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  • What are you talking about? Trump is isolating us from the rest of the world day by day.

    We're rapidly approaching the level of Russia, as considered on the world stage. Nothing about what is happening is a good thing. Nothing.

  • Immersion-breaking
  • The purpose of the flight of arrows was to blanket the area ahead of an army advancing to meet the front line of your army. It was mathematically, the only way to have a chance at killing a large number of targets, as being accurate at that range was nearly impossible, even for the best longbowman.

    So they went with numbers over precision. This also allowed them to effectively slow down the pace of the advancing frontline if every time they loose their arrows, they all have to stop and take cover.

    It has a tertiary goal of likely killing any wounded still on the ground. It's not a technique you'd use when your forces have fully engaged as it'd kill just as many of your units as the enemy's.

    Finally, it could be used in strategic encounters to force the enemy to stagger/get out of position if you could cause just one part of their advancing line to stop, it'd essentially break or weaken the enemy's frontline.

  • Wisconsin supreme court race: Liberal Susan Crawford beats Musk-backed candidate
  • There's a difference between net worth, and liquidity. That came out of his liquidity pool.

    Edit, not sure why I was downvoted, this is the truth. A lot of his wealth is tied up in loans against his stocks. If you do enough damage, he has to sell more stock to pay that back, eventually over leveraging himself.

    It would take a lot to do that today, which is why going after his TSLA sick price hurts him the most right now.

  • Why Chrome only?
  • Typically they have a dependency on something only one browser can do, and rather than using a polyfill or a better browser, force their bad technical decisions onto the user.

  • Attorney General Pam Bondi directs prosecutors to seek death penalty for Luigi Mangione
  • It's my understanding that this will make it far more difficult for them to get a conviction/verdict. Going for the death penalty has certain bars to hit during a trial by jury. It's often why prosecutors go after lesser sentences on things people absolutely did the worse versions of. This gives them a much more likely guilty verdict from a jury.

    By doing this, they're basically torpedoing the case, as I understand it.

    Purely to try and scare people/send a message.

    When he's rendered a verdict of not-guilty for the crimes that would lead to the death penalty, but is guilty of something relatively trivial, like "owning an unregistered firearm", this could come back to bite them in the ass.

    But who knows. I've been hoping for the judicial system to bite the ass of fascists for almost a decade now, without much luck.

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