You guys already hit better than 4% according to some articles I’ve seen posted here-ish over the last couple months.

Which archive? I haven’t really sailed the high seas the last decade. Most of the stuff I want is old games and I can find those easily

They didn’t suffer any losses during Operation Preying Mantis

https://youtu.be/d5v6hlRyeHE?si=YoSEb_oW8Yb5DzYR

If they keep this war up, with the current losses in manpower, for another 8 to 9 months, they won’t have enough Russian males to repopulate the country. Putin may be effectively killing Russia as a country. Unfortunately Ukraine may hit that point sooner since they have fewer people.

And US aircraft carriers have an honestly embarrassing amount of firepower, completely disregarding the jets. There’s a reason that they haven’t been sunk by anyone other than the USN since Midway. Apparently we have sunk several carriers since WWII, one with a nuke. It survived the first nuke, but the second sunk her. Though the Independence survived both nukes.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uTawbZA7odY

Yarrr, I mean really not, but it’s free

Whoops that’s just an interview with the author, though may be useful to some, I shall keep looking.

Audiobooks.com has a 30 day free trial, and this is one of the books they have, but still not good enough…

Bookey.com also has a free trial and this audiobook. I’m failing here as a pirate. Unfortunately, I haven’t pirated any audiobooks so I don’t know where to look

The Pledge didn’t originally contain the words Under God, that was inserted in the 60s

Ahh, thanks. I think that may be a grandad level pun

That’s totally fucked up, and seems to be a violation of the first amendment, but IANAL

I’m not getting it. Explain, please?

Most of the staff likely would have told me that it is mandatory. There are news stories all the time about kids being bullied, given detention, and other negative repercussions, for exercising their right to not say the pledge.

Apparently it’s on Xitler, and is called “Bye, bye Biden,” made by Little Bug

The Pledge of Allegiance has entered the chat.

I’m aware it isn’t mandatory, but no one made that clear to me when I was a kid.

I base that on the laws and regulations that the US has for immigration, vs the ones that countries like The UK, Germany, Japan, Canada and Australia have. There are navigable paths to US citizenship for people that don’t have skills that are needed in the US. For many other countries you either have to be rich or skilled to get in. Poor people aren’t welcome. Poor people aren’t exactly welcome in the US either, but they can get in.

I maintain that the issue is that they keep trying to have someone like a president. That doesn’t work. You need a council that has executive power, that way if one person starts getting corrupted, they can be winnowed out. If you really want it to work, you need to outlaw political parties from day one, and require that no one that wants to hold political office is eligible to do so.

 YOUR ACCENT IS STRANGE, FELLOW HUMAN

I actually was still using RIF till the end. Took almost a month break and started using Sync for Lemmy the day it came out.

“Wish George Carlin” ↑ needed more work

TIL California and Hawaii don’t exist.

Also the US is notoriously easier to get into than almost any other country