If you think that’ll stop them, I have a bridge to sell you. In case you hadn’t noticed, the law doesn’t mean anything any more to the people in power.

It would probably be a pyrrhic victory though.

I dropped Reddit when it was announced that you could be banned for upvoting something.

Luigi is also, in all probability, innocent.

Which means the Claims Adjuster is still at large.

Only in the sense that taking an ocean cruise makes you a sailor. She’s not an astronaut, she’s a tourist.

Honestly, it’s old tech. There were guide-by-wire missiles for a long time before this.

Violence is only justifiable when it’s used against people I don’t like, not people YOU don’t like.

Oh no!

Anyways…

Well you see, there’s a simple explanation for this. When we do it, it’s good, and when you do it, it’s bad.

Everyone except for the people who get sent to El Salvador…

It’s possible to have a poor opinion of the Chinese government without having a bigoted opinion about the Chinese people.

Yup! Totally plausible - just more expensive and less repeatable. And harder to use against moving targets.

Although you are correct, this destroys the engine.

A good, efficient fusion engine just needs to point the exhaust end towards the enemy and the hyper-accelerated particles will punch a hole through the target for you. And then you point at the next target, etc. etc.

Also, it’s a butchered quote from Larry Niven’s Known Space books, referred to as the “Kzinti Lesson” - because the Kzinti thought humanity was unarmed and helpless until they discovered that humans are really good at improvising weapons.

Even if they do know, they almost certainly are buying into the ‘he’s a criminal and deserves to be deported’ bit.

Sigh. Yet another article assuming Mangione’s guilt. Ben Burgis didn’t even bother to say ‘allegedly’ anywhere.

Technically yes, I could, but I originally wanted to slap together a dumb meme about newbies to 196 getting trapped by The Rule. When I couldn’t upload the image I gave up and made this post.

…thanks, I think…

The usefulness of a fusion engine as a weapon is directly correlated to its efficiency.

They’re called Subaru Outbacks now.

Agreed. I’m not likely to say it to their face… but here, I’m preaching to the choir and I can be a bit salty about it.