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How about polar bears?

Fortunately or not, both the UK and France have thermonuclear teeth to bite back if the totally-not-a-Tsar tries. And as far as the UK goes, it’s the same thermonuclear warheads, missiles and submarines as the USA, using the same procedures and with the same capabilities.

Sounds like you’re the goalposts-mover here, shipmate, and it seems the rest of the readers here agree with me. Maybe this place ain’t your venue.

It’s not necessarily imaging as in optics. Could be OPIR, encrypted comms, space to space ASAT, or any number of other things besides just earth imaging.

Those are amazing!

Maybe they’re talking about the fediverse or something? Idk.

It would totally make sense for some sailor to use it that way too after a night on liberty in port, but alas no.

Force of habit from almost a decade in the Navy, it’s a term of “endearment” that was intended by politicians and bureaucrats to be a “polite” term that can be universally applied regardless of rank, but is usually applied out of exasperation when actual insult isn’t warranted. Apologies for the unfamiliar term.

Shipmate, I’m pointing out that the system as it already stands is pretty much exactly as shit as they say it would become should the situation change. Each attempt to merely increase wages here and there is like putting a bandage on a gangrenous wound or a tumor, instead of realizing that the tumor itself needs to be surgically removed for all these symptoms - the American prison system, for-profit childcare, normalized hunger as a punishment for poverty and so on - to be actually treated. Believe it or not, I’m on your side.

How about

parents would have to pay for daycare, children would go without lunch, etc.

? Are parents not already forced to pay for daycare, children not already going without lunch?

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Pihole might help?

“Without them” implied that with them (status quo) the consequences listed would not be occurring.

Pretty sure no human lived at the Trinity test site or anywhere else in the test sites where weapons were detonated, especially at the moment of detonation. And I’m pretty sure none have since moved onto those sites either. Hence “inhabited”. It’s not like we nuked cities and towns.

Something something high seas something jellyfin

But that’s never how magic is depicted - it always takes decades of knowledge and learning or powerful enchanted artifacts forged from rare minerals and materials, and rituals which always name a price.

Modern magic can do all those things - if you have the right artifacts, likewise made of precious metals forged by lightning and etched with beams of sunfire and inlaid with gemstones from beyond the sea, fuelled by the ichor alchemically distilled from the remnants of ancient forests and carefully assembled by entire courts of white-robed magi who have each spent decades perfecting their deep knowledge of ritual and arcane lore.

With these artifacts, I can incinerate an entire room with a twitch of my finger upon a staff of fire summoning, read minds with a helm of probing, lightning people with a tiny wand of stunning, and conjure familiar from across the world to do my bidding on my black mirror for the small sacrifice of tiny particles of lightning in a distant runestone.

You mean everything you mention isn’t already happening in multiple states?

Didn’t say they weren’t entitled to know about it, just the reasoning that might’ve gone through the government’s collective heads when not disclosing or looking the other way on Boeing doing an Epstien.

American law

I mean there may simply have been internal reports already, just highly classified to avoid “embarrassing” the nation and not accessible or known to the general public.