Wikipedia disagrees, though notes that there are weapons that can beat current defence technology

The Soviet Union could produce enough missiles to overwhelm any defence. Russia now couldn’t afford to maintain a large arsenal, though China can. China doesn’t seem as likely to launch a first strike as the USSR did.

Of course those systems aren’t protecting you unless you live somewhere important

You did. We sorted the shooting problem in '96

Yeah but in 1984 we really worried that we might not make it through the week.

Weird Al released Christmas at ground zero in '86

Now we don’t really believe Russia’s missiles will even work

And back then there was no credible defence

So what’s lacking it’s any ability for someone familiar with the problem to point out that it’s not actually the same

If closing as “already answered” it should really be "already answered by [link to other thread]

The only cybertruck fire I recall (I don’t follow the vehicle closely at all) was the one with a load of pyrotechnics in Vegas, where the truck’s battery didn’t even ignite

Have any actually exploded? I think they have pretty large batteries so any fire would be pretty catastrophic

(I get that it was a joke, it just spurred this thought)

Bruce makes me think of the shark from Finding Nemo

It’s a pretty uncommon name now, so I guess it’s easy for random memories to stick

I remember on igorMUD we had inter Igor ballistic aardvarks

MUDs and MOOs were quite fun. I played at University as I didn’t have internet at home then, only BBSes

It’s pretty big in Australia

My mother fed me brains as a kid. They smelled terrible cooking but tasted great

I wonder how the zillionairs supporting Trump are enjoying this worse than 2017, worse than 2020 market freefall

Shame their god isn’t more powerful than their devil

For those who want to know which story, the short version is family house in a flood, family make it to the roof. Boat comes, another, another they send them away “God will save me” a helicopter comes, is told to go. The family die. God tells them they fucked up 'cause He sent three boats and a helicopter which they refused

I hate antivaxxers. As a kid I couldn’t get my first dose of measles vaccine because I was sick, and wasn’t vaccinated until my 5 year old vaccinations. I was sick with measles, but was okay.

I got measles because vaccination wasn’t widespread then and there. The same happened to other kids and they weren’t as lucky.

This kid was betrayed by their community, denied vaccines that would have kept them alive because people lied to them

Ed. Swipeographical errors

A week off Lemmy? Probably not

I don’t like how ban-happy they got over Luigi

Also they seem too big, to have too heavy control by its admins

I think NSFW is also going to have more people creating a local login rather than browsing with their main, boosting it somewhat

They claimed the rules in their home nation needed them to delete almost all pro Luigi posts and comments. In any case they did delete most Luigi content. I deleted my Lemmy.world account after that, I’m not here for censorship

🎵can we please hold hands again?🎵

The fish is screwed either way, it can’t dance and it has no ability to make a fist, its flipper is too inflexible

Even if it were a bite contest, the fish has a much smaller mouth

My money’s on the fem boy, unless it’s a swimming race

BG3 seems to be pretty good at letting you have whatever genitals and body shape you want, but doesn’t let you have an outfit that renders as a dress or skirt until act 3 of 3*

So you’re forced to wear trousers for almost the whole game

*Unless you steal a wizard’s robe