Origins was fantastic

Except for the unnecessary RPG bullshit

But sometimes I just need to be able to jump on a Teams call and have my audio, mic, camera, and screen sharing all work immediately without any hassle.

I recall reading that those issues were fixed in Wayland 8-9 months ago, and should have rolled out to desktop environments like KDE Plasma by now. When I made the switch to Linux back in May I had a friend hope into a Discord call to test things out and it wasn’t an issue at all. The only hiccup I can think of is if you were using a Debian or Ubintu based distro, which are notoriously slow at updates

ms office 365 not working,

That’s a feature, not a bug. Just skip Microslop and use LibreOffice

Also, tanks are sturdy with thick armor with minimal weak spots. A mech with legs is an invitation for an attack. Disable one leg and the mech is not longer a threat, and again, limited weight on those legs means limited armor.

Just to nitpick: tanks have a similar vulnerability: its treads. If you’re in a tank crew in an actual armored engagement and your tread is taken out, you’re likely better off bailing out.

That being said, replacing tank treads is way easier and requires less technical skill than replacing mech legs. Plus the whole tank would be significantly simpler to do maintenance on and require less fuel. Logistics is a huge factor in war, it’s why the US army runs the M1 Abrams on jet fuel with a fuel hungry turbine engine. It just simplifies the logistics

and that’s the one place where there isn’t a physics problem.

Actually there is a physics problem, but it came about after battleships were largely phased out.

The issue is the addition of missiles to naval munitions. They tend to use “plunging fire”, where they try to have a fairly vertical trajectory on impact. That means they’re more likely to hit the deck, not the hull.

Battleships have the bulk of their armor on the hull, not the deck. Trying to armor both the hull and the deck would result in a large amount of displacement (the allowable amount of weight when fully loaded) being used just for armor, limiting storage for ammunition, fuel, crew, and supplies and would severely limit its ability to operate for extended lengths of time.

Sure, a modern battleship could potentially only armor the deck with minimal hull armor, but then that would open them up to guns and torpedos, and missiles could be modified to have more level trajectories on impact.

And to further expand on your comment:

In modern navies, big ships are turning into a liability (The superweapon problem you pointed out). If you have the bulk of your power on a single hull, then losing that one ship cripples your combat effectiveness. Aircraft carriers gain a ton of advantages from being larger to affset those risks, but a battleship is just a big gunship, and that job is better served using multiple smaller cruisers.

And there’s even debates in the US Navy about whether to develop smaller carriers and have 2-3 of them in a task group instead of a single supercarrier. With VTOL and STOL (Short Take Off and Landing) being commonplace with the F-35, Harrier, and V-22, smaller carriers are significantly more feasible than they were 20 years ago.

I get it’s a joke, but there’s a point.

Modern (western) tanks have tons of safety systems in them, from fire suppression to safe inert storage for ammo and fuel. In theory there’s areas where the newer M1 tanks can be hit and penetrated and it can continue operating. And even if it’s hit in a spot where the tank is disabled, the crew have a really high survival rate.

And if you’re wondering why I specified western tanks, it’s because of Russia. All the tanks they have in operation right now have issues with the entire ammo magazine blowing up when hit, which tosses the entire turret into the air and kills the crew

There’s a problem with legged machines in that they tend to be heavier, require more maintenance, and have a higher ground pressure for the same task/payload as an equivalent wheeled or tracked vehicle.

While there’s some terrain where they’re more effective (mountains), that’s fairly limited. Plus, if the terrain is too extreme then even legged machines can’t get through, so you’re looking for a goldilocks zone for deployment.

but once I realized I never felt full after eating

Sorry for the nitpick, but I think it’s important to mention: you shouldn’t be aiming to be full after every meal. You should aim to be satiated instead. If you try to feel full after every meal, your stomach will stretch out over the years and you’ll eat more and more food to compensate, which can lead to getting fat.

This is already an issue for people that get gastric bypass surgery. Oftentimes their stomach ends up stretching back out to it’s size before the surgery and they start gaining weight again.

And you, specifically, are why the Iron Front wanted to shoot Marxists alongside Fascists and Monarchists.

Go reread the thread. The only one lacking reading comprehension here is you .

Tbh, we need more parties, remove the first-past-the-post voting system, and reverse Citizen’s United to truly remove the risk.

Part of the problem is how primaries bias candidate selection towards the more extreme party members and/or more money. In the republicans it means a drive towards fascists. In the Democratic party that’s been more of a drive towards neoliberals rather than progressives due to funding.

Reversing Citizens United would remove the neoliberal bias from the Democrat primaries and more easily allow progressives to win candidacy.

Having more party options and adding ranked choice voting or proportional democracy would allow people to ignore the “lesser of 2 evils” problem and pick candidates that better match their views, so people don’t feel pressured to vote for a fascist due to being more scared of a “socialist”.

Unfortunately neither the Republicans nor the establishment Dems want that, because they’ll both lost power and influence from having a higher number of major political parties.

On the plus side, about half the states are in the process of trying to pass laws or citizens initiatives to remove the ability for corporations to finance elections. Props to Hawai’i to figuring out the solution and demonstrating its effectiveness. That means the Citizens United is getting somewhat fixed at the moment.

The next step would be to try to get the various states to enact ranked choice voting like Alaska has. Easily the harder initiative to pull off due to misconceptions of it being too complicated and resistance from lawmakers, but I think it’s doable.

Agreed. Jeffries and Schumer and bought-and-paid-for stooges as well, simply to be the “managed opposition” to the Republicans.

I’d like to be wrong, but I don’t expect those 2 to do anything effective

And the decades of manipulation

LLMs are a waste of money. Don’t waste tacoayer dollars

Missing could mean doing damage but not enough finish the job. And tbh, he’d deserve that

Plus, they’ve seen what the people that scream “socialism is bad” do to economies

The man literally marched alongside MLK Jr.

but the funding should go to a general fund that’s available to all candidates who are not millionaires

Exactly.

Jimmy Savile and Margaret Thatcher perfectly demonstrated why you shouldn’t rely on the wealthy funding things for charity. It gives them tons of influnce over what they’re funding compared to having the government tax the rich and direct the money where it needs to go.

Those 2 used that strategy to tear apart British social services and literally led to the rape of thousands of people

I guess this is when those pardons are gonna get doled out again. :(

Hopefully Trump is so egotistical that he can’t imagine being successfully removed from office and doesn’t try to make pardons until it’s too late

so soon after they were voted in

Jefferies has been in Congress for 13 years. While you’re technically correct, the way you worded it suggests that he’s one of the congressional freshmen

But, but… they put their time in! They deserve their positions!

/s if it wasn’t obvious