JDPON Don you done it again

  • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
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    1 month ago

    Eventually Trump’s gonna go in front of the media and say something like “We gotta get new missiles. Elon’s making new missiles - future generation hyper 100 times sound so very, very fast. $500 billion contract to HyperMissile…” There’s no information about HyperMissile anywhere. But HyperMissile.com was created the day before and the only thing on the website is a ginormous poop emoji.

      • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
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        161 month ago

        people

        Slave laborers. I just needed to be a bit pedantic.

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        I wanted to leave a Wikipedia link and quote here but pages had no easily quotable stuff. I do not want to link to a .mil page but it’s convenient.

        German V-Weapons: Desperate Measures > National Museum of the United States Air Force™ > Display

        The Nazis used forced labor to build V-weapons and an estimated 20,000 people died producing them in brutal work-camp conditions.

        As if “forced labor” wasn’t creepy enough - the following paragraph makes things even creepier. I wonder if that was intentional. Hey, they might have used slaves forced labor but there was significant technological advancement!

        Both the V-1 and V-2 foreshadowed future weapons development. The V-1 Buzz Bomb’s pilotless, self-guided aircraft features reappeared in later cruise missiles, and the V-2, as the first practical rocket-guided ballistic missile, pointed the way toward nuclear-armed ballistic missiles…

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          11 month ago

          …i think season two is on disney+ in april…