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Cheap thrills, costly spills: The real price of Made-in-China
By N. C. Bipindra China dreams of turning the People’s Liberation Army, or PLA, into a “world-class” military by the end of 2049. Two out of every ten and seven of the top twenty-five of the world’s largest defense companies are from China. But does high volume necessarily mean a better and more potent armed force? Military weapons are an important tool for projecting a country’s influence…
#American#Arms#Arms Export#Arms Manufacturing#Bangladesh#Battle Tanks#Cargo Aircraft#Cargo Plane#China#Chinese#Combat Aircraft#combat jets#Defence#Defence Exports#Defence Industrial Complex#Defence Manufacturing#Defense#Defense Exports#Defense Industrial Complex#Defense Manufacturing#Drone#Drones#Egypt#Europe#European#Exports#F-7#F22P#F7#Fighter Aircraft
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In the aftermath of the right-wing U.S. Supreme Court's potentially deadly rampage against federal regulators, its ruling in support of the criminalization of homelessness, and its decision to grant former President Donald Trump sweeping immunity from criminal prosecution, Sen. Bernie Sanders said late Monday that nation's highest judicial body is "out of control" and must be reined in before it can inflict even more damage.
"Over the years, among other disastrous rulings, this right-wing court has given us Citizens United, which created a corrupt, billionaire-dominated political system," Sanders (I-Vt.) said in a statement. "It overturned Roe v. Wade, removing women's constitutional right to control their own bodies. Last week, the court chose to criminalize poverty by banning homeless encampments in public spaces—forcing more poor people into the cycle of debt and poverty."
"With the Chevron case," the senator continued, "they have made it far more difficult for the government to address the enormous crises we face in terms of climate change, public health, workers' rights, and many other areas. And, today, the court ruled in favor of broad presidential immunity, making it easier for Trump and other politicians to break the law without accountability."
Such far-reaching and devastating decisions, Sanders argued, highlight the extent to which unelected Supreme Court justices—with the backing of right-wing billionaires and corporations bent on sweeping away all regulatory constraints—have arrogated policymaking authority to themselves with disastrous consequences for U.S. society and the world.
"If these conservative justices want to make public policy, they should simply quit the Supreme Court and run for political office," said Sanders. "At a time of massive income and wealth inequality, billionaire control of our political system, and major threats to the foundations of American democracy, it is clear to me that we need real Supreme Court reform. A strong, enforceable code of ethics is a start, but just a start. We'll need much more than that."
Sanders did not make specific reform recommendations beyond an ethics code in his statement Monday, but he has previously suggested rotating judges off the Supreme Court—which would effectively end lifetime appointments.
The Vermont senator's progressive colleagues floated a range of possible actions following the high court's presidential immunity ruling on Monday, including adding seats to the Supreme Court and impeaching individual justices.
"Today's decision, along with the court's decision to overturn Chevron, is an assault on the separation of powers under the Constitution," Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) said in response to the court's ruling in Corner Post Inc. v. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
"An extremist Supreme Court stacked by Donald Trump has snatched power away from an elected Congress and handed lawmaking power over to a few far-right unelected judges," Warren added. "This Supreme Court is undermining the foundations of our democracy; Congress must restore balance by adding more justices to the court."
The Supreme Court's recent flurry of rulings has already thrown existing cases into chaos and opened the floodgates to new corporate-backed lawsuits against longstanding federal regulations.
The Washington Post reported Sunday that "mere hours after the Supreme Court sharply curbed the power of federal agencies" by scrapping the Chevron doctrine, "conservatives and corporate lobbyists began plotting how to harness the favorable ruling in a redoubled quest to whittle down climate, finance, health, labor, and technology regulations in Washington."
"The National Association of Manufacturers, a lobbying group whose board of directors includes top executives from Dow, Caterpillar, ExxonMobil, and Johnson & Johnson, specifically called attention to what it described as regulatory overreach at the [Securities and Exchange Commission] and the Environmental Protection Agency," the Post noted.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the nation's largest corporate lobbying organization, and the American Petroleum Institute were also among the big business groups applauding the fall of Chevron, fueling calls for Congress to codify the doctrine into federal law.
The American Prospect's Hassan Ali Kanu wrote Tuesday that the high court's latest term has "demonstrated how lacking our system is in terms of safeguards that can prevent or correct the Supreme Court when it oversteps its authority or engages in unjustified exercises of power."
"President Joe Biden's commission to explore Supreme Court reform produced a number of viable and sensible options," Kanu continued. "Congress could curtail or end judicial review, the power the court aggregated to itself to exclusively interpret the Constitution."
"Even more modest proposals could further democratize the Court and judiciary, like prohibiting them from declining to apply laws passed by Congress unless they have at least a supermajority vote; or implementing sortition, random assignment, and rotation into the process of appointing or assigning judges to the Supreme Court," he added. "At this point, when a six-member majority is literally declaring a former president who appointed three of them to be functionally above the law, against all prevailing opinion, scholarship, analysis, and experience, the case for court reform couldn't be clearer."
#us politics#news#common dreams#2024#sen. Bernie Sanders#sen. Elizabeth Warren#citizens united#roe v wade#Corner Post Inc. v. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System#Chevron U.S.A. v. Natural Resources Defense Council#Chamber of Commerce#American Petroleum Institute#Hassan Ali Kanu#Environmental Protection Agency#Securities and Exchange Commission#National Association of Manufacturers#scotus reform#scotus ethics
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Western Electric Co, 1954
#Bell Telephone#ad#1954#mid century#phone system#advertisement#Paul Rabut#illustration#Uncle Sam#manufacturing#midcentury#vintage#1950s#telephones#national defense#radar systems#military#guided missiles#mid-century
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By September of 2023 initial meetings took place between WestJet and AMFA where the union’s negotiating committee identified major concerns with the workplace and ultimately some of the reasons they decided to unionize. They identified that the company did not respect seniority, the irregularities in pay scale and some work privileges were eliminated without notice or rationale.
Many of the union’s proposals were “boilerplate” and quickly agreed to tentatively, however there were serious concerns and discussions around staffing still being below pre-COVID levels causing “levels of fatigue that are detrimental to aviation safety.” These concerns continued into December, when further charges were filed against WestJet for staffing concerns and significant changes to the positions inspecting the aircraft.
Throughout bargaining WestJet has been in the driver’s seat getting closer and closer to a labour dispute. It was the company that put the parties on course for a lockout or strike by filing for mediation with the CIRB. It was also the company that alluded to outsourcing the jobs during the collective bargaining process. ...
Following multiple negotiation dates, the employer decided to further the adversarial approach and delivered a 72-hour lockout notice to the negotiation committee and would commence if the parties did not reach a deal by May 7th. A tentative deal was in fact reached by May 5, 2024, which avoided any work stoppage at that time. Throughout the month of May employees reviewed and discussed the tentative agreement which resulted in an overwhelming rejection of 97.25% of employees stating no with a 99% participation rate.
The union took this direction from their membership seriously. They began immediately providing a survey to their membership to get clear direction from them on what they would need for a fair collective agreement. A 97.25% rejection sends a clear message to an employer that they have missed the mark, this is also incredibly important when looking at the participation rate. These employees are involved in their union and are affected deeply by the negotiations of their first collective agreement.
“Members were particularly bitter with the bad faith at the negotiating table. For months at a time, WestJet refused to respond to Union proposals. Frequently, WestJet rejected our proposals without an explanation or with the disdainful rationale that AMEs were not entitled to the same benefits or work rules as pilots. The airline violated the status quo mandated by the Canada Labour Code by outsourcing maintenance work and reducing benefits. WestJet’s lack of respect for its AMEs [Aircraft Maintenance Engineers] contributed mightily to the contract rejection.” Bret Oestreich – AMFA National President
The employer’s response? Cancel scheduled bargaining dates and request the Canadian government to impose a collective agreement on the workplace rather than negotiate a deal between the parties. ... The CIRB has ultimately made the right decision to force the employer to continue with collective bargaining as intended.
#labour rights#westjet#the article also mentions that because the airline is in a labour dispute with its maintenance engineers#(i.e. the ''last line of defense'' against things like boeing's shoddy manufacturing)#safety standards for planes put into the air have dropped
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which two members of the gang are running this scam selling this product next season?
#my vote is for mac and dee#they have some kind of shared or similar experience with unwanted attention from men#and both get pissed off and stumble into some baby feminist ideology about consent#(mac is still a misogynist the whole time and can only manage emotional empathy for women in short bursts)#but it's edgy enough for them because it's self defense and knives and they were both personally affected by the problem#also dennis is fucking furiously defensive and combative the entire episode#because of mac and dee's new views and because of them getting along without him#anyway mac and dee go into business together with this device and are able to keep up the relatively positive messaging for a little while#until they both end up liking the same guy and tearing each other and their business down until it all blows up#ok but listen: then there's another switch-up where they realize the guy fucking sucks#it's trevor all over again#but this time mac and dee come together and figure out a way to ruin this man's life all on their own#girl and boy best friends#meanwhile charlie is in the back probably being put to work manufacturing again#and frank's falling down the stairs#sorry p high still but i don't think that means i'm wrong necessarily
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😂😂😂 · Triangle of Sadness (2022 𝖿іᥣm) ძіr. rᥙᑲᥱᥒ ös𝗍ᥣᥙᥒძ · ძᥲrk ᥴ᥆mᥱძᥡ · ᥴᥲ⍴і𝗍ᥲᥣіsm · s᥆ᥴіᥲᥣ ȷᥙs𝗍іᥴᥱ
#filmedit#triangle of sadness#social satire#merchants of death#anti capitalism#filmgifs#film#ruben östlund#triangle of sadness 2022#oliver ford davies#amanda walker#arms dealers#weapons manufacturing#defense industry#anti capitalism explained#military industrial complex#moviegifs#movie
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There are so many reasons that Barba defending Wheatley was a dumb ass choice for the show.
But. One that really, really bugs me is his doing it to protect Olivia. And while it's so paternalistic and annoying it's not what really gets my goat.
No. It's the fact that we're supposed to believe that Rafael Barba did not prepare and plan for the eventuality that a defense attorney would question her credibility waaay back in 2014 when her confession press conference first aired.
Or at least once she was not indicted and was back on the job.
There is NO WAY he did not run thru this possibility with Liv at the time. No way he did not come up with strategies. No way he didn't fucking grill her on handling these questions, getting comfortable with some verbal tap dancing to avoid committing further perjury but not actual admit to the perjury committed at the Lewis trial.
NO WAY he just crossed his fingers that it would never come up during a trial.
Also, we're expected to believe that no defense attorney went after her about this on cross? For what, 8 fucking years? That the first time any of the various defense attorneys brought it up was because...Richard Wheatley was the defendant?
Not any of the high powered or connected defendants that have been tried in the past 8 years? Just an attorney for Wheatley would play that card.
Yeah fucking right. Bullshit. Complete and utter bullshit.
#svu#yeah yeah yeah. they wanted the draaaaama of Rafa being the defense attorney#but it was stupid cheap drama and unbelievable to boot#and that's not even touching on the absolute buuuuuuuuullshit of his saying Wheatley is innocent because charges were dropped#come the fuck on. he was a got danged ADA. he Knows charges are dropped all the time when deals are made. and he knew#that the Feds had made a deal. are we really supposed to buy that Rafa bought Wheatley's act? come the fuck on#are we supposed to buy that Rafa thinks the fact Wheatley had soooo much info to pass to the Feds. could help them get so many#criminals put away and that it was all because he was...a legit businessman who just...what. stumbled across various criminal enterprises?#BULLSHIT. such bullshit. and even the 'Stabler just wants revenge and manufactured evidence' was bullshit#if it was just pure revenge he was after. then he would have let Wheatley die during the hit. but instead he and Bell rescued him#fucking explain that Rafa. come the fuck on. UGH. so much bullshit just to shoehorn Barba as the attorney for Wheatley
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guess what made the front page of the ny times today
#not to mention all the tv networks in the uk too suddenly giving coverage to the israeli 'defense'#it's all so transparent................. it's all so transparent and the thing is it works and they get away with it!!!!!!#they'll throw a moderately sympathetic article here or there so it doesn't look quite so bad. a little more or less depending on the networ#maybe have someone speaking on behalf of palestinian rights on for an interview (where they get disrespected constantly)#(and the entire framework of questions asked is always egregiously biased and even cruel)#enough that zionists can scream about even the smallest morsels given to palestinians being unfair and biased media so they look neutral#although all the data backs up how wildly pro-israel the media actually is. 💀 from journalists being forced out of the nyt#to the amount of coverage and language used and questions asked and statements reported as fact that turned out to be lies#but they'll do just enough that they can pretend to hold any shreds of journalistic integrity to appease their critics#while still framing the entire narrative and manufacturing consent for genocide. and it works time and time again.#i'm just! fucking! sick of it!#palestine#personal spam
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Have an interview for a position at a different manufacturer that both pays better than my current position and has a four day work week but after a little bit of research they have contracts with the DOD
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God it's so exhausting that the myth of personal responsibility has seeped its way into leftist discourse and undermines any idea of collective action by just letting things be certain "bad" people's fault instead of actually understanding the way that these structures are reinforced and working to find a way to fix them.
#context: saw someone complaining about engineers working for defense contractors#like its their fault that the us government is still slaughtering children in the name of military supremacy#or like them starving in the streets will hurt a corporation that makes its money by turning people into paste.#It can only be hurt through money#and even if every engineer and manufacturer walked out?#theyd just make it somewhere cheaper#Its why yhey can threaten congress members with moving a factory to overturn basically any regulation they might be doing
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In late May, 19 Republican attorneys general filed a complaint with the Supreme Court asking it to block climate change lawsuits seeking to recoup damages from fossil fuel companies.
All of the state attorneys general who participated in the legal action are members of the Republican Attorneys General Association (RAGA), which runs a cash-for-influence operation that coordinates the official actions of these GOP state AGs and sells its corporate funders access to them and their staff. The majority of all state attorneys general are listed as members of RAGA.
Where does RAGA get most of its funding? From the very same fossil fuel industry interests that its suit seeks to defend. In fact, the industry has pumped nearly $5.8 million into RAGA’s campaign coffers since Biden was elected in 2020.
The recent Supreme Court complaint has been deemed “highly unusual” by legal experts.
The attorneys general claim that Democratic states, which are bringing the climate-related suits at issue in state courts, are effectively trying to regulate interstate emissions or commerce, which are under the sole purview of the federal government. Fossil fuel companies have unsuccessfully made similar arguments in their own defense.
RAGA’s official actions — and those of its member attorneys general — closely align with the goals of its biggest donors.
The group, a registered political nonprofit that can raise unlimited amounts of cash from individuals and corporations, solicits annual membership fees from corporate donors in exchange for allowing those donors to shape legal policy via briefings and other interactions with member attorneys general.
A Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) analysis of IRS filings since November 24, 2020 shows that Koch Industries (which recently rebranded) leads as the largest fossil fuel industry donor to RAGA, having donated $1.3 million between 2021 and June 2024.
Other large donors include:
• American Petroleum Institute (API), the oil and gas industry’s largest trade association
• Southern Company Services, a gas and electric utility holding company
• Valero Services, a petroleum refiner
• NextEra Energy Resources, which runs both renewable and natural gas operations
• Anschutz Corporation, a Denver-based oil and gas company
• American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers, a major trade organization
• Exxon Mobil, one of the largest fossil fuel multinationals in the world
• National Mining Association, the leading coal and mineral industry trade organization
• American Chemical Council, which represents major petrochemical producers and refiners
Many of these donors are being sued for deceiving the public about the role fossil fuels play in worsening climate change: many states — including California, Connecticut, Minnesota, New Jersey, and Rhode Island — as well as local governments — such as the city of Chicago and counties in Oregon and Pennsylvania — have all filed suits against a mix of fossil fuel companies and their industry groups. In the cases brought by New York and Massachusetts, ExxonMobil found support from Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who filed a friend-of-the-court brief in defense of the corporation.
Paxton has accepted $5.2 million in campaign contributions from the oil and gas industry over the past 10 years, according to data compiled by OpenSecrets and reviewed by CMD.
Fossil Fuel Contributions to the Republican Attorneys General Association Includes aggregate contributions of $10K or more from the period November 2020 to March 2024.
Note: This funding compilation does not include law firms, front groups, or public relations outfits that work on behalf of fossil fuel clients, many of which use legal shells to shield themselves from outright scrutiny. For example, Koch Industries, through its astroturf operation Americans for Prosperity, has deployed a shell legal firm in a major Supreme Court case designed to dismantle the federal government’s regulatory authority.
CARRYING BIG OIL’S WATER
This is far from the first time RAGA members have banded together to try to defeat clean energy and environmental regulations. In 2014, the New York Times initially reported on how RAGA circulates fossil fuel industry propaganda opposing federal regulations.
The Times investigation revealed thousands of documents exposing how oil and gas companies cozied up to Republican attorneys general to push back against President Obama’s regulatory agenda. “Attorneys general in at least a dozen states are working with energy companies and other corporate interests, which in turn are providing them with record amounts of money for their political campaigns,” the investigation found. That effort, which RAGA dubbed the Rule of Law campaign, has since morphed into RAGA’s political action arm, the nonprofit Rule of Law Defense Fund (RLDF).
Since then, RAGA’s appetite to go to bat for the industry has only grown.
In 2015, less than two weeks after representatives from fossil fuel companies and related trade groups attended a RAGA conference, Republican AGs petitioned federal courts to block the Obama administration’s signature climate proposal, as CMD has previously reported. Additional reporting revealed collusion between Republican AGs and industry lobbyists to defend ExxonMobil and obstruct climate change legislation.
There was also the 2016 secret energy summit that RAGA held in West Virginia with industry leaders, along with private meetings with fossil fuel companies to coordinate how to shield ExxonMobil from legal scrutiny. Later that year, West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey — aided by 19 other Republican AGs — successfully brought a case before the court that hobbled Obama’s signature climate plan.
Morrisey is currently leading the Republican effort to take down an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulation that targets coal-fired power plants.
Often, the attorneys general bringing these cases share many of the same donors who backed the confirmation of Republican-appointed Supreme Court justices, as pointed out by the New York Times.
And in 2021, Republican attorneys general from 19 states sent a letter to the U.S. Senate committees on Environment and Public Works and on Energy and Natural Resources hoping to persuade senators to vote against additional regulations on highly polluting methane emissions, a leading contributor to global warming.
Since 2022, RLDF’s “ESG Working Group” has been coordinating actions taken by Republican AGs against sustainable investing. Communications from that group obtained by CMD show that it was investigating Morningstar/Sustainalytics and the Net-Zero Banking Alliance. Republican AGs announced investigations into the six largest banks for information on their involvement in the Net-Zero Banking Alliance later that year.
LEGACY OF RIGHT-WING ACTIONS
It’s not only about fossil fuels. Attorneys general who are members of — and financially backed by — RAGA have a long track record of pursuing right-wing agendas. In Mississippi, Attorney General Lynn Fitch helped bring the legal case that ultimately overturned Roe v. Wade. In Texas, Paxton has attempted to overturn the Affordable Care Act and sued the federal government over Title IX civil rights protections, and safeguards for seasonal workers, among other policy irritants to the far Right. With support from fellow Republican AGs, he also led one of many efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
In recent years, other pro-corporate major donors have included The Concord Fund, which is controlled by Trump’s “court whisperer” Leonard Leo, Big Tobacco, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Institute for Legal Reform.
#us politics#news#EXPOSEDbyCMD#truthout#2024#republicans#conservatives#attorneys general#us supreme court#climate change lawsuits#climate change#global warming#Republican Attorneys General Association#Center for Media and Democracy#Koch Industries#Americans for Prosperity#American Petroleum Institute#Southern Company Services#Valero Services#NextEra Energy Resources#Anschutz Corporation#American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers#Exxon Mobil#National Mining Association#American Chemical Council#ken paxton#Rule of Law Defense Fund#Patrick Morrisey#environmental protection agency#Net-Zero Banking Alliance
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Three Seconds.
Rick runs his tongue across his teeth, finds a split above his left canine sluggishly oozing blood. He presses into it, the wound covering his soft pallet with liquid-iron. He used to love the taste of blood, it was exciting, made him see red. That was a long time ago, back when he was with the flesh curtains, doing mostly earth coke in the galactic equivalent of shitty truck stops. Now the taste just pisses him off, reminds him that some nameless waste of carbon actually got a hit in. He can feel a drop of spit and blood plop onto his thigh. He spits and the blood splatters a lurid pink against the concrete floor. He'd wipe his face, but his hands are tied around his back, zip ties of all things dig irritating impressions into the thin skin against his wrist. His knees ache where they're pressed against the floor below him, the cold seeping in through his pant legs and promising a good week of creaking pain if he manages to make it out of this shit hole alive. Fuck, he's too old for this shit.
Rick is pulled very sharply from his thoughts when he hears the door open behind him, followed by strong, steady foot falls and much lighter shuffling ones. He recognizes the later, and his guess is confirmed when Morty stumbles into his line of sight. He doesn't look hurt, his clothes are dirty and there's dust sticking to the tear tracks along his cheeks, but no pain graces his features. Just fear. If it weren't for Morty he'd already be out of here, fucking plastic zip ties were the last thing that would stop The Rick Sanchez. His captor knew that though, and they both knew that the ties were really more of a formality anyway. So yeah, he could've left an hour ago, but with the couple of blows to the side of his head knocking loose his augmentation controls he wasn't convinced he'd find Morty wherever they were keeping him on their ramshackle compound before they decided to take him out back and put the sorry little bastard down.
Speaking of, there's a laser gun pressed snug against the base of Morty's skull. Their kidnapper is a Melvonian, bipedal and mostly humanoid apart from their second set of arms, eyes and various other appendages. Wink. This one is male, about middle aged for his species, his skin tone an admittedly pretty shade of mauve. It's a shame, the guys hot, too bad as soon as he lets his guard down he'll be dead. "Morning Sanchez, I've brought your little buddy. Say Hi little buddy." The man grins, shaking Morty by the bruising grip on his bicep. "Ow, H-hi, grandpa Rick." he winces. "So here's the deal. We've got a really important fight coming up, and that portal tech of yours sure would come in handy." "I don't get involved in interstellar politics, and neither does my badass tech. Bite me." The guy shoves the gun harder against Morty's head, eliciting a squeak of fear and causing his knees to wobble like a new born calf. "Don't interrupt me." Rick rolls his eyes, but stays quiet. For Now.
Rick can see the twitch in one of the mans four eyes, he's still smiling, but he looks angry, a little crazed. Damn, it really is a shame this dude's gotta die. Forgive him for thinking with his dick here, but crazy is pretty much the only type that can keep up with Rick for too long, and the guys got two sets of pecs. Drool. "As I was saying, your tech would help us a lot. Someone from my group has tried and failed to get the machine from you peacefully. Clearly peaceful is not a approach you sway to. Now it's my turn. So here is my ultimatum: Give us a working portal gun and blueprints to build more, or I send a laser through your grandson's head. Simple, no?" He cocks his head to the side, tone light, like he's discussing which restaurant he wants to go to and he's not the perpetrator of a goddamn hostage situation. Morty has been so quiet, eyes trained on Rick. It unnerves him, the genuine panic on his grandson's face. He needs to focus.
Rick's been doing some mental math, trying to figure out how to get through the zip ties and the gun out of this big idiots hand before he pulls the trigger. He can see the safety is on, but he'd recognize a Fentel 16 anywhere, and you can bypass the safety by pressing down the trigger and holding for three seconds. Kinda always struck Rick as defeating the purpose of the safety, but the Fentel series is pretty much exclusively used by criminals, so the company only put a safety on the thing in the first place to get past Galactic Federation manufacturing guidelines. He's not sure he can get to Morty in 3 seconds from here. He needs to think of something, fast. "Listen muscle man, I'm telling you I'm not giving you or your little gang my portal tech. I don't care how righteous you think your cause is, there's a billion other warmongering douchebags in this star system alone who think the exact same thing. I'm not contributing to that." The guys fucking built. Rick isn't short by any means, a cool 6'4" un-slouched, but this guy has at least a foot or so on him. Plus he's pretty sure the dudes forearm is at least the size of his thigh; side note again: Drool. Anyway, he's not sure he can take him in a wrestling match for that gun, especially considering the two extra arms. If Morty reacted quick enough maybe, but the kids little wrists are bound like Ricks are, and he looks scared enough to be nauseous. Rick can't count on him on this one.
"I've been following you a long time, I can tell when you're stalling." Rick can talk a fish out of water on good days, but revolutionary types are a notoriously stubborn breed. He'd know, he was one. Still is, though its been a while since he's been in a fight over anything but his own self-interest. That thought stings just a little. Don't have time for that one, Back in the vault it goes. Rick can see Morty trembling, and can see his chest stuttering when he holds his breath to stop the shakes. It makes Rick's chest hurt a little, like something in there was knocked loose the same time his augmentations were. Rick stops looking at him. "Morty's a shit bargaining chip by the way, Broh. I've got a coupon for a new one from the citadel in my back pocket right now." Rick bares his teeth, smells his own blood on his breath. "Besides, I've been to your pitiful little planet shit for brains, I know your species has a thing about killing kids. You're all too sentimental." Their captor laughs, two of his four eyes squeezed shut in mirth, the other two still diligently trained on Rick "For The Rick Sanchez? I'm willing to make an exception." He grins, double canines glittering blue-white as he switches the safety off and the gun comes alive with a mechanical hum, neon purple lights flicking on incrementally, indicating the charge.
Fuck, there go his three seconds.
#tadaaa#rick and morty#fanfiction#rick and morty fanfiction#r&m#writing#Melvonians#alien species i made up for this fic. theyve got four arms. four eyes. a set of human-ish genitalia. skin tones range from blue to red.#will probably build a little more for them? their planet is called Milvos. theyre decently technologically advanced.#theyre under galactic federation jurisdiction obvi. but at the time of this writing theyre in the midst of a civil war abt planetary border#basically theres rlly only a few habitable portions of their planet. and theres government bodies controlling those portions. they require#certain prereqs for individuals to gain access to those places. theres a sizable group(that this guy is apart of) who believe these borders#shouldnt exist and cause unnecessary and avoidable harm.#thats why the want the portal gun tech. to infiltrate these gorvernment bodies and either demand change or execute dissenters.#the fentel series of lazer guns r manufactured by tentellis corp. mainly a weapons manufacturer#but they do some defense/security stuff too. mostly lasers tbh.#the fentel series is one of like 7 or 8 gun series theyve made. fentel series are hand-guns#theyre on of the better mid-priced hand guns. so theyre very common#anyway no one cares abt my pretend guns#G-126#dats this rick and mortys designation btw#g-126 morty is much less competent/confident then c-137#hes skittish but much more sincere and empathetic. this in part bc g-126 rick is a comparetively tender guy#like theyre still assholes dont get me wrong. but g-126 takes shit way mire seriously. he makes it clear he cares about his family.#that gives morty the room to b vulnerable more often. which in turn helps him retain at least Some of his childlike traits#uh idk i might write more about this dimension. diane didnt get like. blown up they just divorced LOL#bc rick is still rick and he was kinda too young when he got diane preggers#also rick is autistic and so is morty because i said so#they bond over it. although rick is an asshole abt it. but he does let morty info dump on him abt shit he already knows so.#uh wow writing a novel in the tags sorry
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Damn so Calore Enterprise does like mafia type stuff?
Think more:
Making the weapons of today, so you don't have to worry about other countries making them and using them to kill us all tomorrow 😌
#(*ask lily*)#(*shut up lily*)#meet me at our spot#MM@OS#it's never going to be important to the plot I swear#I just always thought it was what their family would be doing#since weapons manufacturing is practically holding hands and skipping with politics#and everyone knows the money is where the guns are#at least that's how it is in the west#*side eyes the US government spending over a billion dollars on defense rather than infastrucutre#but that's none of my business 😇☕️
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#I'm not saying I'm perfect; but I'm saying I can at least cite places where I've changed my mind when given new evidence#I used to be hardline pacifist; shut down all military everywhere type thinking#but I saw the horror of what was happening in Ukraine#and it didn't take much for me to see that the only solution was to give them the weapons to defend themselves with#and sadly that means I have to admit that weapons manufacture does serve a purpose and is required even if it shouldn't be#and it means... fucking having to admit the DOD needs to exist even though I hate them#doesn't mean I don't get to think that they need to... you know... pass a fucking audit#and doesn't mean I don't think they need to be reigned in; that there's dangers to opaque cultures like military culture#and it doesn't mean... doesn't mean I like the army or the military industrial complex#just that... as I understand more about defense economics and logistics... I against what I want to see#begin to see points to making large numbers of missiles and shit because... quantity of production can bring prices down#you can end up getting a lot more for the same price; and... and you can sell them; which again I morally oppose but...#I'm coming to accept is just a fact of life when you have people willing to invade their neighbor#maybe you should sell them some weapons; recoup some of the insane spending you've done; and give them tools to defend themselves#I fucking changed my mind on this despite frankly finding it all abhorrent and thinking the US is run like a shit show#because sometimes the reality of things has to win out over what I think should be the reality of things#and sometimes the wellbeing of Ukrainians outweighs if I believe in war or not#I may not fucking be close to perfect; and there's probably plenty of places I'm wrong about shit#hell; even here I could actually somehow be wrong#(though I'm sorry... it's hard to see the people suffering horribly and not think they need to be able to defend themselves)#but at least I fucking am capable of changing my mind... which I feel like is more than some of you#you'll never fucking acknowledge that you might be doing great great great harm based purely on belief#while I in disagreeing with you at least admit I could be wrong but am acting on my best information#at least I fucking stumble and grope my way through life without the knowledge of good and evil#I'd far rather than then boldly stomp my way through life so certain I'm right; the bodies under my boots be damned#fuck you for your dogmatic points of you; and worst of all fuck you for not even meaning to be cruel or cause pain#yet still closing your eyes to any pain you do cause because you know you're actually right#you spin every last thing that defies what you believe till it only reinforces it#and I see no way to get you to sit down at the table and try and figure out what's best for everyone#because you'd just boldly proclaim you already knew and demand I agree
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If maintained, a production rate of 3,000 vehicles per week would result in an annual rate of 150,000 vehicles.
Tesla Gigafactory Berlin is currently only producing the Model Y. Once it reached a production capacity of 5,000 vehicles per week, the automaker is expected to start adding new models to the factory’s production schedule(..)
It looks like the goal of 5,000 vehicles per week will not be achievable by the end of the year, but 3,000 is not bad considering the circumstances(..)
P.S. Tesla's growing production volume at Giga Berlin saturates the premium car market with electric cars in Europe and actually reduces the consumption of petroleum products...At a time when the premium car market will be saturated with electric cars, competition among manufacturers will also intensify in the affordable compact class car market, and this niche will most likely be occupied by Chinese car manufacturers, if European car companies continue to ignore the most modern electric car design principles and efficient production technologies...
#Germany#Giga Berlin#ev manufacturing#ev adoption#Tesla#very good news#fossil fuel phase-out#defense of europe#russian defeat#energy safety#energy independence
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