People love money, what can I say?

Everything the US government (or really any government) does is dual purpose. Pork + Function.

NASA launches are obscenely expensive (even as space programs go) because everything NASA does needs to create a job in the seats of 50 odd different senators.

Military procurement is super expensive, partially because modern military hardware is just an engineering marvel, but also because it needs to make the right jobs, hire the right contractors, meet ballooning requirements etc… Doesn’t mean they aren’t trying to get value for money, but if that’s all you focused on you’d buy all your military hardware from Temu.

This is why we need to get rid of the $4,000+ bullet proof vests which protect against $0.40 bullets.

I mean, I’d probably ask for a paternity test in this circumstance, but it absolutely can happen.

There’s a racist nursery rhyme about it.

I refuse to believe mike wazaoski isn’t packing the most potent alleles in the animal kingdom

I mean, it’s still statistically safer than driving, and will be until like the fifth major plane crash.

probably lobbied against by Grossen Kinkenspielezeug, they’ve got a lot of influence in germany

I swear this whole “defence engineers get honeypotted” thing is just a recruiting ploy. I have been cheated out of my rightful duplicitous russian waifu

firing people isnt wage theft 🙄 Yes unjustified firings and wage theft are both evil, but that doesn’t make them the same thing. Same as telling kids santa isn’t real ain’t wage theft.

the moon?

I mean you could replace the Stars and Stripes here with French Tricolour or Union Jack and I still think it works. The point is more that the lukewarm response to the Crimean invasion emboldened Russia into attacking mainland Ukraine.

how about someone called Sharkfucker?

It does fine in a warthunder up-tier, ergo this must be valid combat doctrine.

I was going to suggest Darth Vader in purgatory pod-racing all the children he killed into heaven.

make the bullets tracers too and firethem in a grid for each frame.

if the vatican had oil you could just drill into it sideways like that one simpsons episode.

The single cave-father who made the difficult choice to grab a goat or watch his child die a slow and painful death of starvation: 😟

satire is just reality you haven’t met yet

but is it sour?

Anorganic wheat,