a casting for a prosthetic made over 40 years ago was used to recreate the image of Peter Cushing so that he could appear as Grand Moff Tarkin again.

They were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.

In the end it was really creepy to have a dead person have so much screen time in a movie.

Yeah there’s no better reason to use jury nullification than when government wants to kill a guy for political reasons.

Yeah, if the pro-Palestinian movement was a non-violent resistance movement I’d be on board 100%. But unfortunately that’s not what it is.

Odai Nasser Saadi Al-Rubai is someone we should support, someone who wanted peace. But he’s dead now and those who claim to want peace for Palestine seem to want to erase him from existence. He was inconvenient to their narrative so they will pretend he didn’t exist.

How can someone claim to be to be pro-Palestinian if they have no empathy for Odai Nasser Saadi Al-Rubai, a Palestinian that wanted there to be an end to this war? It doesn’t seem like a pro-Palestinian movement to me, it just looks like an anti-Israel movement.

Have you seen a photo of what tanks in combat look like these days? They have cages welded on top of them. Also the hatches can be closed. A lot of tankers like to have the hatch open so the commander can have have more visibility, but it’s not a necessity.

There have been ways to take out a tank with missiles for a long time now. The reason why they’re still used is that air defenses exist and nothing beats the cost efficiency of moving a big gun close to the enemy and firing a lot of cheap ammunition at them.

Also are you going to tell civilians they can move back into their towns based solely on drones? If the civilians are behind a bunch of tanks, they’re safe because the drones will go after the tanks before going after the civilians. You need soldiers to hold ground. A soldier in a tank is going to be harder for a drone to kill than a soldier that’s not in a tank.

Yes drones are effective, but drones can’t hold ground and keep civilians safe.

We all hope for peace, but some of us understand that Hamas is incompatible with peace.

The moon program in the 1960s was originally called Artemis and got renamed to Apollo for the same reasoning.

So it’ll probably get renamed to Apollo 2.

Make something that’ll EMP everyone’s replicators before people start replicating nukes.

Yes the Max is the current status quo, but given the Min is almost certainly the destruction of the world, so status quo is probably the best we can hope for.

And maybe I’d make a sandwich if there’s room for it along with the EMP.

Have fun living in a 1m³ house.

Damn these AIs are getting good at understanding exactly what I want.

Yes because Russia will build more tanks and other equipment in the next decade. Not a problem if Europe builds up too. But that will be a problem if Europe does nothing.

If Russia were an immediate threat, Europe would have no choice but to give Trump whatever he wants so the US will protect Europe. But with Russian forces being decimated by this war, Europe has the opportunity to build it’s own arms industry to be able to produce it’s own weapons to be able to counter Russia in a decade’s time.

Drones don’t hold ground, soldiers do. Soldiers that have tanks are going to be more effective than those without them.

ITT: A lot of of leftists seeing evidence that they have supported fascists and having to choose between remaining a leftist or going full tankie.

What’s bullshit is that you believe that people capable of the horrific things that happened on October 7 would never ever torture and kill people that threatened their power.

Hamas is a fascist organization, and this is how fascists roll.

Your comment might carry more weight if this thread wasn’t full of people being outraged and claiming that anything that suggests Hamas aren’t good guys must be “zionist propaganda”.

You may not support Hamas, but maybe ask the people in this thread that are clearly pro-Hamas whether or not they consider themselves to be pro-Palestine.

The contents of this thread suggests there are a lot of people that are part of the pro-Palestine movement are indeed pro-Hamas. And there is little push-back within the pro-Palestine movement for people that take pro-Hamas and even anti-semitic stances. Anyone who does gets labelled a zionist and gets harassed and threatened.

Sure not everyone in the pro-Palestinian movement are pro-Hamas, but Hamas is a significant part of that movement. And when you have violent extremists in a movement, they are the ones that control the movement, not the pacifists. Because as we can see, the violent elements of a movement are willing to kill the pacifists if they speak against them.

ITT: People casually spreading anti-semitic conspiracy theories about Israel controlling the US government.

Are you MAGA? You sound exactly like a MAGA.

Yeah we all understand that Americans have no concept of what an alliance is.

The issue is his general lackadaisical approach to sensitive and classified information. The Signal group chat debacle is not a one off thing, this dude just doesn’t give a shit in his handling of sensitive information with no regard to whether it’s classified or puts people’s lives at risk.

Bumble bees are actually inspiring wing designs now. For a long time our best theories on aerodynamics couldn’t explain how Bumblebees could fly. Given the relative mass and wing size the bumble bee they couldn’t explain how a bumble bee could fly.

In the last decade or so they figured it out after putting enough bumble bees into wind tunnels. Bumblebees generate additional lift by creating little vortexes in the air. So now wing designers are trying to incorporate that effect into their designs.

Buy it with what? Billionaires don’t hold money, their valuation is all in stock value.

I think you’re giving them too much credit. Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by incompetence.