The “DEFCON” (defense condition) system is a threat-display, now, but during the early cold war it was important.
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All the unbuffered error messages
The “DEFCON” (defense condition) system is a threat-display, now, but during the early cold war it was important.
Holy Pinker, Batman! The world is a vastly better place than we knew. Because: war.
I’m a bit over the moon, if not “at the Lagrange Point” about this.
Mitchell and Webb are the source of the fantastic “Are we the baddies?” sketch. But this one seems a bit more appropriate for the pandemic billionaire era.
I’m pretty sure everyone makes that joke, when they are talking about a boring bar.
Someone over at PZ’s, in a comment, mentioned “confederate flag toilet paper.”
The surveillance state has done a great job of conditioning our social response to what amounts to a massive violation of the constitution. Of course nobody cares. The information has been dropped in a way that nobody really understands it, and that is quite deliberate.
When I was in 9th grade, I was propagandized, and I don’t mind.
[Content Warning: Crash, Personal injury not visible, F-35]
I have really been going to town on the Tides of History podcast. Wow, it’s interesting.