Honestly, I could see an argument for China having a lower (relative to manufacturing capability) stockpile of missiles, since they have industrial capacity and they could just make more if they need them.

Campaigns should also honor opt-out requests if you reply “STOP.”

For a party that constantly about how they are just following orders, this seemingly doesn’t apply to them

A THAAD missile will intercept the reentry vehicle

You can do emojis using colons?

As for a China green card, it’s one of the most difficult in the world to get. If you’re a Ph.D. in AI research you can get one. Or a very highly paid professional job that pays a ton of taxes. Or after five years of marriage to a PRC citizen and continuous residence you can get one, if you buy an apartment (outright with cash or have a mortgage completely paid off and banks don’t like to give loans to foreigners because too many up and leave.)

From posted requirements, and what I have seen people get away with, permanent residence via academics isn’t quite that difficult to obtain. I’d guess the barrier is around a STEM masters, or a high tech/critical STEM bachelors degree in terms of education. I think the barriers on the K visa are lower than that, but I haven’t checked recently.

Is there a method to report a whole user, or do a modmail independent of a report on a single comment? There is a hexbear user that is very obviously a troll from one of the instances, but their most obvious comments are in communities that are external to hexbear, and I don’t know if reports would get to the right people.

I don’t know, AJ claims a shoot down too, but context is sparse and there are too many conflicting claims to know anything for certain. I assume it will be a few days before we get a clearer picture as to what actually happened.

MEO reports that the NYT has confirmed the loss of an A10 and C130 in the recovery of the pilot. I couldn’t find the source on the NYT website, so take it with a grain of salt. https://xcancel.com/ME_Observer_/status/2040648051677614185#m

Alt source, same images: https://xcancel.com/ME_Observer_/status/2040645014540148816#m

I’m not confident either way. We have previously seen sources like that guy make stuff up to win on betting sites, and I have not seen any other sources backing it up so far. The single image thats been posted a few times has only been posted by less reliable sources so far, and I don’t fully trust it. The silence on both sides is arguably the most interesting part, the operation happened hours ago and nobody has claimed anything yet.

MEO reports that Tasnim reports the downing of another F16 (unlikely F35) by Iran:

https://xcancel.com/ME_Observer_/status/2040193266663268764#m

Also footage of the A10 shoot down:

https://xcancel.com/ME_Observer_/status/2040186966050795645#m

MEO reporting a “laundry fire” on a F16 over Saudi Arabia

https://xcancel.com/ME_Observer_/status/2040082869167567273#m

https://xcancel.com/ME_Observer_/status/2040078449335800237#m reported picture of the CSAR helicopter

I thought she was adjacent to it, but I don’t fully remember. I know she is a ghoul though.

Maybe the third time I start it I’ll get into it

Well if the troops are Amish, and the runway is made of barns, they could probably do it in a few hours

There was a tagline revision post on the meta comm, unfortunately it was right before the war started so everyone got distracted.

I think that being isolated by your peers does a lot to warp your opinion of them into unpleasant places. It’s most visible within the incel groups, since they are relatively well organized and share common beliefs that turn them into lolcows for the average person, but I see no reason that social isolation should effect people who aren’t starting off from a position susceptible to incel adjacent ideas in a substantially different way. In my own experiences with social isolation, I have noticed misanthropic ideas about other people and their motivations spring up with little backing that then require effort to suppress.

I have one on why insulting people for social failings is bad, but I haven’t yet had the time to write it.