Idiots will always idiot. Like the old stories of $3,000 toilet seats that idiots swore were government waste... despite the fact that said toilet seats were on the fucking Space Shuttle (IIRC).

People with zero sense of scale. That's the real issue.

Any parent whose child catches measles should be beaten approximately 3/4ths to death with their own shoes.

Yes, that's kind of how an investigation works you dingbat.

Oh, don't worry, as soon as the lunatic money dries up it'll be back to whatever the new purchasing billionaire wants.

Yes. The real difference is that the newer tech is cheap and fast enough to be useful in real time to general industry and local/state government, not just spooks.

Honey, the REAL question you're going to have to answer is how the fuck you're going to target an object around the size of your face from 400km away while it's moving at thousands of miles per hour. Not only THAT, you also have to shoot it within a very narrow angle to ensure the power of the laser hits the sensor directly. Not only THAT THAT, but you also have to be completely certain the camera doesn't have some sort of aperture that's closed whenever you're FIRIN YUR LAZOR.

So if you have inside information about the exact times that the aperture will be open, the exact angle it will be photographing at, precisely what trajectory it's on and where it's going (this one's actually easy, most space objects are tracked rather precisely and publicly), then maybe... MAYBE, IF YOU CAN TRACK IT, you'll get off a zap or two.

And even then it would only work as long as the internal filters aren't designed to block common laser wavelengths. They're probably not, because everything else is so astonishingly stupid that it's not going to happen.

The moment that the oligarchs and their precious babies can't winter in Cancun because their passports are worthless is the moment things start to change. Rapidly.

There is no such structure in the DPRK. It's an enforced religious cult masquerading as a country.

Of course. Because it's always the "other" with right-wingers. Not a genuine human in the bunch.

You think any of these cousinfuckers in Alabama know the difference?

"A zygote? Is that like a billygote?"

"Come and Take It" is a reference to the Battle of Gonzales. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Come_and_take_it

There's little chance most people with those stickers know that though. It's the same group that unironically loves their Punisher skull shaped Thin Blue Line stickers.

Meanwhile my brother in law apparently had some life-altering experience because his kids were cold in the house and still refuses to lift a fucking finger to get out of this shitbag state.

Mayonnaise motherfuckers will allow this state to flourish despite everything.