to fuck with a class action lawsuit is to fuck with the lawyers leading the class action lawsuit.

… This is how you get another class action lawsuit, which is comprised entirely of lawyers.

Jesus Fucking Christ, these people are idiots.

When you live in a police/surveillance state, you’re a fool to fear criminals more than the government.

My comment got more updoots, but you deserve just as many.

My guess?

NSA is currently figuring out how to insert backdoors into all these things.

You see, the last backdoor they used all the time, well… people figured it out.

So, they had to ban uh, checks notes, apparently all routers, basically.

So, now they need a new backdoor into literally everything.

Well, there’s this:

https://www.statista.com/chart/32350/greenhouse-gas-emissions-by-mode-of-transport/

… but a ferry is not a cruise ship.

I would imagine they would be lower on this chart than the cruise ship, cruise ships are kind of notorious amongst ship types as being just obscenely resource intensive / wasteful…

… but basically outside of WA/BC… there just aren’t that many ferry systems in North America, whereas they are more common elsewhere…

Maybe there are more/better studies done in Japanese, Korean, etc, that focus on the kinds of tech and ships and fuels used in ferry systems around there?

The number you’d get out of the kind of calculation there, it could change a lot based on the overall design / route / intended speed of the ship, the kind of engine used (it could potentially have a hyrbid electrical drive system), the blend of fuel used, etc etc.

They are legitimate military targets, they are acting as comms relay servers for military strikes/operations against Iran, and are very likely also being used to do threat analysis / kill chain assignment tasks.

This is what you get for becoming part of the military industrial complex, tech bros.

This needs more updoots.

It is a seriously fantastic mod, has a great soundtrack, just all around awesome.

For whatever reason, a significant number of flat earthers also believe that the Moon is some kind of a fake hologram and/or emits ‘cold light’, or something like that.

Alternate explanation:

She was basically a tsundere, and attempting to flirt with you.

She insulted your nose because either:

A) She is very vain and hates the idea of finding another person attractive and thus had to work some random snide comment in there, happened to be your nose.

B) Basically the same, but she was actually particularly fascinated by your nose, she found it quite appealing, and being a vain tsundere, specifically insulted it, because she is jealous of it.

2 is almost, sort of, kind of, technically true, from a certain point of view.

Not by way of steering, but by way of slowing down to take turns at safe speeds, which is done by some form a control mechanism, which may be or resemble a wheel.

I am crippled and don’t get out much these days…

… but I do remember having to actually explain to a 20ish yo woman that no, chocolate milk does not infact come from brown cows.

Most of the conversation was me assuming she was fucking with me.

Nope. She was dead serious.

Malignant narcissist.

At this point I’m convinced this is functionally a heritable trait, either directly via genetetics, or by way of conditioning, generational trauma.

And maybe add in a thin layer of pure lead.

… do not lick the lead.

distressed squidward noises

omfg, BlueSky continues to just knock it out of the park.

Incredible.

It was like less than a week or two ago I was trying to explain that BlueSky is just rainbow capitalism, that is centralized, and will censor you, just give it time.

A year ago some goober was extremely convinced that it was totally possible and not actually that difficult to set up your own Relay, so, it actually is federated and decentralized the same way Lemmy or Mastadon are!

Year later, nobody has gotten around to doing it.

And now it has a hallucinatory theft powered autocomplete machine… that… ostensibly exists… to… manage their feeds.

Because apparently that is so complex or difficult that it… needs an assistant?

And this was made by a former member of the board who apparently just left so that he could focus in his side project, which is totally different from BlueSky, but also only works with BlueSky.

Just chef’s kiss, mwah.

We need a ‘Fell for it Again’ meme variant for turbolibs.

There’s 0 difference between TwitterBrains and RedditMods.

Well ok, TwitterBrains are better at scamming people, at least they’re getting paid.

… I miss Tom.

Just bring back MySpace ‘Classic’.

Good luck getting the exposure values on that to come out right.

Duck! … And Cover!

https://youtube.com/watch?v=IKqXu-5jw60

If your brain has enough time to process actually seeing a mushroom cloud, well, that means you were far enough away from the blast that you were not evaporated or otherwise fucked up by the initial explosion.

Otherwise, you would have felt or been destroyed by that first, before the mushroom cloud have even formed, before you could have possibly seen it.

So, if you are able to see a mushroom cloud, before you hear or feel a nuclear explosion, that means that you may actually have moments to scramble to find cover, and that may actually protect you from the blast/pressure/heat wave that has not hit you yet, as well as the immense, sucking/updraft winds that will be created by… essentially the hole that a nuclear explosion punches in the atmosphere.

Also, “fun fact”, you wanna know something reported by soldiers at nuclear tests and the Japanese at Hiroshima and Nagasaki?

When the bomb goes off, … even if you close your eyes, look away from the blast… you can still see your own bones, if you’re holding your hands/arms to shield your eyes.

There is so much radiation flying around that you get momentary xray vision.

https://inews.co.uk/inews-lifestyle/nuclear-bomb-bright-bones-fingers-atomic-veterans-2-1930293

“We were told to put on long trousers and a long-sleeved shirt,” he says, “and we had these dark goggles which meant you couldn’t see your hand in front of you. Then we had to go and sit on the football pitch with our backs to the detonation, because if we’d faced it, the fireball would have burned our eyes.

“When the bomb went off, it was so bright that I could see the spine and ribs of the guy sitting a metre in front of me, like an X-ray. I put my hands over my eyes and could see the bones in my fingers, and could see the blood pumping around my hands. It was 4am but the sky turned blue, like it was daytime. The blast was like the sound of a pistol, except 1,000 times louder. After the fireball, a couple of minutes later, you feel the blast and a strong gust of very hot wind – if you had no shirt on it feels like it would burn through your back – then once the fireball starts to dissipate you get the mushroom cloud.”

That’s just one recollection I can find via quick websearch, but there are numerous accounts of this ‘momentary xray vision’ effect happening, UK, US soldiers, Japanese, etc.

EDIT

The … HL2 Mod -> 10+ years of development -> Indie Game G STRING arguably does a fairly decent portrayal of experiencing the effects of a nuclear detonation, in sequence.

It just does a screen flash bang instead of the whole x ray vision thing, but the order of events is roughly correct.

Flash, white out, people screaming from both being irradiated and the shock, gigantic visible second sun …

… lull of time where power transformers are heard exploding due to the EMP …

… massive pressure/blast/heat front hits, random shit is thrown away from the blast, more people screaming as they are now being incinerated …

… then the wind direction changes and random shit is now sucked toward the explosion, which by now has more or less assumed the form of a proper mushroom cloud.

Uh, I guess potential [Content Warning], this may or may not qualify as nightmare fuel.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=X8suBOMnGFQ

I think the scene has been tweaked a bit in the current game since this 4 year old video, but uh yeah.

I was talking about the ‘and then sue them’ part.

Sueing someone… is an ‘offensive’ legal action, its something you initiate, not ‘defend’ against.

Right, because everyone can afford those legal fees.

And its sure to be worth the time and money, netted out.

My entire point is that you are just overgeneralizing, in general, and saying rather silly things.