Does it make me a bad person that every time I hear a demand for respect, I actually hear a demand for “respec’ “ delivered by the kind of street gangster who beats his girlfriend up as recreation? (View Post)

Your IP address(es) (unless you have a fixed IP, it will change over time) are matched to your email address when you *do* sign up for stuff. This info is then sold to everyone else. Along with a vas… (View Post)

Worth reading https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/opinion/tolkien-grief-lord-rings.html Tolkien & the nature of grief and loss (View Post)

Japan has long had a peculiar type of nuclear deterrent. They have large quantities of reprocessed plutonium and a stockpile of highly enriched uranium. All monitored and inspected by the internation… (View Post)

Th The inability to cool the electronics and radar in the Nimrod AWACS was one of the more entertaining aspects of the design. Essentially, it could use the radar (and computers) until the fuel tempe… (View Post)