Sci Fi is a flavor of fantasy that favors grounded explainations over magic, yet can't escape it entirely. In order for something to be sci fi, it must have something in it that can be percieved as "magical," even in the "sufficiently advanced technology" sense of the word. Jump/warp tech, laser weapons, space warfare in general, most life support concepts, AGI... All magic as far as we know now. Any sci fi without the roots of fantasy is really just modern fiction.
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Protection from grit. And because polymers that can resist balistic shock and heat had only very recently been invented by then, and it was "cool" to find a way to make it useful.
Universally incompatible.
That's a smoke screen. Another is the "liberal brainwashing machine" school system scare. What they fear is the statistic that higher educated individuals trend towards populism and progressivism. They see higher education of youths as a threat to their political base, which turns into "spineless parents sending kids to liberul brainwashing camps funded by the gubmnt."
The ghost of Reagan?
And you get to make one of those cute "Resolved; for record keeping" tickets to fill out your day :) This is why I actually give out my direct line. If anyone gets upset at not being able to reach me, I can just say tons of people have that same number and are trying to reach me, and I'm never bored from 8-5
Not to mention that if he is off of any 1 ballot and loses, he has ammunition for another Jan6. If he has a "fair shot" and loses, there is less plausibility and (hopefully) fewer followers in the repeat.
Which this probably is if they want to pack as much data as possible in one unit.
Question: We've seen sand-filled missiles due to corruption and cronyism, and they were actually transfered to the front line expecting to be live munitions. How many Russian ICBMs do you think are truly functional between the "new" ones and the 70yo cold war hulks?
To be clear, I don't revel in the idea of a war between the Ruskies and NATO, but Putin is certain to be wondering this, too. How effective are his strategic assets, truly? I'm sure the CIA has figured that out and is guiding US response on that intel. They know exactly how far an insecure dictator can be pushed.
Hey OP, that site has enough trackers on it to give me cancer. Can you link an alt from a more consumer friendly source?
I now explicitly trust this writer and take his word as gospel.