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Manhattan has an entire network of steam transmission.

Yeah. Trump can buy off police departments by giving them carte blanche over their personal conduct.

They had to follow orders, but they did it in the minimal way possible.

They made sure the military looked like crap on parade. A lot of units weren’t in dress uniform and the marching was noted as sloppy where it looked on purpose.

Very little modern military equipment was used. That the US Army pulled out a Sherman tank shows what the military wanted to show off.

Also, over loudspeaker, they played Fortunate Son, which is an anti war song about how the rich don’t have to go to war but the poor do. That is not a song I would expect to hear at a military parade.

This was not a parade where the US military was showing off.

I think the big issue for Trump right now is the military. If you read between the lines of January 6, the military purposefully skipped the chain of command in allowing for the deployment of national guard troops. I wouldn’t be surprised if the military cut the President out of the chain of command at that time, especially as they got every former Secretary of Defense to defend their actions post instruction.

Trump and Hegseth have been trying a lot of carrot and stick incentives to get the military on board, but the recent Trump Birthday parade shows that there is still a deep disdain on serving Trump. You also have a lot of military strategists who likely see the writing on the wall regarding supporting Trump; Trump can’t give the military anything close to what the military already has.

Trump can clear out the civilian government, but the military is a lot harder to crack.

The problem with that is that you generally have to fly with an ID and a name; a name you need to provide when buying plane tickets.

I don’t see how the face scan let’s them do anything beyond what they already can.

The audience wins out over time.

Unless you’re Paul Rudd.

On VHS…

A lot of old Rocky and Bullwinkle cartoons, The Lion King, Rocky Horror Picture Show

Things like that.

This was a serious answer.

Like most other countries, expect that a lot of people only treat what they can afford. A lot of Go Fund Me sites have been created due to expensive medical treatments.

There is astroturfing, but there is also a lot of propaganda and story curation around the protests.

Like the rest of my body, I use a loofah. I have enough mobility to get to my entire back from one arm.

Recycled the plastic that is used to go around office paper boxes so they don’t open into coasters.

If I’m doing that, I’m not laude.

Yeah. I went to a tech school, so the school was set up to teach the importance of communication and team building because they knew the engineers needed to be taught this and that understanding human systems was as important as understanding technical systems.

I could usually get away with saying “Bacon is a vegetable” when ordering a vegetarian burrito with pinto beans; the pinto beans were made with bacon.

People on Lemmy aren’t “normal” people and shouldn’t use their personal views as the norm.

World War III isn’t a romanticized repeat of World War II in Star Trek, though. It is an extremely destructive war that just about destroys most major national governments. There isn’t a winner with a peace treaty; all sides collapse.

The value isn’t as important and is more misleading.

You can create your own instance and give yourself as much karma as you want.

There are no internal Lemmy structures to prevent mass upvoting or downvoting.

Culture and voting rules across Lemmy are different and without a centralized authority.

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