A lot of what the other comments have said is right, but also add that to on top of all the layoffs theyve had and they keep telling their devs to double their efforts. Its been in so many meetings that at this point a single engineer should be able to do the work of the whole company…

the shareholders keep demanding doubling pace from their engineers but they just wont listen smh

They should just fire all the engineers already theyre clearly slacking off /s

Thats not at all what I said though? I said that whoever is crossing that invisible line is risking their lives and they probably know it. And if that is the case and people have to cross that line to go fish and then that warship is just randomly picking off boats then yes it is absolutely terrorism.

My possibly incorrect assumption is that those boats that got hit were the only ones going that far away. If there are more and these are the only ones randomly getting hit then yeah that’s just terrorism.

I guess I assumed they were the only ones going out that far and taking the risk. But its more likely just the ones that looked more “suspicious” to them with no real positive identification that they are doing anything wrong.

Right, but the people going out must know the risk they are taking at this point right? What is so important that they’re risking their lives with this? None of it adds up for me.

Edit: going out and taking that risk screams doing it under duress. But then there would be evidence right?

OK, for real though, why is this happening? Is it all around Venezuela? Or is it just random boats around central America?

If it’s just Venezuela, then surely these people that are “fishing” know there’s a big ass warship shooting them out of the water if they stray too far from the coast. (I say it in quotes because it just doesn’t add up to me.)

None of this makes sense to me.

If they are carrying drugs, surely there’s leftover debris that can prove it, that can be retrieved after the fact.

Also yeah, whatever the reason, this is not the way to carry out an operation like this. Immobilize the vehicle, stop them and take them to interpol or whatever maritime authority there is on international waters.

I mean sure, but the US is also starving it’s own citizens right now as well.

Again? Argentina has never been great.

Has the US killed any journalists yet? I know that they roughed some up to the point of landing them in the hospital, but I haven’t heard of any deaths.

Ah yes cause the pot calling the kettle black is usually the trustworthy one.

Fwiw I don’t know who to believe in this one. They’re both massive liars.

They will become “The Fractured But Whole”

You touched on the big problem the US has. The energy grid is ancient.

Name checks out. But also wtf is wrong with you?

“Hunter Biden did it, why can’t we?”

Is that accurate though? Assume a satellite is in a decaying orbit (thus too low to contribute to Kessler syndrome on its own) and another satellite is in a different orbit eccentricity-wise but they both collide. Are we certain that none of the pieces from the collision would acquire enough speed to become boloids that contribute to Kessler syndrome?

Time to go down the rabbit hole that is orbital mechanics for me again. Byeeee lol

Edit: looks like the lowest orbit for starlink’s first shell is at 550km which is very much above VLEO and would definitely be a factor in Kessler Syndrome.

Most starlink satellites are set to deorbit themselves upon failure to avoid this. However the de orbiting could still fail and then it should take about a year or so to deorbit itself?

So it looks like there is a low possibility of it initiating Kessler syndrome. But it’s not negligible.

This reminds me of Hydra’s “Compliance will be rewarded”

“New” and “All” disagree. Respectfully.

I’m your neighbor.

The lines between fact (…) and opinion can be blurry at times

Are they though?