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They got rid of their monarchs, so there’s noone left to tell them to eat cake

Yeah that i can see resulting in a death toll in the hundred thousands

killed hundreds of thousands of civillians

A total of 563 strikes, largely by drones, targeted Pakistan, Somalia and Yemen during Obama’s two terms

100.000/563 = 177
Goddamn what kinds of missiles/bombs were those drones packing? Were they dropping nuclear warheads?

Hey don’t be mean, the pedophiles in charge of running the country are doing the best they can :(

companies starts collecting personal data
People: “I don’t care what [company] knows about me”
data ends up in the hands of the surveillance state
people:

Both top AND bottom text?
Yeah no i’m not reading this /j

That qualifies as healthcare in the US

I know, QuinShi was the one i was critiquing since they were trying to correct you when it was really just them not understanding your original comment

Then you didn’t understand what was being said and should reread it.

yeah i did actually read it multiple times to make sure i didn’t misread it, did you?

Edit: misread the comment thought the were making the quoted point.

Let’s double check before making accusations next time

Based on their edit it wasn’t, they had misread the original comment

Exactly, that’s why it was weird of the commenter to object to someone saying that socialism isn’t “You won’t need to do any work and still get money” with “you should read some theory” as if socialist theory said that that was exactly what socialism is

Nope

So you’re saying that noone does any work in socialist countries? They wouldn’t last many days if that was the case

I’m sorry Will, looks like it’s no longer rewind time 😞

Yeah the first issue is in theory solvable, but they never managed to do it, not in a practical manner at least (huge cryocooled superconductors is probably not very practical)

The forces are from the immense magnetic fields, two parallel wires with current in opposite directions will repel eachother, so the rails are trying to move apart from eachother

This plus the heat causing material expansion plus the rails needing to be very straight for it all to work, and you end up having a bit of an engineering headache on your hands

But yeah it’s mainly when you build large ones meant to fire things at really really high speeds, maybe we’ll find a way to improve it one day, but for now it’s sadly dead in the water (in the military sector at least, but they tend to be the main driving force behind technology that fires things)

The issue is that large scale railguns tend to self destruct, either from the heat or from the immense forces, so it can only fire a few shots before it needs extensive maintenance, and the time it takes to recharge is quite long in most practical applications (warships and such) which is why the american military has given up on the concept.

For launching stuff you have the same issues, except you now the payload isn’t a solid piece of metal but an intricate component which somehow needs to survive the insane acceleration (unless you use a really long barrel)

Well now it’s more “Food stamps? No foodstamps for you!”

Can confirm, I had a laptop that took multiple minutes to boot and was sluggish as hell, installed linux and after that it booted in 5-10 seconds and felt snappy again

Syncthing

One mankinds trash is another alienkinds treasure