Update: Yakovlev OKB engineer Yevgeny Lebedev still has the model of the Yak-39 in his possession. Here's what the Forger with a redesigned wing, increased fuel capacity, and the N019 radar could've looked like by 1985 had the Yak-41 and its protracted development not intervened.

Apropos the SNAP discourse: 44% of adults on SNAP are obese. A further 28% are overweight. Only 2.5% are underweight I found that nugget a while back in a USDA report

Donald Trump in 2005, at a press conference in which he proposed rebuilding the Twin Towers.

The modern world's approach to humor is best-described by C. S. Lewis (in the persona of the demon Screwtape) "Flippancy is ... very economical. Only a clever human can make a real Joke about virtue, or indeed about anything else; any of them can be trained to talk as if virtue

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Some people seem to think this is an ad strategy. It's not. Failure to get to the point is the most telltale sign of amateur content production across all media. People aren't going to stick around and watch any ads if you spend the first five minutes of your video talking about

It would be really funny if we inadvertently psyopped the Chinese into adopting EMALS and then proceeded to drop it for our own new construction programs.

French-made Renault R35 tanks in Romanian service on the move in Ukraine in 1941

16th century Vatican-ran UFO crash retrieval operation

The coolest thing about "For You" switching to showing people nothing but ragebait is that even if I'm using "Following" I get to see all the ragebait anyway since my mutuals are all engaging with it. 10/10, no notes.

Integrity is the courage to follow truth wherever it leads. That is what set James Watson apart from Richard Dawkins. Race is real, its effects measurable and very relevant. Truth means nothing if it changes nothing.

This tweet perfectly illustrates how appeals to social justice are often used to mask policies that advance corporate power and labor exploitation. Private equity consolidation in the ski industry has caused consumer costs to skyrocket, eroded local resort cultures, and replaced

Original color footage of a US Navy Airship Early Warning Squadron 2 K-class blimp landing on and taking off from the escort carrier USS Mindoro circa April 1950

REVISE: Knocked out Egyptian Czech-made SD-100 SPG in Port Said 5 November 1956; thanks to Phoenix for correct ID of Czech-produced SD-100 and not a Soviet SU-100

NAS Fallon, F-5N Tiger II and F/A-18A Hornet agressor aircraft of VFA-127 originally established in 1962 flying A-4 Skyhawk to provide fleet replacement and attack training. Transition to Adversary Role: By late 1970s, squadron’s mission shifted to adversary training