Yeah - you fight with what you have. If what you have isn’t exactly what you need, you fuck around with it until it is. Battlefield exigencies trump “you’re doing it wrong”/“that’s not what it’s for”. If you’re in a life and death situation, and you really fucking need a hammer, and all you have is an iPad… well, the iPad becomes a hammer.
Well actually, I believe he did just unblock long-range strikes into Russian territory.
But in terms of our national policy not trying to play the fucking nanny in the war: I think that’s not changing until Harris gets in. Biden is SUPER ossified in how he thinks of Russia.
That’s surprisingly economical for that level or capability, if I’m honest.
That, or it’s a mistranslation/inaccurate description. Maybe they’re playing around with drone-launched javelins, which would honestly be pretty fucking rad.
Get out of my head charles
In the end, it doesn’t even matter
She angry cuz she caught him gettin’ naughty with the LINANÄS
It’s a problem of psychology and scale. The communist system becomes susceptible to bad actors the larger the group becomes.
In point of fact: I fully agree that many Latin countries, absent US bullshittery, intervention, and fomenting of coups in the first Cold War, would probably mostly have wound up being successful.
But I absolutely do not agree that the USSR or the PRC should be held up as paragons of virtue of what a Communist system should be. They were very quickly corrupted by authoritarian leaders and cliques from the get go, which is genuinely antithetical to true communism.
But also:
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To be clear, that was authoritarianism, not communism.
What fucking idiot greenlit that to be included in the festival in the first place? The fact that it needed to be protested and removed from the program is absurd.
Stream your games to your TV. It works great.
You seem to be under the impression that it’s good if this place grows explosively. It’s not. There’s no VC to pay back here (and thank fuckin god for that). There’s no ad revenue here (again, this is good).
Also, not entirely sure what exactly to make of the weirdly targeted quip about a Chinese child, but spidey sense says it’s nothing good.
Works for a lot of topics that certain users around here are trying to force everyone to perceive as literally the only thing that matters.
It sucks that that one tree you really care a lot about got vandalized, burnt, and cut down, but you gotta realize there’s a whole fuckin lot more trees out there that we still CAN save. This commentary should be taken in both a literal and a figurative sense.
I’m all about paying my fair share of taxes, but the way our tax laws are set up are utterly asinine, and they’re the way they are because tax prep companies literally spend millions of dollars every year lobbying to keep them complicated, because the complexity is literally the foundational aspect of their entire business model. I am absolutely not going to defend how insane and Byzantine US tax law is, nor should anyone.
IRS:
You gotta do a bunch of math, and if you fuck it up, you go to jail
But there’s so much seamen in the navy already
SPAA is going to come back in a big way in the coming years. The effectiveness of these things in Ukraine is crazy.
I don’t think the Gepards support the round type, but some of the new precision-fused airburst rounds (the fuses are wirelessly individually set as it passes through the muzzle, AFTER round velocity is measured a dozen or so cm back (!!!) for maximum burst precision) are crazy. It’s like flak, but it knows EXACTLY where it needs to pop to frag the target, instead of “1000m +/- 100m”.
And then there’s directed energy, which is also going to get interesting.