Buelldozer

Why is anyone usi5any of them? They’re all clogged toilets overflowing the same shit onto the flower.

Yes I do.

Thank you for this. I know some people won’t appreciate it but not every community needs to be a full time political outlet.

I wish the United States would end it’s embargo with Cuba. The moves toward doing that were, IMHO, one of the bright spots of the Obama Administration.

As a libertarian myself Milei is an idiot for following the United States on this. True libertarians, not those Mises Caucus assholes, are generally not okay with these kinds of trade barriers.

2016 was an absolute shit show on Reddit. It was a dogfight between the Bernie Bros and the Trumpers until Bernie got knocked out of the primaries then knocked off Reddit by CTR. Then it was a dogfight between the ShillDawgs and the MAGAts with the t_d’ers eventually coming out on top because of their willingness to endlessly game the Reddit algorithm.

Where do you go for such discussions anyway?

The closest I’ve ever found was a heavily moderated sub on Reddit. I have no idea if its still any good or not because I haven’t been there in over a year.

Everyone blaming Trump (fuck that guy) is missing the forest for the trees.

Europe should have ceased relying on the United States for security as soon as it substantially recovered from WWII. That it didn’t has been a bone of contention since before the collapse of the U.S.S.R.

IMO, the most effective method weapon would be a steam roller

The most effective weapon would be a steam roller equipped with a machine gun that fires lightsabers.

For instance, suppressing fire; you can’t suppress zombies, because they don’t care if they get shot, and it only matters if they get shot in the head.

This makes my teeth itch. I realize that this is NCD but…

Without claiming outright magic damage to muscle and bone still matters. A bipedal creature absolutely requires certain muscles and bones to remain upright. If a zombie gets hit with a rifle round that blows out a 3" chunk of its spine then it can’t stand up. That kind of damage is easily done with a 30 caliber rifle round (7.76) let alone the venerable .50 caliber. Even the relatively small .223 / 5.56 that’s carried by standard infantry will remove muscle and break bones.

Your average grunt is going to figure out real quick where and how they need to shoot in order to slow or stop these things. If head shots aren’t possible and it takes too much ammo for body shots they’ll start aiming for the knees and ankles, because again that zombie can’t run / shamble at you if it has no feet or it’s ankle or knee has been blown into a hundred pieces.

So when Tommy Tactical or Isaac Infantry mag dumps 20 rounds of 5.56 into a zombie it may not be “dead” but it sure as shit has taken critical damage to its musculoskeletal system and will almost certainly not able to stand upright. Ol’ Mike the Mighty on the Ma Deuce will reduce a hundred zombies into a quivering pile in 60 seconds or less all by himself.

That zombie horde will be a lot less dangerous and easy to clean up once it’s crawling on the ground with all the speed of a toddler.

Russia is teetering on the brink of it right now.

I have no idea what is or isn’t a lot of data for a university beyond scaling how much stuff is on my own PC

Yeah, judged on a “home user” scale 150TB may seem like a lot but it really isn’t when you’re talking about Government / University / Enterprise.

Just one of the servers I have under management is currently using 49TB and there’s another one in that rack using 40TB. That ~90TB (over half of what’s in the article) for just two servers in a single rack at a single company.

BIG data amounts are measured in Petabytes or Exabytes.

High resolution still images and video will get you there pretty easily.

The Russians couldn’t, or chose not too, afford to build their own and they’ve been paying for that mistake since they started this damn War.

I have to be misunderstanding this

You’re not.

How fucking dumb are these people?

Yes it’s dumber than a bucket of hair but you have to reflect on how they ended up here. Russia started a 21st Century war with a 20th Century Soviet built military. Back then a field radio was the size of your damn chest and they weren’t even issued at the platoon level. That shit obviously isn’t going to work on the modern battlefield where they have to control drones, guided artillery, distribute real time high resolution satellite imagery, and the battle lines shift by the hour instead of monthly.

The Soviet’s didn’t need these things and because they hadn’t been invented yet Russia showed up without them and promptly got cock-slapped by Western backed Ukrainian forces who were vastly more prepared because The West, including both military and private companies, spent literally Trillions of dollars investing in a robust and secure communications infrastructure.

The Russian Army absolutely required this kind of communications infrastructure to function on a modern battlefield but it didn’t exist so they did what they always do and applied their “Ingenuity” to the problem. They came up with using things like private Discord rooms, piggybacking on Ukraine’s cellular infrastructure, and hijacking Starlink; basically using the same Western tech that Ukraine was using.

So in the contest of not have anything at all and using tech that was subject to Western spying the Russian Military, at least at some level, chose the latter.

It seems that perhaps the Russian MoD has decided that the Western spying has become to pervasive and is shutting down these cobble-together communication and control systems but that’s going to put the field level operations right back to where they were 2 years ago.

You can’t win a 21st Century fight with 20th Century systems. It’s like playing a game of Civilization where you’ve got Aircraft Carriers and the other player is attacking you with Canoes.

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Dammit! Why did I mistype that?

Obviously it should be RHPS. Sigh.

If you ever decide you want to see it please for the love of Tim Curry don’t watch it on TV.

The only way to experience RHCP is at a theater, movie or stage, with a floor show. Without the floor show you will not get what makes RHCP an adored Cult Classic. Seriously, the floor show is what makes (or breaks) the RHCP experience.

If you walk into the show and you’re not surrounded by people in costumes spouting weird lines, or if you don’t see them in the aisles within the first 90 seconds of the show starting then you may as well get up and leave.

The education system collapsed with the death of the USSR so even before the War in Ukraine started they didn’t have enough Engineers and Technicians to make their country work. Their population has been declining for decades and COVID killed another Million. Then ~700,000 people, mostly men, fled the country when the War started. Then another ~500,000, again mostly men, fled the country when the first conscription was announced. Those 1.2 Million people, mostly men, were likely the ones with the education or trade skills that Russia could really use right now.

If that wasn’t enough Russia has suffered over 600,000 casualties in Ukraine and is now seeking to replace losses with a 3rd round of conscription, so there goes another 130,000 people out of the labor pool.

Russia is now eating its demographic and economic seed corn trying to support a war that has no possibility of a positive outcome. The death spiral is locked in and I’m predicting a collapse of the Russian state no later than 2035.

I was a Freshman in High School when I found my parents sex library and I read every damn one of those things, including “The Joy of Sex”, at least twice. While others were still fumbling around trying to figure out basic mechanics I was busy getting busy…very busy.

Edit: I tracked down the “Joy of Lesbian Sex” early in my Junior year of High School. That knowledge was amazingly useful until I graduated College and got married.

Parents who don’t educate their kids on Sex, and adults who never bother educating themselves about Sex are making a huge mistake.

They could expand their industry,

They’ve been doing that for over a year and I’m confident that they’ve hit their limit. Their current unemployment rate is estimated at 3.8%, salaries are skyrocketing as industries compete with each other for available workers, and inflation is out of control. Those are all strong indicators that their labor pool has turned into a puddle.

The only way they could expand any further is to start using migrant labor and who the hell, aside from North Koreans and maybe some Chinese, are going to migrate into Russia right now? Especially in sufficient numbers to make any kind of a difference.

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