You’re on lemmy asking about a behavior that you do not understand fully. And you question its social connotations.

The first one is… pretty obvious. Welcome home.

And yes everyone was an asshole too. They still are in fact.

I think they already have states using it like that in like Kentucky or something.

Great Bubble 2: Meltdown

Meh, I didnt need money.

Duh

Ill be darned. I knew they had calculated that the strike initiation energy was pretty damn close to cosmic ray energies. What I didnt know is that they never proved it experimentally.

Back in college we were playing around with it in astrophysics. A couple of things we toyed with were a relativistic charged particle (well a bunch of them really) penetrating deeper into the atmosphere - particle cross section is a probablistic interaction, not a certainty.

If a high enough energy particle (or group of particles) enters the static field in a cloud, the particle will occasionally travel a distance before being absorbed. Most of the time, this would result in cloud to cloud lighting (which is much more frequent), because of simply creating a lower path of resistance and the spike electrelectric field.

That would mean that cloud to ground strikes would require even higher energies to traverse the much longer distance. Problem with relativistic particles is that they only get so fast. So you’d really need a heavier particle. Much heavier charged particle. Traveling at relativistic speeds. It turns out that proton ions fit well into it. But you would have to have a particle accelerator to really send a beam of these ions to the atmosphere to do it. And solar flares don’t get them fast enough.

BUT it turns out there are plenty of sources of such beams in space. Black holes and neutron stars namely. Throw in the gamma radiation background interacting with the atmosphere? And you are cooking with enough energy sources to reliably produce lightning.

Its not reallt ransomware at that point is it? More like a data terrorist.

They hate us cause they ain’t us.

No, seriously, they dont actually believe we are capable of feats of intelligence or rejection of authority and that we fear our routine getting fucked with or people lying to us.

They see us as a threat to their power, not as an easy target.

Yes, but most Americans weren’t taught about the horrors that Americans have experienced. We were taught about Nazi Germany. As most of the world. Its an easier reference.

Fascists suck as fascism in general. I mean look at Putin, he had the one oligarch walk his private military all the way to Moscow unopposed because he fucked up so bad in Ukraine.

Its a problem that will crush itself, but take a LOT of people with it.

Its intentional. Don’t think for a second the powers that be couldn’t stop it.

They don’t care about the expense. These guys are speed running Nazi Germany. They plan on “cleansing” the population.

Thank goodness its politicians trying to make this rule. And there is no way in hell we would ever create a way to circumvent it in a completely legal way by default.

Open to suggestions.

I don’t think any of y’all know how well protected this asshole is

Correct.

268,000,000 people. That’s how many people the regime desires to remove from the US.

Whether its deportation, or a body bag, or just plain fleeing, they dont give a damn.

The more we push back, the worse it will get. But thays the thing about authoritarians, they try to use fear the entire time. What happens when the people no longer fear the regime?

Prototype. Man. What a fucking BLAST that was. The super powers you had by the end of the game combined with the techniques you could use.

Surfing corpses, eating people alive to clone their appearance. Slicing, smashing, or just tearing apart tanks. Throwing cars. It was just absolute mayhem and I doubt we will see another game quite so unhinged.

Hey, thanks for being so considerate. Except it was Friday about 5 hours ago for me.

No they won’t, but they probably will care when I can’t complete training because I faint if I stand up too fast. Or strain too much. Or am outside in hot weather. Or get slightly dehydrated. Or stretch wrong while sitting down.

Only so much they can do to motivate a guy who has no blood flow temporarily.

Man I wish. They had hoped that. Nerve damage is hard to replace. Or they didnt grow properly. We don’t know.