Common question… the aircraft is an F-35, which has strong stealth capabilities. Because we had trouble tracking one that crashed in the US last year, congress dictated that each F-35 operated in the US would have an emotional support helicopter attached so that the radar signature of the helicopter could be tracked in case of emergency.

They initially tried tying the helicopter to the jet and operating it this way, but after three helicopters they decided the other way around was the best configuration (while losing helicopters is okay, there was concern the surviving pilots might get used to moving over 500mph, and this attitude could contaminate the other slow-moving helicopter pilots).

It’s a heavy price for safety, but honestly the F-35 pilots are too busy taking pictures of themselves in an F-35 to notice the difference.

Call them the eloi

Lemmy is so kind and rational, I have trouble adapting to the reasonable conversations here.

Well, I mean, you can’t…. take someone’s gun while they’re dumping oil on the ground.

Only alive, or Steve Irwin?

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I mean as long as she doesn’t say she shot her dog out loud, she’s met the only criteria the republican party cares about.

Looks like at times (in full sun) they’ve started reaching the wet bulb temperatures where people die.

Why did they teach you this. Your singular teacher. What were they thinking?

Yeah I told exactly one friend it wasn’t proper English and they were so offended. They were. So, so offended.

I’d like to buy all of those people a round of absinth, gender be damned.

It’s a shame, because she was white and attractive, so she met the republican criteria for a female candidate. Unfortunately she forgot the secret criteria of being quiet and repeating what the man says.

I would also like to offer my thinks and god thinks.

They’re probably not selling the baby.

I refuse to commence joiner with your comment and I am not asking to engage in commerce with your user name. I am engaged in the act of traveling my fingers on a phone screen.

“You said representative and started cursing, would you like to describe your problem again?”

These things take time. I’ve saved discords in the past by making interesting comments or posts that created conversations. Lemmy is growing, and quality content attracts quality content.

This.

Well he didn’t say startophobia or planetophobia. Space is the emptiness between all that.

How about Animal Crossing next, I want to pickpocket Tom Nook.