Yeah, I mean I'll check it out then. I'd imagine I can get past the shonen stuff. As I've gotten older those tropes just are a lot less interesting than before.

I remember almost checking this out, but then it had massive Shonen vibes so I never got around to it. Might have to check this out now though

It's not militarizing space, so hopefully both these missions succeed. I had no idea either of these were happening, but I feel like news like this doesn't get much coverage unless it's whatever Bezos's thing or Space X have cooked up from their NASA handouts.

This article really might be one of the dumbest things I've read. I guess building more aircraft or repairing and refitting aircraft is assumed to just not be possible?

Also by this author's logic, how the hell does the US have like any functioning aircraft from "overuse"?

This brings the number of unnatural deaths of migrating people to just under 3500 this year, so far.

Any number higher that 0 is too much, but that's just absurdly high and I'm sure it will keep growing. Completely abhorrent.

Definitely seemed like an odd decision in 90 degree weather at the event. But I guess they'll just keep pumping money into the E-girls and phoning in the booths.

So this is anecdotal but I was at an event this weekend and walked by the by the army recruitment stand a few times. It was deeply amusing how little interest they were getting. Probably had something to do with their idea of a good time was challenging people to fitness tests.

There was also someone who flipped off a Blackhawk and then proceeded to get into an argument with people around him.

It seems like the current plan is to have ECOWAS hold economic sanctions against Niger while moderate rebels destabilize the country.

Because I genuinely don't know, how big of a deal would ECOWAS sanctions be to Niger? Is it something that they can withstand?

Early today, a French A400M military aircraft took off from N’Djamena (Chad) and entered stealth mode to breach Niger’s airspace between 6:39 AM and 11:15 AM.

Is it really even stealth mode if your detected crossing the airspace?

Put the latest deprogram episode on for a bit and I didn't fully comprehend that the Ukrainian Privitization is just literally happening in the open on a website.

Like this is a now defunct distillery, so I'm guessing you'd just get the property but still it's wild this is just in the open. I really expected it to be done through more backroom deals (I'm sure some of it still is)