Yeah. Like make some of the best films in the last 40 years. DAMN YOU COCAINE

I occasionally run a lathe at work. The big CNC one says it will do 10,000 rpm

If you ever run it that fast, the jaws will start to separate and the part will come flying out at Mach 4, bounce around the inside of the machine for several minutes, destroying the chuck, all the tooling, and the chip conveyor in the process.

Another fun fact, these machines go from 5000 rpm (the fastest you’re assuredly safe to run it) to 10 at the snap of a finger and back up again. All of that energy has to go somewhere. So there’s a heat coil, pretty much identical to the one in your oven, that takes all that extra energy. It doesn’t normally get all that hot, but if you’re running a lot of parts with a lot of diameter changes, it can get hot enough to glow.

What the fuck did I just read?

Am I having a stroke?

The difference between security and security theater.

Americans only do theater. They do actual security in Europe

The rock is quite useful as an industrial tool. It’s when you cut it in to a fancy shape and wear it that it’s pretty useless.

We use diamonds to test the hardness of materials, grind really hard things smaller, orient and locate specialized cutting tools, and cut through really hard things. Hell we sell garnet by the barrel to help cut through regular materials. Orderly carbon or, in many cases orderly aluminum oxide, is something we need a lot of. The price going down on those is actually good for manufacturing.

I wasn’t kidding in the slightest. If the DoD had executed the second Iraq invasion it would have taken a few days. But Rumsfeld and his croneys insisted on it being done their way, and they didn’t know shit about fuck when it came to warfare. (Note: this may have been because Rumsfeld was lying and committing crimes that, had the military done things the way they wanted, would have been exposed.)

Don’t worry. The US may have the most experienced, well funded, and outfitted military on the planet, but the bafoons at the top keep getting in the way of the military executing a war the way it wants to.

See: Iraq 2, WMD boogaloo, or the cult classic Vietnam: Congress goes to war.

The current court has already done that for abortion. You think they won’t do it again?

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Trump thinks a coat of arms is a jacket made of weapons that he can buy

Heyyyy then we got mild socialism that kinda worked until a conservative court overturned all of the most effective reforms in favor of business…

IS going to run out of water. Not HAS run out of water.

And we know. We been warning yall fucks for years that the aquifer ain’t filling back up and gotdangit they just keep paying us to grow corn on land that ain’t suited for growing beans. And everybody knows corn and sorghum ain’t no good for the soil neither.

Joking aside, we’ll deal with that impending apocalypse like we’ll deal with all the other ones. By pretending it isn’t happening.

Y’all damn coastals with yer big fancy oceans. WE GOT OCEANS TOO WE JUST KEEP EM UNDERGROUND SO THEY DON’T SCARE MEEMAW.

Everybody knows meemaw’s ascared of the deep water. And when she gets agitated she gets to her whippin stick.

He should shove it up his ass.

I don’t want it to be quick and painless for him

If Trump de If the US tried, it would be like chopping both of its legs and then one of the arms.

Well they DO have the high ground…

North Korea is all about appearances, actual solutions aren’t important

I’m not saying it’s not worth ten dollars.

I just don’t feel like spending ten dollars.

Thank God it’s ten dollars.

I almost downloaded it.

If my kid is running a website and some fucking lawyer calls me about copyright bullshit, that fucker is getting 100% of my pent up salty rage.

I have a very particular set of skills, and they only make me a nightmare for a very specific type of situation.

Nonsense. I oppose the death penalty for almost all crimes. It’s just too easy to render an inaccurate verdict, and you can’t undo an execution.

But we don’t have any doubt about billionaires. They’re verifiably guilty beyond any shadow of a doubt.

I also think they should be able to avoid the death penalty by giving up their wealth and living on minimum wage for a number of years equal to the number of billions they captured and withheld from society.