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I had no idea he was such an iconic character. My buddy in high school was a gearhead and always had his nose in the latest copy of Jegs, so I was indirectly exposed to RF for years. Pretty cool to see he has a history all the way back to the '50s!

No true leftist would post this

In the current context, where we're explicitly talking about Epstein and his network of suppliers and customers, we can reasonably infer this and realize that it's a weird fucking time to lionize the celibate pedophile.

Those of us who lived through the Microsoft vs Linux debacle know that you don't need a large, popular distribution to manufacture a legal challenge. All you need is something that effectively undermines the opposition's legal basis.

I am not sure open source can reproduce the "LinkedIn experience". I'm also not sure that's a huge loss. That place is a dumpster fire on a steep hill.

It's the sort of move that might look like a clever reversal, but ultimately has a very steep price tag.

A blockade is an act of war, and this one is clearly pointed at the rest of the world, not Iran. It's predicated on the same faulty assumption that Trump's administration made when invading Iran: our military is unanswerable, and they will take it lying down.

Escalation paths from this are all bad-- what if an EU ship ignores challenges from a US Navy vessel, or China sends a military escort with a shipping fleet? Are we really about to start another shooting war, or will we stand there with our dicks in our hands as they sail by?

I'm thinking this brilliant idea is abandoned in a week.

Gosh, I wonder what Iran thinks about that idea? The article has this to say:

Any “joint venture” was not part of Iran’s 10-point peace plan that the U.S. agreed to and the president previously called “workable.”

And that's it! Guess this one is still in the "concept of a plan" phase.

“The lies linking me with the disgraceful Jeffrey Epstein need to end today,” she said, adding that “numerous fake images and statements about Epstein and me have been calculating [sic] on social media for years now”.

So this isn't about empowering the victims of Epstein's criminal enterprise to find justice, it's about punishing them for inconveniencing her?

That's utterly ghoulish. Jesus Christ, Melania.

That's not true! Trump's handlers are very good at picking people who are competent at funneling money into their own investments!

Space exploration is weight lifting for science.

More than fifty research and development facilities across thirty-one states. Gone. Consolidated into a single location in Fort Collins, Colorado. And “consolidated” is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that sentence, because what it actually means is that decades of place-based, long-term ecological research — the kind that literally cannot exist anywhere else because it depends on specific forests, specific watersheds, specific ecosystems studied over generations — will be snuffed out.

This is incredibly depressing, and leaves some huge questions I am afraid to even seek answers for. I worked alongside some brilliant, dedicated scientists stationed at Los Alamos-- does this mean that everyone there on behalf of the forest service is being moved to a desk in SLC?

It's plainly a mass firing dressed up as a re-org, and it will cripple our understanding of how to proactively address localized climate change for decades. Fuck.