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- Comment on The Odds Are Good When The Goods Are Odd 2 days ago:
I know theyre already looking to strip the power to set the agenda in the legislature from the lt. Governor.
- Comment on The Odds Are Good When The Goods Are Odd 2 days ago:
And we have to keep it going. For as long as ive lived in the state its been purple, but overwhelmingly went red because of gerrymandering, and more importantly lack of engagement by democratic voters. They felt it was pointless, because republicans always win, and controlled so much of the government. I assumed even if dems turned out that there would be shenanigans to prevent a republican loss. Yet here we are.
- Comment on Things you feel Star Trek handle poorly? (In general, political, technical, etc, share your opinion) 5 days ago:
Replicators use a base of neutral material that the system finds easy to use for turning into other stuff. For this kind of specialized application you might use materials close to the end result lowering the energy usage to extend the life of the unit. In DS9 they had self replicating mines that were networked so that the surrounding mines would replicate a detonated mine using the material of the detonated mine.
The real problem is shields. A slugthrower would be completely negated by a personal shield. Against a beam weapon it depends on how much energy it can absorb per second vs. what the beam can shoot.
- Comment on $1.8 trillion was wiped out from the US stock market yesterday, where did it go? 1 week ago:
Some people were getting bank loans based on that imaginary money.
- Comment on Patrick Stewart gives himself a eulogy. Just for Laughs - Montreal, 2015 1 week ago:
I literally saw that yesterday
- Comment on how Fandom tourists react when i cover their house with shit: 1 week ago:
That’s a fun little image there, but i dont know what your title means.
- Comment on How come there has never been a second WPA enacted by Roosevelt? Did it not help America by leaps and bounds? 2 weeks ago:
When the great recession hit in 2008 there was talk of another WPA style program. But conservatives have been for generations trying to prove the original was not really all that good… no really! And the democrats pivoted to healthcare.
- Comment on I'd send her with the card if she'd go 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on I'd send her with the card if she'd go 3 weeks ago:
My good them, if you want the lady bird to come to you, you must first show her your plumage.
- Comment on I'd send her with the card if she'd go 3 weeks ago:
Where it yourself coward!
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- Comment on Classic Move 1 month ago:
Unlikely, I’m shit at makeup.
- Comment on Classic Move 1 month ago:
Maybe it was a joke, maybe it was just that they saw something in me that i couldn’t quite see in myself yet.
- Comment on Oof 1 month ago:
Thats because rowling was writing a story about maintaining the status quo. Its interesting just how much she wrote overtly class conscious inequality, like wizards being an isolated superior class who can act with impunity on muggles, but then hand waves it as appropriate and good because the alternative is “bad”.
- Comment on It do be like that 2 months ago:
There’s plenty of girls that bonded with an obscure ps2 game in their youth. Xenosaga was the shit.
- Comment on Funny how that works 2 months ago:
It’s God’s will. /s
- Comment on Meme check point. 2 months ago:
- Comment on Cybersecurity as a Creative Writing major 2 months ago:
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- Comment on PICTURES OF SPIDER-WOMAN'S BOOBS but, like, not in a sexual harassment way 2 months ago:
There’s also been conspiracy theorizing that the color choices for gwen in spider-verse suggest she transitioned. I forget where i saw it though.
- Comment on Not to arm chair general it. How come the US doesn't get a bunch of helicopters over to the Lincoln with food meds and whatever? How did it get this bad where we can't supply our own ships? 2 months ago:
So a lot of people are saying supply chain or logistics without really explaining well. So I’ll give it a try.
It is impossible to overstate how important supply lines are to fighting a war. Each branch of the military has a whole arm of their organization dedicated to getting supplies to where they are needed. In any given war this means setting up regular purchases of supplies, bases to aggregate those supplies, routes with bases for each leg of the journey of those supplies, and bases at the destination of those supplies. With dedicated protection for all those parts of the journey. Which still has to get from the in-theater supply hub to the front.
Ideally for a carrier group you would use massive supply ships in a daisy chain to maintain a continuous flow of supplies. The supply hub isnt supposed to be close enough to come under enemy fire, and helicopters are relatively short range and not suitable for this purpose.
So the problem is that iran has shown that with drones it can hit big slow ships in the gulf, and regionally can hit anywhere with balistic missiles and drones. So they damaged or destroyed most us regional bases, hitting the main supply hub.
What to do about that? Well they could set up another regional hub, but that would probably get hit too. They can use a base far enough away to not get hit, but that means relying on more big slow ships to maintain the steady flow, but they would need protection, except ts hard to say what protection can be given against suicide drones.
This is would be a huge headache or any career general with a lifetime of experience. What they have is a drunk tv personality who surrounds himself with sycophants, and who’s taking orders from a geriatric child with dementia.
Add to this the longevity of the deployment. Most world militaries are very timid at exerting their big expensive assets at full strength unless its an actual war because that wears them out really fast. America is the only country that does this regularly. In other words, the deployment time for a carrier group is pretty well set in stone with some wiggle room. They know how long they can keep it up at full activity.
It’s not even a matter of supplies, its a giant steel city floating on salt water firing jets into the sky shooting down potential threats when it cant evade them. This is a structure under stress that can’t be fixed with a few nuts and bolts. There are parts that can only be overhauled at a port that have probably run long overdue.
The personnel problem is oddly the smallest. They could rotate people easily on the supply ships, if the whole shitshow werent run by such huge assholes.
- Comment on Easy Delivery Co. I'll just be a little car driving a kei truck around a mountain town. 2 months ago:
Fire emblem three houses. So pretty awesome as lady Byleth, depending on the choice i make. But no matter what im a super powered advisor to a world leader witha hit girlfriend (Dorothea).
- Comment on What do Centrists know about electability? 2 months ago:
You dont understand, we cant afford to campaign on popular social welfare, or popular taxes on rich people, or protecting those popular rights you people are always going on about, or preventing the very unpopular corruption, and we definitely cant capaign on the very popular subject of the epstein files. Right now we have to worry about electability by showing moderate republicans we can reach across the aisle.
- Comment on We might soon have the technology to reach other star systems 2 months ago:
To be fair, we already have the technology to reach other star systems, just not in any useful time frame.
- Comment on What's one cliche "Moral of the story" in media that you hate more than anything else? 2 months ago:
There are a lot of movies in the 50s and 60s that werent so much war propaganda as they were soldier’s experience. Since their audience was people who’d been through war already. You see a certain style of humor of soldiers not heroically leaping into battle, but desperatwly trying to avoid fighting entirely, and when their is fighting trying as hard as they can to survive more than amything else. Certainly there were propaganda films then that did treat soldiers as heroes, also fuck john wayne, but its in the 70s and 80s that those types of movies disappeared and all war movies became heroic, and even non-war action movies became pro-war.
- Comment on Pentagone leader Peter Hegseth in the Capitol. This is what power looks like. 3 months ago:
I just see a douche surrounded by pigs.
- Comment on Coping Mechanisms 3 months ago:
I comment on shit posts!
- Comment on Do you think that Trump is the most hated U.S. president? 3 months ago:
Bush 2 was a failson who was largely well intentioned, but also had no idea what his dad’s friends were doing in his cabinet. His second term he started taking a more proactive role when he realized how he was responsible for a lot of the fuckery going on around him. At the same time, Iraq was all his baby. I don’t say this to absolve him of anything, he was a shit president, but he was about as shitty as any other nepobaby that managed to fail into high office.
- Comment on Examples of roles where actors from Star Trek give better performances than they did on Star Trek? 4 months ago:
- Comment on The real deal 4 months ago:
Yes, im checking for cracks, but when i found a good carton? Yeah, that’s the good shit. It’s all there. We doin this deal.
In my head.
- Comment on In the US it's Father's Day weekend, so happy Father's Day not just to you American dads but to all you dads wherever you are. 4 months ago:
You know you start one or two (possibly more) apocalypses centered around your severely neglected son piloting a giant proto-being super robot that traumatizes him nearly every time he gets into it all in the hopes of turning your wife-clone daughter who you spend creepy amounts of alone time with into a conduit for contacting your dead wife who’s soul may or may not have been absorbed into said robot thereby recreating her into a death goddess who absorbs the souls of everyone on earth suddenly everybody thinks your a bad father.
