Lizzardspawn
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Lizzardspawn
2d ago
Unless he got paid for speaking pro Russian propaganda - I am not sure how the dude in Iowa will be held responsible. You are totally allowed to spew enemy propaganda. Just not commercially.
Lizzardspawn
2d ago
Korea and Vietnam happened during the height of the Cold War, when the world was perceived as bipolar. In a way - some losses here and there were baked in. After the 90s (or 80s - I don't think anyone took seriously the USSR in 1985) - we live in Pax Americana. And one of the things that underpins Pax Americana is that US has mightier military than the next 20 combined.
And while Afghanistan and Iraq could be considered as political losses - the US forces never lost a battle there. I am not even sure that they lost many during the korean and vietnam wars.
Whereas leaving Iran in the hands of the islamic revolution after such fireworks display will be a first of a kind post Cold war.
Lizzardspawn
2d ago
First - Trump will get Congress on board. He may have to pay yuuge price, but even the biggest doves and biggest morons in Congress know that US trying to overthrow regime and failing means the empire is over and there will be many more challengers in the years to come. There is reason why Russia is hellbent on finishing the SMO on their own terms. If you want to know how international relationships work - go watch the Godfather. So far USA haven't failed in overthrowing a regime after committing the needed forces.
Second - speaking against the special military operation is not treason.
Third - the best time to have dialogue about the war was before and during the protests. The second best was after them. The third best is now.
Fourth - the year is still young. There is chance that the US may actually win with low bodycount.
Lizzardspawn
2d ago
them with less corrupt, inept, and irresponsible leadership.
I have a news for you - there isn't any. It's neocons all the way down. At least Trump with adventures - he keeps like Clinton only in the air and with low US body count.
Really, Trump II has really cemented my opinion that we need to gut the executive
The Congress has spent the better part of a century removing power from itself and piling it onto the executive. Why do you think that it will be easily reversed when the Dems are hungry to do the imperial presidency too.
There are no people left in the congress willing to defend the commons.
Lizzardspawn
2d ago
Rest of Europe also include Russia which traditionally is Serbia ally. So no matter what definition of Europe you use - by square kilometers or by headcount, unless this definition is like the Metal bands definition of Europe when declaring Europe tour at the time - aka what is west of Berlin, the bombing was not universally applauded.
Lizzardspawn
2d ago
In the balkans it was 50/50 aporoval at best.
Lizzardspawn
2d ago
As one of those Europeans that cheered up about it - it is not completely made up. Seeing the hegemon humiliated and hurt felt nice after the Serbian bombings.
Lizzardspawn
3d ago
The funniest meme so far from Iran:
Special military operation is just situationship in military speak
Lizzardspawn
3d ago
In modern parlance this is mostly peaceful
Lizzardspawn
3d ago
Except the current clusterfuck has nothing to do with the question. It is a bit like saying that Poland and Russia hate each other because of the Schism of 1054
Lizzardspawn
4d ago
You do realize that at any given moment in Dubai's airport first and business class lounges there are couple of thousand of important-ish people from all corners of the world. Killing them for one or other reason will not make friends in their home countries as a rule of thumb.
Lizzardspawn
4d ago
If you need skilled workforce for manufacturing you fucked up royally during the design phase. Same for other stuff. And I keep hearing about those mythic rare earths and military and yet no one explains why they are needed in such quantities that to be a bottleneck compared to the obscene amounts we already throw away with the disposable vapes. And the biggest producer of semiconductors on earth will bend over backwards to allow us to produce more of those needed for interceptors if we just promise them to sell them some at any price.
Also, having quality uncertainties in something as critical as interceptors is a horrible idea even if you can manufacture a lot of them; having a somewhat accurate idea of your capabilities is crucial to war strategy.
And this is why any competent design is based on the assumption that everything will break and not work when you need it most, this is why stuff needs to be able to be produced at scale, with untrained personnel, sometimes under terrible conditions. Not treating any such system as a artisanal wunderwaffen.
With modern computers, cad cam, electronics - we should be able to design faster, iterate way faster, and produce more and cheaper. And that is obviously not true, at least until the war hits home - both Ukraine and Russia seems to be able to wage full scale next gen war with what could roughly be describes as US military toilet paper budget.
Lizzardspawn
4d ago
If we produced more the cost per unit will fall dramatically. If we produced more we wouldn't care that much about quality because we could afford to shoot more of them. If we decided that patriot is the only air defense system we will need - and our allies too - once again we should have produced more interceptors - so once again we get into the economy of scale.
Lizzardspawn
4d ago
You are explaining me why it will be hard to R&D. Not why once you developed it you can only produce 600 and not 600000 per year.
Lizzardspawn
4d ago
Hitting DXB lounges is very high risk endeavor with limited payoff. If your goal is to get countries that are otherwise neutral, not to be - this is the correct approach.
Lizzardspawn
4d ago
The current rate of production of PAC-3 is 600 per year, and THAAD is even more anaemic - at 96 per year (though Lockheed has stated it wants to step it up to 400, it's unclear if it can)
Can anyone explain why we live in a world in which we can scale any electronics but the military ones? Seems like no one including Russia can build missiles at scale any more. I am not specialist, but there is nothing in a rocket - tube, sensors array, cpu, explosive and propellant. Nothing of which is that complicated or with right design should require special labor or equipment.
Lizzardspawn
4d ago
Who would be supplying the munitions in this case? I don't think anyone except Iran want trouble in the Hormuz?
The people with developed world standards of living have extremely high pain aversion. You need one rogue Iranian with an homebrew missile to scare everyone passing trough the Strait. Even if basic arithmetic says that the airforces of the gulf states will make sure that any site will be able to launch only one.
Lizzardspawn
6d ago
Iran so far is so thoroughly infiltrated by western intelligence that I don't think they even have the capacity to do something without being preemptively wiped.
Lizzardspawn
7d ago
So there is as usual backlash against OpenAI and purity spiral going on. Due to the pentagon deal. So people are canceling their openai premium accounts. Here is the problem though - OpenAI loses money on those accounts. As is claude.
So here is the question - how to punish someone that subsides a service you heavily use?
Lizzardspawn
7d ago
That is without boots on the ground. Why occupation, when assassination sends the same message. We just blow up from above the leaders.
Lizzardspawn
8d ago
The American public just elected a government on the premise that they would focus on reducing inflation and avoid foreign adventurism.
Americans love display of military might as long as the bodybags are few. They don't want forever wars. So far in Iran war US has lost less people that they lose in Ukraine in a month where they don't even have presence ( there is this weird pattern where Russians by mistake and incompetence hit a civilian building, and couple of days later there is some crash in the USA or allies in which some people die).
The promise is fairly easy - Iran is prohibited for possessing air defenses, except on the borders with pakistan, afghanistan and iraq. US inspectors have unlimited access to all Iran infrastructure. Iran, SA, UAE and the gulf states pay couple of billion for funding US bases there ready to punish Iran.
Lizzardspawn
9d ago
Once Iranian AA defense is disabled - from there US and Israel can afford to kill officials until only those willing to unconditionally surrender are left. It may take months or years. But it will be quite cheap and affordable. And if USA and Israel have functioning brains - will move the war to drones.
Lizzardspawn
9d ago
Why do you think it is impossible to create good Terminator and Predator sequels past part 2 (I stand firm that predator 2 is underappreciated)
Lizzardspawn
10d ago
Time is an ingredient. Usually you are able to trade hands on for hands off time. Sous vide and pressure cooker. Sous vide - allows you to have a lot of protein ready for finishing. I usually have couple of beef skirtsteaks (24h at 56C), pork tenderloin (56, 4h) and shoulders (70C - 24h) ready to go. If your fridge have proper cold storage (under 4C) they keep forever. Since vacuuming one or ten is the same effort - saves a lot of time doing it in bulk.
Stove top pressure cooker - legumes in half an hour, perfect foolproof rice every time, perfectly boiled eggs, for a weekday dinner - throw some tough beef, carrot, onion, celery, wine and stock. go away for two hours - shred beef and finish under the broiler if feeling fancy, discard the veggies, concentrate the stock a bit.
Almost no knead bread - if you plan on fermenting for more than 12 hours minimal kneading is needed. Good protocol is - gather ingredients, mix for a short while in the mixer (or mix with a stick and then do couple of stretch and folds every 30 min for 2 hours), ferment overnight, shape and throw in the fridge, bake when dinner is ready.
Deserts - lava cake is surprisingly easy for the fanciness - nytimes recipe is spot on.
And the Israeli bots are suing their government over unpaid bills.
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