Mike

Mike

@vnav.bsky.social

aviation nerd. amateur guitar player.

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seems to me humanoid robots are as idiotic as an airplane that flaps its wings like a bird. yeah it might work eventually but we already have better ways

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WHO GIVES A DAMN? It’s a public service, right there in the name. It exists as a public good for all the people in this country. It’s not supposed to turn a profit, you dolts. Go audit the Pentagon and see what kind of return on investment we’re getting there.

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The USPS faces a tight squeeze. With fewer people using the mail, it’s lost more and more money: $9 billion in the 12 months ending in September alone. https://cnn.it/4qkeNoF

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This is the autocrat’s perp walk—except that the alleged lawbreakers are rendered faceless. Opponents of the administration imagine they too might be labeled a gang member or supporter of terror. Admirers of the regime celebrate the grotesque show of power, not Justice. Questions may be dangerous.

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1/🧵 Judges across ideological lines are ruling against Trump at strikingly similar rates (84% liberal, 86% centrist, 82% conservative). This isn't partisan opposition to Trump—it's the judiciary functioning as intended by cutting across partisan lines to uphold the Constitution.

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Sometimes you get high and start waxing idiotic about how The Simpsons is about the journey from Judaism ("Abraham" Simpson) to Hellenism ("Homer" Simpson) and then finally to Christianity ("Bartholomew" Simpson) and then someone tells you to shut the fuck up, and they’re right to do so.

i saw a huge drone it was a hundred foot long tube with wings and two cfm56s on it and it said united on the side what's going on

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Kudos Pan Squares (1992-circa 1994): A spinoff of the classic Kudos Bar, this line of "homestyle snacks" featured thick, gooey square-shaped bars, in individually wrapped containers. Available in flavors such as chocolate-peanut butter, strawberries & cream, and peaches & cream

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the entire subject of raw milk makes me violently angry. like hulk out levels. there used to be a whole diagnosis called "cholera infantum" because thousands of babies shat themselves to death from raw industrial-dairy milk why would you want to bring that back!!!!

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reading orwell for the first time in middle age starting with burmese days thinking oh surely there is a redemption arc. oh wait what.

the left needs to do more explaining why when you get your car fixed they charge like 100/hr for labor but the mechanic makes like 30/hr and why that is. real basic shit. it worked on me when i was a card carrying libertarian

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