Mantergeistmann
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Mantergeistmann
4d ago
When you put a bird-feeder in your yard, you don't get to complain when it attracts birds.
I mean, I complain about the starlings. I like most of the birds that show up.
Mantergeistmann
5d ago
I work in a... medium? (Maybe 1000-ish people per location per city; no building above three or four stories) that's insanely high trust (vetted engineers) and yet...
Mantergeistmann
5d ago
At least we got to read weekly educational flyers posted in the bathroom about Testing on the Toilet (alongside other flyers asking engineers to remember to flush...)
Is it something about engineers, or just people in general? We had signs plastered everywhere in the bathrooms reminding our engineers "don't flush things down the toilet that aren't toilet paper, you know how often it breaks and that's the cause, what's wrong with you?"
Mantergeistmann
5d ago
It's entirely possible the dude repeated a combination of sounds back at the officer without really understanding what he was saying
To quote My Cousin Vinny, "I shot the clerk!?"
Mantergeistmann
6d ago
I've been tempted to recommend that my company (which makes a very big deal about LGBTQ equality) just go to completely gender-neutral bathrooms all around, but I feel like it'd be stirring up far too much trouble (even if I personally would be unironically in favor of that decision, so it's not entirely a bad-faith recommendation), and I'm not ready for an early retirement.
Mantergeistmann
6d ago
Yes, actually, I will.
Mantergeistmann
6d ago
Ah, yes. The Comanche, according to wikipedia were "nomadic traders" up until... "As European Americans encroached on their territory, the Comanche waged war on the settlers and raided their settlements, as well as those of neighboring Native American tribes."
Mantergeistmann
6d ago
Re-adjust a bit, but not too far given that the source is The Daily Caller.
Mantergeistmann
6d ago
I would expect gang member conviction to carry a higher burden of proof than asylum proceedings, personally...
Mantergeistmann
6d ago
I liked the way Admiral Richardson discussed it:
the term “denial,” as in “anti-access/area denial” is too often taken as a fait accompli, when it is, more accurately, an aspiration. Often, I get into A2AD discussions accompanied by maps with red arcs extending off the coastlines of countries like China or Iran. The images imply that any military force that enters the red area faces certain defeat – it’s a “no-go” zone! But the reality is much more complex. Achieving a successful engagement requires completion of a complex chain of events, each link of which is vulnerable and can be interrupted. Those arcs represent danger, to be sure, and the Navy is going to be very thoughtful and well prepared as we address them, but the threats are not insurmountable.
Mantergeistmann
6d ago
I also like supercavitating torpedoes because I have not put my inner eight-year-old to death.
The trick is to age up to an inner 18-year-old, and enjoy Arpeggio of Blue Steel.
However, I am not sure China has gotten their submarine force in good enough shape for it to be a solid option for them.
Which, I think, is a big part of why the USN is more concerned with Russian submarines, and why they're still confident the death of the carrier is yet again over-predicted: as long as they can avoid being torpedoed, everything else they can figure out some way to deal with, even if that's just limping back to port after taking a hit.
Mantergeistmann
7d ago
Personally, I think more about torpedoes. Some are very long range, with impressively hard to defeat terminal guidance, and they are absolutely ship-killers in terms of payload/mechanism, rather than just mission-killers.
Mantergeistmann
8d ago
Because as soon as you declare one story to be lies, it's assumed that you confirm any story you don't explicity denounce. It's the old sitcom trope of guessing a surprise: after you've said "nope, wrong" a few times, as soon as you switch to "I'm not saying" you've given everything away.
Mantergeistmann
8d ago
I am more impressed and amused by Soviet and later Russian engineering than Chinese engineering
The current analyst opinion is that in submarines at least, Russia's are far more capable whereas China's building capacity is unmatched. That may very well simply be a reflection of previous national priorities and decades of experience, though.
Mantergeistmann
8d ago
I'm not going to say NPR is anti-Trump because I don't know one way or the other
I would say that NPR leans strongly anti-Trump, and is willing to perform standard journalism misrepresentation/spin/story selection in line with that. Outright falsehood creation using fake sources? Probably not.
Mantergeistmann
9d ago
No, you'd be amazed at the number of people who think he was legally here, including a right to work.
Mantergeistmann
11d ago
So the obvious question to me here is: how do you feel about transubstantiation?
Mantergeistmann
13d ago
right wing administrations are dominated by conservative Catholics
Catholics? Really? Not protestants/evangelicals?
Mantergeistmann
13d ago
You'd think the overfishing is something Conservatives could absolutely be brought on board with. I know a fair few in favour of protecting our environment (but not climate change initiatives, since they think those are all just an excuse for socialist economic transition), and given that China is one of the biggest overfishers, especially in other nations' waters... feels like a failure of messaging more than anything else.
Mantergeistmann
15d ago
Yeah, military procurement is mind boggling -- sometimes for good reasons, sometimes not so good. Even a single missile is costing at least $100k, sometimes more than a million. And that's only procurement, not the costs of fuel or personnel or maintenance or infrastructure.
Mantergeistmann
15d ago
For calibration, $892 million is less than two large US Coast Guard cutters. But it's definitely easy to not think about just how large numbers/fundings are if you don't work with them on a regular basis, I'll agree with that.
Mantergeistmann
16d ago
I in turn would love to see some story with anti-slavery campaign - feel free to recommend me some.
Just it should be serious conflict, not "everyone claps and praises to moral superiority of main character, slavery instantly disappears"
I think the Honor Harrington series and short stories get there eventually.
Mantergeistmann
18d ago
I suppose the assumption is that companies will raise prices on imported goods dollar-for-dollar with the tariff increases.
Mantergeistmann
18d ago
Responding to myself: I've found the source of the $5,000 claim I've seen floating around: The average tariff burden is estimated by dividing the total expected tariff revenue per year, $600 billion, by the total number of U.S. households in 2024, 132 million
I'm assuming, as has been said elsewhere, that this sort of math is not done with sales/corporate taxes or any other sort of tax increase. At least not by the same people.
Why is the Pope Predictor bullish on Robert Prevost?
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