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[–] Five@slrpnk.net -1 points 1 month ago

This is a tedious recording of two people, one of whom doesn't understand how to play nor cares to learn, try and suffer through an unpopular discontinued collectible card game. No wait there's more: they also engage in annoying small-talk about their lives.

[–] Five@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The mesh increases the 'hit box' of the interceptor. It's conductive, so it is more likely to trigger the kamikaze than a normal in-air collision.

[–] Five@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

I don't think the interceptor is expected to survive a successful interception. In the case of a miss, it will be reusable tho, unlike other defense munitions. If any parts of either drone survive, they'll fall in defender controlled territory, and be available to be fed back into the drone manufacture supply chain.

[–] Five@slrpnk.net 26 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It's a trucking company that the CEO lied was going bankrupt, as an excuse not to pay a cancer-stricken trucker.

There are no records of ATG Truckload formally filing for bankruptcy.

[–] Five@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 month ago

The victim of wage-theft was battling cancer.

[–] Five@slrpnk.net 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

CEO was engaging in wage theft, suspect is battling cancer.

[–] Five@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (6 children)

Cheap kamikaze drones have loose wires on the front. When the wires touch, like when they collide with an object in front of them, it completes a circuit that detonates the payload.

A wide conductive screen mesh on the back of an interceptor drone seems like a cheap, simple countermeasure.

[–] Five@slrpnk.net 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Your uncle is correct in that work isn't given to inmates for their benefit or edification. It's to line the pockets of those in charge. If the state wanted prisoners to more easily 're-integrate' into society, they would let them form unions and pay them a decent wage for their labor. Instead, they'll either abuse their authority to get the inmates to work for peanuts and pocket the difference, or they'll pass the work to one of their cronies.

One of the roles of prison labor is to undermine organized labor outside of the prison. Prisoners are often employed outside of the prison in addition to doing work to maintain the prison. By forcing them to compete for jobs with slaves, it undermines non-incarcerated laborers' bargaining power and pressures them to accept conditions closer to incarceration.

I don't blame your uncle for his position; life in prison is extremely tedious, and the quality of what you're given makes commissary essential. People outside need to organize with people inside to create a situation that benefits both.

[–] Five@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 month ago

Buka ba mbila!

[–] Five@slrpnk.net 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Article title with the whitewash removed: "IN VIOLATION OF A COURT ORDER AND THE CONSTITUTION, TRUMP'S IMMIGRATION AUTHORITIES SAY THEY DEPORTED A DOZEN PEOPLE TO AN AFRICAN NATION, ONE OF WHICH IS IN A CIVIL WAR..."

[–] Five@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

'Minarchism' in my book is a term invented by fascist and capitalist entryists, and people who use it to gatekeep anarchism should be on the other side of the gate.

They don't need to be 'appointed' by a king or politician in order to exist. Committees are one of the essential organs of actual right-now functioning real-life working large-scale anarchist groups. When done well, they include the voices of all of the significant stakeholders in a decision, and efficiently discover solutions that achieve the goal while respecting the autonomy and interests of all of the participants.

Don't @ me, but definitely reply to @JustJack23@slrpnk.net with the disemboweled anarchism you propose as an alternative.

[–] Five@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 month ago

Did anyone else catch the detail of the French-coded resistance in Andor using their metal-tipped canes to break up the pavement in the square before the Ghorman Massacre?

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