Lizzardspawn
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Lizzardspawn
22hr ago
Ahh fair
Lizzardspawn
1d ago
Missile launches. They way they use them - without plan, goal, control or success makes the analogy apt.
Lizzardspawn
1d ago
Aren't they at greater risk at the beginning when Iran's ejaculation capabilities were not yet degraded and they could reasonably overload whatever temporary AA the marines were able to build at the island?
Lizzardspawn
1d ago
Right now - I would say that I wouldn't recommend anything of the middle east. But the best places I have been there are Erbil and Muscat. Dubai is Sin City - anything goes if you have money. Didn't like it that much. There is no reason to go to Saudi Arabia unless you are muslim. Doha is ok, but kinda boring.
Lizzardspawn
1d ago
The best thing that Trump is doing is destroying those international travesties. If we are lucky by the end of his term we may get to the point where "rule based order" is so damaged that even eager democrat president may be unable to salvage it.
Lizzardspawn
1d ago
No substance, but Doha doesn't try to suffocate you with opulence. It is built on slave labor and not a good place - not sure how to tell it - a month in Dubai - and you will be tired, a month in Doha - you will be rested.
Lizzardspawn
1d ago
Except Qatar is quite light on glitz. Emirates are all glitz and flash. I have flown both and spend quite a lot of time in the lounges. Qatar color scheme is more subdued - calming purple instead of gold everywhere. Even the music is better. The personal are quite good at giving you whiskey and cashew and getting the fuck out until you land. They don't pester you every five minutes with "do you need anything sir?" They don't wake you up about seatbelts while you are sleeping. They let you sleep almost to the touchdown. The first class lounge is also better if you care about comfort - quieter, calming.
Emirates are built on the idea that the luxury must be displayed and consumed, qatar - that it needn't be.
Lizzardspawn
1d ago
Kill lots of people is absolutely valid war goal. The thing is US and Israel not so slow down the killings. Which they seem to have slowed down in the second week.
Lizzardspawn
1d ago
And the gulf countries have enough money to have couple of airplanes and many drones patrolling 24/7
Lizzardspawn
1d ago
Why risk ground forces' lives by taking them earlier?
Lizzardspawn
1d ago
the Trump-class "Battleship"
It is big, but isn't this thing a bit light on the firepower?
Lizzardspawn
1d ago
Dubai is cringe all the way. Simple comparison between Qatar airlines and Emirates shows everything wrong with the dubai mindset.
Lizzardspawn
2d ago
No, don't ask about why ship sizes don't seem to match up with what you'd think based on their "Frigate vs. Destroyer vs. Cruiser" classification.
Isn't classification about what they do and not how big they are. Same as with tanks - which could lead to heavy tank sometimes being lighter than medium ones.
Lizzardspawn
2d ago
Vance's chances are high, but the most important thing I think is Republicans to have real primaries. It is best if they learn from the other party's mistakes.
Lizzardspawn
2d ago
So about Iran - a lot of places and few times here people mention that IRGC are well trained, motivated and such. Usually from people that are skeptical for one reason or another about the war. I am sure they utilize the lion's share of the Iranian resources available, but the evidence of them being competent is scant at best. They consistently fail to protect people and infrastructure, their proxies are also not terribly effective. So where does their good reputation come from?
Lizzardspawn
3d ago
The death of a person is a tragedy, the death of a million is statistics.
Small precision weapons lead to PR nightmare when not hitting the target, or hitting something else or any other failure modes. MOABs don't have that problem.
If you are paying the same price no matter the bodycount, why bother reducing it?
Lizzardspawn
3d ago
America invented mass education with the GI bill.
I didn't knew that Otto Von Bismarck was alive in 1946 ...
Lizzardspawn
3d ago
What I meant is that if the average US missile was not 400kg of tnt, but 4 tons clustered and the smallest impact was flattening quarter square mile, then people would not have to complain about imprecise targeting.
Lizzardspawn
3d ago
Ok - what is the acceptable rate of school situated in former military barracks bombings in such a massive campaign. If the answer is zero - you put such burdensome rules of engagement that make US victory impossible. If it is one - we are right at the tolerance border.
Iran hasn't send the US list of civilian object and military objects with coordinates verified by international bodies that they are true. US is forced to operate half blind. Iran itself does way more indiscriminate targeting from what I have observed. It is just that their weapons are shitty.
War is hell. Mistakes happen.
a move that has degraded America’s ability to protect civilians amid its largest air campaign in decades.
It is not America's job to protect civilians.
“It just points even more to recklessness in this, in the entire planning and execution of this campaign, the fact that they don’t have any idea.”
Only 8 US dead so far. The campaign is not reckless.
At this point I think that the US doctrine should change to using many dumb bombs. And just say - we don't have the capacity to ensure civilian safety in one kilometer away from a military target and let the other government sort it out.
Why not do some victim blaming though - first putting a school next to military base is stupid, operating the school when knowing war is imminent is stupider. Treating it as just another day in paradise is stupider still. Putting a school in former barracks is once again not a smart move. And it is not as if Iran makes sure to give US information where the real juicy targets are.
here are quotes that are from Al Jazeera article (hardly us friendly outlet)
On Saturday morning, the first day of the school week in Iran, US-Israeli strikes began on the country. Air raids started hitting various sites in the city of Minab and Hormozgan province.
But life in general was proceeding in a near-normal manner; children went to their schools, and photos and videos showed almost normal traffic on the roads surrounding the school.
Returning to the school in Minab, testimony by Shiva Amilairad, a representative of the Coordinating Council of Iranian Teachers’ Trade Unions, to Time magazine indicates that the decision to evacuate the school was made as soon as the US-Israeli attacks began. But, she said, the time between the warning issued by Iranian authorities (after detecting attacks on the city) and the moment the missile struck was far too short, and most parents were unable to reach the school to pick up their daughters.
At some point the best way to keep civilians from harm is not to entangle civilian and military infrastructure together. And what kind of evacuation is sitting in place waiting for parents to pick kids up. Evacuation is get the fuck out of the building and run away.
There should be investigation, and people should be demoted - but it should be for wasting valuable asset and putting the pilot's life and plane at risk for no good reason.
Lizzardspawn
4d ago
Under Siege is awesomely pulpy. You have great performances from Tommy Lee Jones, Gary Busey, Erika Eleniak's naked breasts and somewhat passable from Segal.
Lizzardspawn
4d ago
So High Potential seems hell bent on winning the TV show with fastest decrease of quality of writing. Last couple of episodes feel weird and writing is plain terrible. And it was the one of the few series that I actually liked.
shaheds
Shaded are total and utter shit. Russia needed almost 3 years to make something usable out of them. The latest Gerans seem to be doing well in Ukraine, but they are so heavily modified - there is almost nothing in them.
If America attacks, they go for the jugular and attack Gulf oilfields directly and devastatingly.
There is nothing shown so far to imply that they have the capacity. So far - every launcher they use is single use only.
Lizzardspawn
4d ago
China is in no position to go to war, especially after finding out from Venezuela and Iran that Chinese radars can’t beat American stealth.
Dunno man - they seem to work pretty realiably. The moment one of them explodes, you know there is F-35 nearby.
So how did LLMs impressed you this week? My case - I had lost original 3mf, but had OrcaSlicer temp folder, which ironically orca can't open. I ask codex-cli to try and reconstruct a proper 3mf. For my astonishment is did on the second try.
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